Comments on: Mailing list recap

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:07:58 +0000

nah, if you mean clean it, then i doubt that’s the problem. it was in my pocket playing away nicely, i went into woolworths to buy easter eggs (86p!!! :oD ), pressed stop while i did, got bored deciding which egg to buy so i put my hand in my pocket to press play again. it fizzled, it popped, it rattled, it rocked, then finally it just stopped. something like that. didnt know what it was at first so i just shook it a bit. then got home and noticed the "no disc" messages.

yeah, i saw some lavod 512 rechargable ones at aria.co.uk for about ?20 a while ago but they dissapeared fast. ended up doing some intensive readup of players/types/models + reviews on tuesday and eventually just got the one that would let me play sonic. heh. actually it was the only one i could find other than a samsung 512 for ?50 that actually recorded stuff, let alone having some say it actually did it "well". but ?90 for a 20 gig mp3/wma player come linux compatible hard drive come modable master system emulator come divx/xvid video player come sound recorder come photo viewer ain’t too bad i recon. now if only someone would port rockbox to it :o)

By: Denyer

Denyer — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:39:14 +0000

Assume you’ve tried the usual cotton bud / white alcohol rinse? Once that stops working, it’s usually time to give up, on laser issues.

I got a decent enough generic 512Mb player including delivery for under ?20 — MP3 players with decent recording, on the other hand, I haven’t seen or investigated much.

By: Denyer

Denyer — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:41:14 +0000

Spare as in "take apart and try to persuade to work"? Sure, if it’s not more than a few quid in postage…

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:06:08 +0000

noooo, i didn’t :oD and yet i still look a fool :o\

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:25:51 +0000

(if it don’t sell i’ll send it over to you ;o) )

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:23:41 +0000

Ohh… I’ve put it up on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-Minidisc-Player-MZ-N710-Spares-Repair-Parts_W0QQitemZ9712501615QQcategoryZ15056QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
?3 postage, 99p start - the listing says more but it just ain’t recognizing discs when they’re put in. Think it’s a laser thing, and all i’ve read about that is "don’t bother - spensive - sony repair center - ???s". Anyway, getting an mp3 player/recorder now.

Someone *cough*alex*cough* might be interested in the (now unusable) minidiscs i’m putting up on sunday though. A couple still have souncheck / gig recordings of the crimea on them. Not that they’re much different from the mp3s I’ll gladly send, but neat nontheless.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:46:49 +0000

Did I just spell "spair" wrong, twice, just then? Oh my…

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:45:47 +0000

nettransport… rrrr… it stopped working for me and wouldn’t even start up again, i mean *nothing*, click the exe and nowt happens… anyway, I use HiDownload now, seems a bit less complicated too. I’ll grab it when i’ve got a minute spare.

You don’t need a spare non-functioning minidisc player/recorder do you?

By: Denyer

Denyer — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:25:52 +0000

Dunno, but it was most likely linked by a site whose review you put up.

NetTransport will grab the stream quite happily… it’s about 21Mb / 30mins.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:40:39 +0000

>>there’s a stream of the whole show here

why did i not know this? ahhhhh…. (cheers mr)