Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!sandell From: sandell@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gregory Sandell) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Adjust-Speed CD player?? Message-ID: <8909@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 21 Sep 89 18:49:51 GMT References: <6028@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <89255.105143P85025@BARILVM.BITNET> <7767@microsoft.UUCP> <89264.171306P85025@BARILVM.BITNET> Reply-To: sandell@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Gregory Sandell) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 20 In article <89264.171306P85025@BARILVM.BITNET> P85025@BARILVM.BITNET (Doron Shikmoni) writes: > >Others suggested to drop samples (to change output speed). To change >by 1%, drop 1 out of each 100. Of course, this is doable; but what >will happen to the music? Try to draw the new curve when you drop >30% of the samples (or double 30% of them to achieve the opposite >effect). Is this hi-fi? Not to my opinion... > I think that the choice of putting speed-variation option on a CD-player should not be constrained by the requirement that it be hi-fi. What are people going to be using the feature for, anyway? My particular use, since I'm a musician, is that I'd want to use the feature to SLOW DOWN the music in order to transcribe or learn by ear what a musician is playing. Other people may want to play spoken CDs at higher speed so they can assimilate information quicker. In both of these cases, I don't think the user really is going to care that the audio quality is distinguishable from normal playback. Greg Sandell