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From: skrbec@motcid.UUCP (Brad Skrbec)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: songs name on CD's
Message-ID: <5623@melon5.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 18:51:06 GMT
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iacovou@cs.umn.edu (Danny Iacovou) writes:

>In <8bK4Pvq00awUEME0ZD@andrew.cmu.edu> ld2c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Lloyd A. Dye) writes:

>>I don't want to confuse the issue, but I have _heard_ that entire lyrics
>>lists have been placed on "empty tracks" on certain music CD's and that
>>in the fairly near future, CD players may have the technology added to
>>read these tracks as they read the music and "dump" it to an LCD
>>display. I'm not too sure about this info, but I've heard it from
>>several different sources (not just hearsay) and do believe that the
>>idea and technology are sound. Your opinions? Any help or added
>>heartache?

>   so the technology is there, would you sit in front of a cd player
>   watching the words of the current song scroll by the screen? I wouldn't.
>   I think they should work on making the cd players that can output to
>   tv more affordable. I forget their name off hand, but the Lou Reed 
>   "New York" cd can play the words in about 5 languages (depending on
>   what chanel the tv is set on).

What I would like to see with this technology is a menu driven
jukebox style setup.  Lets say you have a cd changer with 6 disks.
You put in any 6 disks in any order, and get a menu of songs and
play times.  You then check off the songs you want to hear in the
order you want to hear them, and then you have the evening's music
programmed and don't have to touch it again.

I hate the current methods of programming changers.  If you've got
fairly large contents on each CD, it can take half an hour to program
a full set.

Even better would be a connection to a PC which would allow you do
do anything you wanted with the information.

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