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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: MASRe: MAS
From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:11:38 +0000 http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/news722.html "Micronas is unable to ship its MAS3587F to the United States because the chip, an encoder/decoder designed to support the ripping of t racks from a CD, violates the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, von Janecek said." How interesting! ...Where is the Neo manufactured? At 07:13 08/01/04, you wrote: >I don't know how much these will help, but i decided to do some digging. >Some of it has chip data, others have some interesting talk about the chip: > >http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/fli/fli115.html >http://www.micronas.com/products/documentation/consumer/mas3587f/index.php >http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/news722.html >http://rt.cs.tu-berlin.de/lehre/aes/intermetall-mas3587f.pdf > >-Fox > > > >"Matthew P. OReilly" <moreilly_at_moreilly.com> wrote in message >news:MPBBJKNKCFICFDCNLBNDGEJNDPAA.moreilly_at_moreilly.com... > > Sorry to resurrect an old thread (at least I changed the subject line...), > > but I'm just catching up on 4000+ emails and ran across this. > > > > I have some questions: > > 1)What sort of money are we talking here? $10^y, y=? > > 2)How could we be sure that purchasing/licensing the requisite info from > > Micronas, or the experience of someone with access to their docs, wouldn't > > violate the terms of the agreement for the licensing or conversely the > > license under which Rockbox is published? > > 3)In light of the points brought out in this thread, what do we see as the > > big benefits of having access to the MAS programming? > > > > I'm all for contributing, but I think we need to know what we're getting > > into here before we start looking at this seriously. > > > > Thx > > Matt > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se]On > > Behalf Of BlueChip > > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:42 PM > > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se > > Subject: Re: Re[2]: play WAV? > > > > > > I currently have every intention of writing the code myself - given that > > embedded code is love and living. Sadly, however, _money_ is not >something > > I can offer to the project :( > > > > So given that in this context I am classified as a 'developer' if there is > > anybody who cannot talk to their friends about this, all/any cash >donations > > will be greatfully received. If this is a serious option, then I will >look > > into the precise cost involved :) > > > > One post, two great ideas - cheers Donaldson, > > > > BC > > > > > From reading the micronas data sheet all you have to do is pay them > > >a nince chunk of money and you can purchase the development kit for the > > >DSP. I don't know what limitations are on the dsp code but I'm guessing > > >you could load the binary form into a freewareish project. So what > > >I'm saying is, if you want wav support that bad pay one of the developers > > >enough money to purchase an development kit. > > > > > >Donaldson > > > > > > >> > > Back in the early days of Rockbox we found a guy who actually had done > > "microcode" coding on the MAS and we emailed him to ask for help, but he > > declined as we couldn't offer him any money and he didn't feel like >helping > > us > > for the fun of it. > > (snipped from one of Daniel's posts) > > << > > > > Received on 2004-01-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |