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Re: [ARSCLIST] Is DSD really "open"??
It would be great if Mr. Veldhuis could post his thoughts on the ARSCLIST!
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John Spencer
http://www.bridgemediasolutions.com/
> From: Parker Dinkins <parker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:12:23 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Is DSD really "open"??
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> on 7/7/04 3:24 PM US/Central, James Lindner at jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> I saw a vendor presentation yesterday where it was claimed that the DSD
>> standard was "open". I was wondering if that was true. Meaning - are
>> licensing fees involved if you use a DSD software based tool. Is DSD "open
>> source"? Is the file format fully disclosed - and can anyone write a DSD
>> file and not have any restrictions or licensing fees?
>>
>> I had viewed DSD as a proprietary format and was wondering if this is true.
>>
>> Also - does anyone know of software based tools for DSD - meaning a PCM to
>> DSD file converter in software? I know that they are built into DAW but I am
>> more interested in batch oriented tools for larger servers so I would need a
>> true software based set of utilities. Do they exist??
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> I would contact:
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> Henk Veldhuis
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> Parker Dinkins
> MasterDigital Corporation
> CD Mastering + Audio Restoration
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