Re: Volume commands

Marcus Brinkmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.netmd.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:30:36PM +0000, Pete Bentley wrote:
> On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 09:23 Europe/London, Marcus Brinkmann 
> wrote:
> >I have no reason to believe that this is part of NetMD.  The only 
> >chance for
> >it to be part of te software we know today ius via the vendor command
> >interface, which is also used for recordings.
> 
> Could it be that things like volume settings, EQ, Line Out vs Headphones
> are stored in the EEPROM?  I don't recall these ever being reset if the
> battery goes flat, but I could well be wrong.

Mmh, interesting idea.  It seems to make sense.  It's easy to test of
course.

> Anyway, if they're in the EEPROM then I would guess the NetMD commands
> that PatchWriter uses would be able to alter them......

It's also a scary idea, as the setup of the EEPROM is not really portable
across devices :)  Furthermore, it would remain to be seen if changes to the
eeprom would be picked up by the player at real time.

Nevertheless it is an inspiring thought ;)

Thanks,
Marcus

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