The book that came with the DCC cable (or was it the recorder?) explained how the software worked. It’s pretty well-written if I remember correctly. In Dutch of course. I haven’t looked at it for a while. I suppose we should scan it some day.
It would be awesome if DCC-Studio would automatically split up files or assign labels, based on markers on the tape. Unfortunately it can’t do this although I would think the engineers probably wanted to do this (as you say, it does pop up a window with all the information during the recording). I guess they just ran out of time.
It also doesn’t record markers based on the markers in a file. The only way to record markers is to split a track into multiple TRK files, and give each of them a name, then make a compilation tape. I have some ideas on doing this automatically in my future DCCE tool but I’m focusing on hardware reverse-engineering right now.
This sounds like a mechanical problem of the recorder. It’s definitely not a software problem.
That means the ground connection of your headphones is not connected. You’re hearing the difference between the left and right channel so everything that’s in the middle is gone. As Ralf said, it may be caused by plugging a headset with a microphone into the recorder. If you plug the wired remote control into the recorder, and plug the headset into the wired remote, that might fix it. Also try different headphones, preferably a pair without microphone. Or plug in a splitter that lets you connect 2 headphones. Or anything that has 3 rings on the connector instead of 4, really.
Ha, you have one of those super fast Gigahertz-plus computers LOL.
On my Pentium at 150MHz it took a whole night to convert a WAV to TRK/MPP in 1995. I only did it once.
Seriously: DCC2WAV is annoyingly slow, for both TRK->WAV as well as WAV->TRK. It’s better to use the “save as single audio track” option (I’m not sure what the name is but I think it’s in file manager), and then use my DCCU program to convert the MPP to MP1. Then you can use any audio converter to convert it to something else, or use an audio editor such as WavePad to edit the audio. WavePad can load the MP1 file without conversion to WAV. (*)
Vice versa, you can also use DCCU to convert an MP1 to MPP/LVL/TRK (the LVL will be empty because I haven’t figured out how to generate VU levels yet). And you can use MP2ENC to convert WAV to MP1. See links in a previous post.
MP2ENC is much faster than DCC2WAV, I think on my 300MHz Pentium 2 laptop it works faster than real-time. On my Windows 10 system it converts the files almost instantly.
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(*) At the time of this writing, there is a bug in the WavePad MP1 encoder (and also other MP1 encoders by NCH Software) which makes it skip the first frame of the MP1 file. I reported this as a bug months ago, but haven’t heard from them.
). Probably not too critical, as it’s all relatively straight forward, but who knows, there might be some hidden gems to be uncovered.
