DMX Adult Contemporary May 2007 CD-I EZAAC0705 11820 09-900014 (ProDisc)

Another item in the Red Robin AEI/DMX collection. This is a generic Adult Contemporary ProDisc-series library (i.e. not containing advertising) and was heard in Red Robin restaurants, and many others, around the USA in 2007.

This was the next-to-last ProDisc programme Red Robin received. EZAAC0707 was the last, but I don't have the original disc since it went bye-bye along with the Prodisc DS CD-I player in August. All properties that had still been receiving CD-I service up to that point were converted to Profusion computers (the one I was at had a Profusion D, though other properties may have had others), which were simply off-the-shelf custom desktop PCs running a version of Gentoo Linux, with the audio on ordinary ISO9660 CD-ROM encoded in low-bitrate Vorbis format and compressed (why?) using something like BZ2 or LZH. The D, in particular, was DMX's overcomplicated answer to Muzak's simpler, MP2-based Encompass XD/CM products. DMX's legacy CD-I product was ultimately discontinued in the beginning of 2008, though Muzak (which had been established much longer, and had a much larger customer base than AEI/DMX) kept theirs in place until at least 2012, if not later.

Folio: Pop

Library: Adult Contemporary

Series: ProDisc

Programme number: ZAAC0705

Production code: 11820 09-900014

Production date: 2007 Mar 07

Released: April 2007

Programme start: May 2007

Disc type: base case

Audio format: level B-stereo

Programme blocks: 4

Notes

DOWNLOADING

The downsampled 32000 Hz 320 Kb MP3 blocks were manually encoded and uploaded by me, from files derived from the disc's 37800 Hz ADPCM audio. These files were encoded using the "--resample 32000 -q0" option in LAME 3.99.5 (Linux). This is because 37800 Hz is not specified in the MP3 standard, and LAME's default behaviour is to downsample to the nearest valid sample rate. Therefore, the MP3 version is mainly intended for previewing in Archive's built-in Web player. While of acceptable quality, I don't recommend them for optimal listening. Audio master binaries are in 37800 Hz 2-channel ADPCM format, and can be easily converted to 16-bit linear PCM using ISO Buster and PSMPLAY.

Although the full EZAAC0707 disc fell through the cracks, I did keep its ADPCM audio blob. Once I find the disc I have it on I will demux and upload it. I hope you enjoyed this series, and there will be more coming in near-future.