Anyone used any PDA's for this??? or winCE??

There has been talk about it on the bbs, but I don't know if anybody has done it yet.

Anyone used their EmPeg for competition yet??

Yes. But there is a problem there. IASCA competition rules require that competitors use not just the official IASCA CD, but the judge's own personal copy of the IASCA CD. This is to prevent people from cheating by re-mastering the IASCA tracks to favor their own particular installation. This is not an unreasonable requirement on IASCA's part.

I was able to bluff my way through the Alaska State Championships last month with my empeg, but only because there was an out-of-town chief judge who realized that he didn't have to take the exact letter of the rules completely literally in such a backwoods environment as Alaska. The local judges have let me know that I'm not going to get by with that again.

Incidentally, I blew the State Championships. I put away everybody in my class big time in sound quality, but when I swapped my amps around for the SPL portion of the contest, I inadvertanly high-passed my subwoofer and low-passed my small speakers. I ended up giving away 25 points in SPL, finished second in class. Sigh...

By the time I have to compete again, I hope to have a resolution to the file-modification dilemma. I think the best solution will require a little co-operation between empeg and IASCA. Here is what I propose. The IASCA tracks must be loaded on the empeg in .WAV format (which will be supported in the soon-to-be-released 1.1 version of the empeg software). Hugo or Mike or someone at empeg will have to add a little snippet to the empeg software that can show on the empeg's display a checksum for each IASCA track. If these checksums matched the official IASCA checksums, then that would be proof that the track had not been altered in any way.

Please -- someone who knows a lot more about .wav files and checksums and the like than I do -- is this a feasible idea?

tanstaafl.





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