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Nah, the K suffix means "kanji-CAPABLE" that's all. It also tends to be a higher resolution display, which is a sort of advantage. In a couple of models the player actually sends a second line to the pencil-shaped display, which is *really* nice (the N910 for sure).

The only thing I have seen is fake battery CHARGER, and also some batteries have oxide on the pins which you might have to scrape off with a sharp knife before they charge at all. Avrin, I've never been unlucky like you, I have only had to work a little to get the most unlikely gumstick working just fine.

Yeah you can find some other remote controls. Is this the one with no LCD display (that is also shipped with the NH700 incidentally)? You can find RM-MC38EL or RM-MC35ELK from a bunch of places, they might be knockoffs (more like factory skrinkage!?) but generally they work fine. There's also a couple of nice® ones, an RM-MC40ELK, and an RM-MC55 (not sure of the suffix this one is really rare).

MDS-JB980 all the way from England. Works a treat even on my funny little uptransformer. No evaluation on quality yet but it certainly feels and looks very solid. No pictures, yet. Cost me 77 quid + postage. Amazing! (in answer to your other comment Wiz, I base my appreciation of LP4 on the lack of distortion in all different types of sound, especially different instruments and combinations of instruments - the CRAP only comes when one tries to transcode, because lossy->lossy doesn't work right). I'm really looking forward to comparing the playback to my MXD-D400. Neat feature: you can choose whether the USB connection is on or off with a button unlike the portables (which have to be unplugged from the USB bus) so it's easy to control when you want to download things to it. Now if I could only UPload from this beast without using optical. Cmon guys in Berlin, let's see if you can do it.....

Most of these units share a common mechanism in that department. However the cable is soldered, not screwed. You can take a look at the (service) manuals for different models starting at http://minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html Don't even think about buying this sort of thing from Sony, if you are really attached to the 707 you would be better to buy another unit for $30 or so and cannibalise it.

All I can say is, your bumpy roads must be awful quiet

Great. I had a bad experience with non-Sony head unit controlling Sony devices, but that was the non-Sony device's limitation, I suspect. I'm not that excited about portables in the car because it's (for me) one more thing to lose (ie be stolen), drop, bend, mash, or dirty.

Man --- that's serious amounts of music (especially if it is all Hi-LP!!!!!!!!) Better idea.... Get a copy of junction.exe available from Sysinternals (taken over by microsoft but the domain still pointed there last time I looked). Create a junction thusly: c>\junction e:\sound h:\sound <<<<<>>>>>> NO, that's wrong....backwards What you need is to mount a virtual drive (Mount point) in E:\whatever that is known as H: I think it can be done, I just have to remember how... (later) 1. Create a new folder called "Sound" on e: 2. Copy all your files there from h: 3. Unmount h: (physically disconnect it or use Disk Management to do so) 4. Share e:\sound to whoever you want (the wizard gives "full" to administrators r/o to rest, that should be good enough) as \\mypc\sound (where "mypc" is the name of your pc) 5. Map "Network drive" H: to \\mypc\sound and make the mapping permanent (reconnect at logon). Presto you now have a "fake" H drive, and SoS will work perfectly. The other technique works if you started on e: and want to "expand" to h: Stephen PS my NH600 is holding up beautifully, assuming you are the same Ming

But the quality of HiMD at 256K is quite unsurpassed, especially when combined with a CD that now holds the equivalent of about 5 to 6 "normal" CD's. You're never going to hear the difference between 256K and 1411 in a car anyway, who ultimately cares about lossless in this instance, since all you want to do is listen in the car, not archive your data(music). Sure it would be nice to have a DVD in-car that played MP3's up to 4.7GB capacity, too. But notwithstanding your earlier comments about skipping (the G-protection on the Sony units is perfect BTW) the quality I am getting via Atrac3+CD is jolly good. And I don't think I am confusing anyone, unless they equate HiMD with lossless PCM. Since that is what you get on a conventional CD anyway. Sorry, this comment arose because I am increasingly seeing the car units referred to as "decks". My fault.

There have always been *some* defaults about dates built into IPS's software. It's possible this is a user-configurable setting that is about the user, not about the board. It's also possible that administration controls it (I don't know as I no longer have access, in the V.3 world) as a setting "how far back to default search". There is a default on the length of time backwards that topics are displayed for a given forum or subforum, when opened - perhaps it is the same default being applied. After all it is almost exactly 60 days since July 11.

Exactly. Use the link in my first post for exact description of what to do. Here it is again.

(repeats himself over and over) You CAN have HiMD in your car... on an Atrac CD. There are lots of brand new Sony units that play Atrac3+ (and Atrac3, also) at Dakmart on Ebay, and lots of second hand ones in your local craigslist or whatever means people use in your locality to buy/swap electronic and other junk Try searching Ebay for CDX-GT510 and then go to the seller's store.

Not so fast. If you highlight NOTHING, then there is some normal cutoff by date. But if you highlight every forum by clicking, then it works fine. You do need to specify some dates, too. The problem comes because the "parent" to "other" and "hardware" isn't visible in the search tree?

Something odd about search. You have to highlight :hardware: and also :other: I found your posts. (looks like there isn't a way of searching all forums at once, until you do this) And your links simply point to topic numbers in the old db. There would be no way for the migration to have fixed your sig.

you might try cleaning the contacts on the jack where it goes into the player, I realise this is kinda spitting in the wind because it probably happens when the remote is unplugged too.

Did you find the manual here? Take a look at page 31. Is that what you need? With a name like Thomson you must be Kanajun too Just kidding, I noticed that this model was only ever for sale in Canada. One more thing.. if you need to divide into tracks BEFORE you download things to the Walkmen, note that Divide is only possible (and visible from the E&dit menu) when you select "view all tracks" in Sonic Stage (ie not from the default Album/Playlist view).

You aren't - not at all. Sony included this feature very late on and it STILL defaults to ON Put SonicStage in My Library (click the centre top). On the main menu, under T(ools, you should see "Start File Conversion Tool...". You will now be asked to allow exit from SonicStage. This is good. When it initializes, you will be presented with a dialog that looks like this (after an intro and then something that says "checking the database" for a minute or three). Note that instead of 31 minutes (this is a tiny database) it may say 12-18 hours!!!! DON'T PANIC. (note you will have to click on the image below to enlarge it and see what it looks like) Now if you UNncheck the box that reads "Add copy protection", it will scan through the db again, and come up with a revised estimate of how long it will take. If you've never done it, this may be an hour or two. If you make a point of doing it after uploads or once a week, it will rarely take more than a couple of minutes, and usually their number is double what it turns out (this software is CPU intensive and was written for machines slower than the present generation). Don't check the upper box, it in fact replaces the old .oma files with ones ending .OMA without any extra help from you. Hope this helps! Stephen

I can't believe I'm posting this, but I am listening at LP4!!! to a Handel Opera. Most of them I managed to capture at LP2 but this was just too long for 163 minutes. No distortion, good balance, way batter than anything from the cassette era or off radio, and playing with Type-S probably good enough. There's a lot more coming in this year of Handel's 250th (since his death in 1759) so this link will give some idea. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k3k02

They are the identical unit, but the M200 includes an ECM-DS70P microphone, which you can buy for a lot less elsewhere, if you are (!!) careful. PM me and I will direct you to one reseller I trust. If the prices are identical (from the same source) between RH1 and M200 they're not telling you something However the best place to get RH1 is probably here Apparently (I've not owned one) the N707 was particularly prone to this fault, which can happen on any of them. I have an N505 which I bought busted that I managed to restore to health, so it's not impossible to fix.

Don't even THINK about backing up the .oma files until you have removed the DRM encryption. If you do so much as a System Restore (or possibly a Windows Service Pack or worse, upgrade) you may lose the lot. In this case, having them backed up "with commercial software" won't help in the slightest. Sorry. To answer your other question, I think they continue to provide new software (eg Version V) with their new models. The fact that the current (4.3) software still works on the first NetMD MD models is pretty amazing in the short-memory world of digital music - but Sony came from the music end, not the digital end, to where they are. Try version 5, if nothing else you get to learn Japanese

The one everyone is excited about (from Sony) is called PCM-D10. There's a more expensive PCM-D50 from about a year ago, but the PCM-D10 looks like it will sell in large numbers. Google it, and you'll see. And there's an introduction from one of our own here. I just had to fix the link by hand, if anyone is wondering, by going over to the old board which I still have access to, grabbing the link and fixing the post here.

Sorry to be a bit late to this particular auction. The Sonic Stage libraries are particularly badly designed with the effort to protect content by DRM coming above all. However you can group your Songs within the library using three different types of agglomeration- albums by artist, albums (no artist), and playlists. Maybe there's a solution there. Also - and this is what really counts - don't even THINK of using backup without being very careful. Backup and restore would mess up the permissions and encryptions something horrible because the protection has a time element in it (the computer's clock, in other words). First of all, before you try anything like that, you need to learn how to remove the DRM from any uploads you have made. (you cannot do it with DRM-protected downloads from the net, it is fair to say). This takes a fair amount of juggling as the database also has a horrible habit of pronouncing perfectly good WAV tracks as unexportable to MD (the solution is to delete them from the library without deleting the music file(s) and re-add them). What I am trying to get to is this: if you can get rid of the DRM (using the Sony-supplied File Conversion Utility) then it works just fine to keep the actual .oma file (well they become .OMA but the change of file name is only a signal, not a guarantee that they are different) in a different physical place. You can in fact move them around on the computer or the network, or play them back from another machine, or keep them on a memory stick, or portable USB drive. Although the entries might be in the library, the files wouldn't be there, so you could swap drives and only the music that one person wanted would actually be there available to Sonic Stage. I know that's not much help but just a thought. Another reason you might want to do that, is those files don't even need SonicStage to run in order to play them. They can be played using Windows Media player (or anything that uses all the codecs like RealPlayer). This means they can be in the list of one of the other players. Doesn't help you with download (to the MD players) but once again provides a logical separation. A third option is to get VirtualPC (or VirtualBox) and run a separate Windows inside Windows. But most people won't do that unless they have a very recent (and therefore powerful) PC. That would be literally the only way to get what you describe - namely a totally separate install of SonicStage on the same PC. (Actually Avrin is sure to comment that there's some clever way of getting multiple SonicStages to co-exist - I actually have 5.2 on this PC as well as 4.3. However 5.2 doesn't even support MD. It DOES play back the OMA files, though). You said be gentle - but you are asking to do something even the geeks don't usually try. (added: since you are not using MD's at least in part, you COULD get the 5.2 version for the NW-A1000. Provided you can cope with partial Japanese menus LOL - the track titles will still be in English).

All of it. You need to follow the link where it says "to fix it". Sorry for being terse (you'll have to look that word up). Do you need to understand MDLP (link here? Do you know about Ebay? (http://www.ebay.com) Keep asking questions - we will manage to explain to you somehow.

yup, and mostly at the behest of Uncle Sam, not any desire by the Canadians. The legislation (C-61) died, as it should. Whether as a result, or not, now Canada is rated (according to the newspaper, but I cannot find the reference) by the US Govt as one of the highest piracy risks in the world. I don't know whether to be proud of this or not.

Here's what you want: http://stores.shop.ebay.ca/newtonsofsale__W0QQ_armrsZ1 Good luck, and welcome to MDCF. I can vouch for this seller.