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Alancee1965

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I know it's a bit late in the day for HI-MD, as some people would have us believe, but always liked the MD format, and have had several players throughtout my long years.

Recently got an MZ-RH1 as a wee treat to myself, all looked great in its spec, and when I got the machine was happy with it (cosmetically), even if the buttones are a tad wee.

Problem time now, have managed to get Sonicstage running on a Macbook Pro, running Window XP Service Pack 2 through Parallels, all seems well, even though never been a huge fan of Sonicstage and knowing that it sometimes doesn't recognise the player, am more than aware of the USB plugging/unplugging that needs to be done for it to recognise the MD unit.

All was well using the MZ-RH1 in standard minidisc mode, can copy music at all compressions, so I decided to format a standard TDK MD80 (brand new) to HI-MD, plugged into Mac, and reconised , HURRAH, in Windows Sonicstage ebven recognises it as HI-MD, but then "cannot use this as an audio disc as was not initialised in sonicstage" error, or something along those lines.

Following its recommendations, i went into device info and attempted initialisation, on for an error to appear.

This is bugging me now, as wish to use this mode for long audiobooks and radio recordings i've collected over the years.

Tried ipods etc, and i do own an iphone, but I want the use of MD as want ability to shuffle through, edit and keep stuff and always preferred the sound of MD.

Hope somebody can give me a pussh in right direction here, not intending buying dedicated HI-MD discs as have a collection of standard MDs which i hoarded when Richer Sounds used to sell them for mere pennies.

Please assist, Ta in advance

Alan

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Adventurous!

Try going into the MZ-RH1's menu (buttons on unit) and set the Disc Mode to HiMD. This means that even without a disk in it the unit will appear as HiMD to the Mac.

All HiMD units are dual-personality, under Windows they switch when you put a properly formatted disk in, but under Mac, I have no idea. However forcing the format to the one you want means that you won't have the hassle with one driver disconnecting and the other connecting.

I just re-initialized a (formatted) NetMD disk as HiMD (using NH700). The automatic switch did not happen, so perhaps the driver isn't cooperating in "real" Windows either. After initialization, I had to open the unit and reinsert the disk for the switchover to happen. (However this may be part of my adventures with NetMD drivers, and if it doesn't apply to you then can be ignored... YMMV as they say)

One more thought: can you try initting the disk WITHOUT using the computer?

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Cheers for the reply

Have tried a multitude of things, initialised disks in the machine MZ-RH1, but Sonicstage will recognise it as Hi-MD, Mac recognises it as Hi-MD, but Sonicstage will not allow disc to be used for audio,

Powered up PC insted and now when trying to convert MP3 to Atrac 48kps it won't allow it, saying that data is not transferrable, am using the CD that came with the unit Sonicstage 3.4 or summat, and wondered if that was the case, gonna tinker on and see if newer Sonicstage will let me do what I want.

Plus got 20 Brand new TDK MDs from Amazon to fill, hopefully get sorted before i start going mad.

Adventurous!

Try going into the MZ-RH1's menu (buttons on unit) and set the Disc Mode to HiMD. This means that even without a disk in it the unit will appear as HiMD to the Mac.

All HiMD units are dual-personality, under Windows they switch when you put a properly formatted disk in, but under Mac, I have no idea. However forcing the format to the one you want means that you won't have the hassle with one driver disconnecting and the other connecting.

I just re-initialized a (formatted) NetMD disk as HiMD (using NH700). The automatic switch did not happen, so perhaps the driver isn't cooperating in "real" Windows either. After initialization, I had to open the unit and reinsert the disk for the switchover to happen. (However this may be part of my adventures with NetMD drivers, and if it doesn't apply to you then can be ignored... YMMV as they say)

One more thought: can you try initting the disk WITHOUT using the computer?

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