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As you needed to repair the unit which originally had a bright display I would advise checking the power supplies to the VFD. Onkyo probably don’t do a service manual but as you’ve clearly got the skills to repair the display board I would look on you tube for some tutorials on VFDs. Regarding power supplies to the VFD there will be a dc one around 3V and an ac one around 24-30V.

The display on this one on eBay looks pretty bright too: LINK

There are some photos of an owner's MD-101A on the MiniDisc Wiki here: LINK Always a bit hard to tell with photos on the internet but the display doesn't look dim to me.

No, not all Onkyo MD 101A units have a dim to the display. If yours is very dim, it is likely due to age related wear of the which is common in older units.

Hello! I recently bought a sony walkman and have been transferring music to it. My main problem is that when I transfer my favorite Japanese songs the titles show up as '??????' and ive been trying to fix it by changing the IME and downloading the JE Installer but nothing is working.

Hello forum, I am experimenting with WebMD, which basically uses NetMD USB protocol. When setting track and disc titles however, those are not being read on an old Panasonic MD device. This just shows an info, that there are not titles set. Any advice on how to solve this? Thanks!

The MZ-R70 was released in 1999 and MDLP (ATRAC3) wasn't introduced until the following year. The OP already stated that they had some MDLP discs that don't play back on the MZ-R70. So, yeah, I think that's incorrect.

Sorry but I think Mr Wills is a bot (no offence bud!) To the best of my knowledge this claim is nonsense.

I'd be surprised if that were true (though that would be a great thing). All non MDLP players I've tried just seem to play silence with MDLP tracks. More likely to be mono as in previous responses.

I have two Onkyo MD-101A units. The first one arrived busted - impact on the jog dial during shipment cracked the display board in several places. The display showed random gibberish, but was nice and bright. I got a replacement from the seller and this one had a really dim display. After buying a digital microscope I was able to inspect and repair the display board on the first unit by bridging wires across the broken traces. Powered it back up and it worked.... but it's now just as dim as the other unit. So my question is, are they all like this? If so I'll stop bothering with Onkyo and get a Denon instead. Charlie.

Thank you BearBoy and sfbp , that must be reason. Thanks again all 🙂

Hi, the problem of the non-functioning display lies with the defective tantalum capacitors, and the 5V SMD stabilizer located on the button board. After replacement, the display works properly. Good luck.

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Hello. Is it possible the recordings are in mono? Mono SP would give you 160 minutes on an 80 minute MiniDisc.

Forgive my ignorance on this but i'm alittle confused as a newbie. I found a disk that has 150 mins of music on it, about 30 tracks. The music plays fine and I can skip through all tracks. The player is a Sony MZ-R70 which is a SP player only. Its not LP2 or LP4. I thought a unit had to be LP2 or LP4 compatible to play a disk that was created on a LP2 or LP4 unit. Google says the unit will play whatever the disc contains but somethings not right. However I do have some discs that will not work on this unit as they where infact made with LP2 audio. So how on earth does this disc have 150 mins of audio on it and work in the MZ-R70??? When i select to show All remaining recording time availble it says 74 mins. How can this be as it has 150 mins of audio on it. Its cool, but weird 🙂 Can someone clear up my confusion please. Much appreciated.

ok, so you have the driver issues sorted, that's great. I think that SS cannot handle variable bit rates (or some variable bit rates). Documentation should be in the extended (and extensive) manual which if you didn't get with a second hand unit, is easily available, either here or at minidisc.org The Tools->options has some things to look at. I couldn't find what I remembered, the "temp" thing is for making CDs which clearly need a large scratch space on HD. Then I remembered, when files are converted, the MP3 files (well, the OMA they get converted to) are put here: <whatever>\sonicstage\importedsound\Optimized Files\ Or it may have simply been the VBR restriction, if that location shows files you created with your successful transfer. A word to the wise - don't START with MP3 unless you have no choice. And even then, use Sound Forge to do the conversion, you will get a lot more options and the sound should be infinitely better. Always choose LP2 as your destination format. Hope this helps

Cheers for the reply 🙂 how do you make the temp files writable? I tried again yesterday to add some music but a different album this time and it worked. MP3 format. I'm not very familiar with the various formats out there tbh and I'll have to research the others. Just had a thought it might of been down to copyright protection on the cd?

Check your temporary file location is writeable. Most likely modern windows install is protecting all directories. SS has to convert files one by one after you press the transfer button. MP3 is not a good starting place for you. Don't try to run before you can walk. Get some OMA files you want to transfer and see if they can be sent to the device. If not, I would suspect strongly you didn't put the 64-bit NetMD driver in place. BTW, it's an MZ-N520, that N is the key to it being even hookable to the PC.

Hey guys. 🙂 So I have a Sony mz-520 that's been sat in the draw for a while that I've decided to dig out to hook up to my windows 11 laptop. I've managed to get sonicstage and the drivers on the laptop so the MD player can see the lap top but when I've tried to use it today sonicstage isn't letting me add tracks to the playlist side to record to MD. The tracks are MP3 so should be compatible. Any ideas where I'm going wrong guys? The software was downloaded from here. 4.3 ultimate

OK I couldn't understand some of the instructions on the link you gave; not surprising things errored out. Perhaps more importantly, yours isn't an MZ-R xx unit so the instructions are likely to be not the right ones. I suggest going to the Minidisc Wiki and download the service manual for your actual unit: https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sony/portable/mz-ne410 On page 24 is the 'Overall adjustment' instructions and you can try to follow those. Normally I'd say do the preceding temperature and voltage checks but give the overall adjustment a go first - it might work.

Hello everyone. I'm an idiot 🤦‍♂️. I followed this guide and ended up with the error message in the photo on my MiniDisc. https://www.minidisc.org/sony_mzr_reset.html It doesn't even move or makes the sounds of moving parts. Please help me get my device working again 🙏 Thank you very much.

asivery (the current developer of WMPpro and ElectronWMD) has produced replacement screens; the first batch went on sale early this morning UK time and cost less (65 EUR + 20 EUR shipping) than those from MD Gadgetry: https://lectronz.com/products/rh10-oled-module At the time of writing, there are 2 left from the initial batch ...

I commissioned this cover of the original track, this is only a truncated preview version, and I'm doing this for education and research purposes, so it should be covered under fair use. Here are some samples of what I mean about jitter, as if chunks of other samples were being recorded when or where they're not supposed to go. Those garbled sounds can also be heard further on the full track, intermixing with the normal sound. The track named "Jitter" was recorded on an MZ-N430D over USB, using the 4X fast SP upload option on Electron WMD. The one aptly named "NoJitter" was transferred using an MZ-N910, at 4x (no need to toggle the option, seems enabled by default on the application). Same disc, same original file, same computer, same USB cable. The only difference was the recorder. Tracks were transferred back using an MZ-RH1, into Wav format, truncated with Audacity. When transferring the track at 2x using the N430D, the sound is just as flawless as with the N910 at 4x. JitterShort.wav NoJitterShort.wav