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Hi all If you've read my last thread (or my very first one at least) you know know that I have amassed quite a lot of MiniDisc equipment. I say a lot ... is probably quite a small collection compared to what some of you own Anyway, I've changed quite a lot in terms of how I record, what I use and how I do it, etc. I now record mostly via optical cable to my deck, MDS-JE440. Intially, I was optical recording to my MD-MT80 Portable, but MDietrich mentioned that "owning a stationary Type-R deck... consider yourself lucky, for you have the best possible ATRAC quality" so I figured I might as well just used that. Before that I was using NetMD, and just recording discs via that. What stopped me is the fact that I tend to use MiniDiscs to house an artists personal best of, if that makes sense. My favorite songs covering many albums. A few of these albums have places where gapless is required and NetMD (or at least SonicStage) doesn't do this. The other thing was, when I was compiling for a disc (a band called The Birthday Massacre), I noticed that a lot of the songs have an atmospheric noise coming off of the end of the song, going into the next one. When I initially burned the disc via NetMD, it sounded like a mess and just ended up irritating me somewhat, so I placed all of the songs into a DAW I use, Mixcraft, and blended them together that way so it was gapless, and really quite good, I was very pleased with myself. I burned it as a whole track (over and hour long or so) via optical, and then separated them later. It is a process I've since used on a few discs, I quite enjoy doing it this way. The only thing I use NetMD for at the moment is titling tracks. Sod doing that letter by letter. I imagine the process I use will change again in future, it always does. I'm forever changing things. I use the optical out on my PC, which is set to 24bit/48kHz. I know that MiniDiscs will just bring it down to 44.1kHz but I can't change it. The control panel only gives me two options, 48kHz and 96kHz and either one of those can be set to 16 or 24bit, ultimatley I'm not fussed about it. I am curious what version of ATRAC the MD-MT80 has. My deck states ATRAC DSP Type-R/ATRAC3 and both NetMD units state Type-S but from what little I can gather Type-S improves ... something to do with LP2/4. Oh, I forgot. I also print my own labels now. Nothing fancy, just labels for the cases that give track listing, label for the face of this disc and the spine/bottom/whatever you want to call it. Part of the reason I would buy sealed discs so often was the labels they came with, but I was constantly changing discs and wasting them. And then my brain went "I wonder if they sell A4 sticker paper?" Turns out they do You can get just about anything in this day and age.