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If I set a minidisc or other portable to LINE OUT, what other problems can i expect feeding that into a common-or-garden sound jack on a mixer or other pro sound equipment? I have a cable with 3.5mm on one end and 6mm on the other (1/4"). Both are stereo jacks but the receiving end is defiantly mono. No idea how to fix that. What I do know is that with some combination of adapters that the sound was very iffy and dependent on twiddling the jacks. However even with my nice new direct cable with gold contacts on each end there are still some problems with limiting (and the sink device supposedly has tons of headroom) as i increase the volume beyond about half way round the dial. For the record, for this test I used an NW-HD5, battery fully charged. Sounds fine into headphones.

Once again the misnomer "over-light" crops up. Prompts me to tell a story relating to the most successful (non-hiTech) entrepreneur of our times in British Columbia, a certain Jimmy Pattison, he of Scots background and certainly that Scottish austere, disciplined take-no-prisoner approach to business (25 car dealerships at last count). He also founded a grocery chain known as Save On Foods. However out on Vancouver Island, the stores are still known as OverWaitea (dropped the name when he expanded to the mainland, I guess). Why? Because when he first started in business running a grocery, when someone came in to buy a quarter pound of TEA, he always made sure that they got more than they paid for. Hence "over-weight-tea" became Overwaitea. And you all thought the name had something to do with being fat (most people here instinctively assume that)! I wish some more business leaders and politicians were good at that sort of customer relations instead of getting fat at our expense. Sorry for the digression.

Good, you had me really worried

"AC" on the meter???? Whoa folks....

Digging out my trusty B-10 to lend to a friend for artistic purposes. Happened to notice that the unit supports MONO recording. I never noticed that was possible before. It's definitely gone from Hi-MD units, though they will play it back. On checking, all the NetMD units such as JB980 and N910 support it.

NGY: I think if you post twice it may under certain circumstances combine the posts. For example when you quote 2 different posts. Not sure, though. Never tried to do it on purpose only by accident. (I think you may be able to join two of your own posts after the fact, too) Yeah, this is getting weird isn't it. I'm wondering about a very noisy powersupply. THOSE might degrade at the same month in history.

I've never used Itunes. But if I was the proprietor of Itunes I might well send the "holey" bit patterns to prevent people making second gen copies. As I said, I don't think that's what's happening here - this all arose when you suddenly got "cannot copy" in the middle of your various tests. It WOULD be interesting to see if the skips happen on the coax connection. I have a little gizmo that converts TOSlink to coax and also the reverse (one box) which might be worth the $10 or so (of course you could be an electronics whiz like these two guys and make one for about $3), if your source is TOSlink only. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Coaxial-to-Optical-Toslink-SPDIF-Audio-Converter-Bi-Directional-Swtich/233400933139

One other little detail. Depending on what software you used to create a CD-R, it (the CD) MAY be considered uncopyable, like a second generation MD. Bruce (Bluecrab) demonstrated this to me and sent me a CD with holes in it (not literally, but in the SCMS bit pattern!) to prove the point, which I still have. I suppose it's even possible that some tracks on a CD-R might be copyable, others not. But that's not what you're seeing, is it. You're getting skips. Sorry for the interruption - regular programming now resumes

In windows there are two sets of environment variables. You can see them if you pull up a command prompt and type SET <enter> To modify them it's easy enough to pull up the advanced properties (right click "My computer" or "ThisPC" or whatever its called, and select properties). The PATH environment variable determines where the system looks before it loads the next DLL it needs (also the next program you ask for).

It depends where the source disk was recorded. If it's an original recording, you will be able to make a first generation copy. This does NOT apply to anything sent to an MD via USB, which is *by definition* considered a copy.

You won't be able to copy from one MD to another by TOSlink in the majority of cases. This is SCMS in action.

Here, for reference is the list of device IDs you should care about, lifted from NETMD760.inf VID_054C&PID_006F ; NW-E7 VID_054C&PID_0075 ; MZ-N1 VID_054C&PID_0080 ; LAM-1 VID_054C&PID_0081 ; MDS-JB980 VID_054C&PID_0084 ; MZ-N505 VID_054C&PID_0085 ; MZ-S1 VID_054C&PID_0086 ; MZ-N707 VID_054C&PID_0097 ; Vaio PC NetMD VID_054C&PID_00C6 ; MZ-N10 VID_054C&PID_00C7 ; MZ-N910 VID_054C&PID_00C8 ; MZ-NF810/N710 VID_054C&PID_00C9 ; MZ-NF610/N510 VID_054C&PID_00CA ; MZ-NE410 VID_054C&PID_00E7 ; 333NT/373NT (should be the same as each other) VID_054C&PID_00EB ; MZ-NE910/NE810 VID_054C&PID_0188 ; MZ-N920 VID_054C&PID_0101 ; LAM-10 VID_054C&PID_0113 ; AM-NX1 VID_054C&PID_0119 ; CMT-SE9 VID_054C&PID_013F ; MDS-S500 VID_054C&PID_014C ; AM-NX9 ;Sharp/Kenwood VID_04DD&PID_7202 ; Sharp IM-MT880/899 VID_04DD&PID_9013 ; Sharp IM-DR400/410 VID_04DD&PID_9014 ; Sharp IM-DR420/DR80/DR580, Kenwood DMC-S9NET ; Panasonic VID_04DA&PID_23B3 ; Panasonic SJ-MR250 ; NetMD configs for HiMD Devices VID_054C&PID_017E ; MZ-NH1 VID_054C&PID_0180 ; MZ-NH3D VID_054C&PID_0182 ; MZ-NH900 VID_054C&PID_0184 ; MZ-NH800/NH700 VID_054C&PID_0186 ; MZ-NH600/NH600D/DH710 VID_054C&PID_01E9 ; MZ-DH10P VID_054C&PID_0219 ; MZ-RH10/M100 VID_054C&PID_021B ; MZ-RH910/M10 VID_054C&PID_0286 ; MZ-RH1/M200

you gotta put the python libraries in your path, surprised the install didn't do that. Meaning, alter your path to have the python libraries in it so that when you call DLLs that are relevant, they get loaded.

I'm not up to grappling with Python right now. But it struck me there might have been a performance reason why they took it out. We know the deck-based NetMD seems unusually slow. Maybe this is why?

Excellent work! Quick question: if you throw the extra handshake in to the communications stream of a device that does NOT require it, what happens? i.e. is the simplest to put that step in to ALL devices, thereby simplifying maintenance? Not sure it's important, but special cases always end up being what drag something down. Decks probably came before portables; is this just history, or is there a genuine need to police the state of the connection when talking to one of these decks?

Agree - it simply can not be the discs themselves.

Hey I wasn't being super-serious. But sometimes the problems that people throw at one, it pays to think outside the box (or the chassis!)

All good advice. I'm thinking the problem is more than likely with poor recording by some portable, OR a badly adjusted 470. The third really weird possibility is that the 470 is not in fact a 470 but something like a 330 that someone's put in a 470 box and therefore is an SP-only machine. Did you just buy it?

Jumping in here...... The best way to access Yahoo jp is to use a service. There are at least three. I have tried 2 of them, buyee.jp and fromJapan Beware the hidden costs. You may well end up paying roughly double the final auction price.

I always regarded the SMs as if they might well be written in Hungarian. No offence to your native tongue (which does have a reputation of sorts you will admit). Maybe that's why you and your countrymen are good at fixing electronics (Elektrotanya.com is from there).

I love those Wa's - some of the most elegant of all MD's.

Did you remove ALL the 32-bit netmd drivers from windows\inf? Well documented. What can happen is that the 32 bit driver can reload. That would explain Freddy's observation too.

There's even someone with those flight cases on Ebay. Wonders will never cease. Be careful of the super-transparent MD blanks. I have had trouble with more than one make, the TDK RXGs come to mind but I have a feeling also these particular JVCs.

Yeah the thing should show up with two different PIDs - one for NetMD and one for HiMD. For the latter, no drivers are required.

You need to follow the trsin tracks. Step one is to get rid of all 32 bit drivers for netmd. Step 2 is to disable driver signature enforcement at next boot Step 3 is to install NetMD760 When you say it's back to being a storage device that necessarily implies you're in HiMD mode. So at the very least you need to insert a formatted legacy MD. Better would be to switch the disc mode (menu) to NetMD/MD and insert a blank disk. You'll get there.