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So it works as a HiMD (the storage feature) but the NetMD function is probably impaired by Zadig. You're going to have to uninstall the Zadig driver if you want SonicStage to work on legacy (NetMD) disks. I think......

You'd better give us a summary of what DOES work.

It will disconnect and reconnect any time you switch from NetMD to HiMD, for one thing For another, if USB power is not that great you may have some problems. Put a 3V Sony PS on the yellow power/charging socket and see if the problem vanishes. Also when the "disc mode" is different from the disk just removed, or the disk just inserted is different from the "disc mode" you will hear the same disconnect/connect noises.

Sounds to me like the outputting amplifier is sending any one of 88.2,96,176.4,192 Khz sampling rate data. You probably have to find a setting on the AMP to do "PCM downsampling" or something like that, for the digital output. Most makes don't allow digital output at all. In addition you have to turn off Dolby Digital, THX, DTS, etc etc and set for plain ol' 2 channels. 5 years ago when this post was started, digital streams with high data rates were probably not as common. In addition HDCP protection is there on a lot of sound sources such as movies, bluray SACD etc. We need some more details: the make and model, which connector (Toslink or Coax), and which MD deck (the North American decks tend to have only Toslink, whereas the Euro-decks often have a digital coax connector in place of one optical).

Alternator starting to die. Mine took years to do so. Some head units are like the canary in the mine. You He/she could start by checking the voltage supply a. at the battery b. at the head unit.

r o f l (spouse says I need to get rid of these things N O W)

I have a 630 if you'd like one. Please contact me by message if interested. Stephen

Keep reading!

Quick thought, Gyula. It might be better to avoid disks recorded on portables. I would be inclined to believe a disk recorded on one of the other decks. Why? because portables especially NetMD (ie pre HiMD and post SP-only like the amazing R50) tend to have trouble with power. I remember when got my N910 and before I had an MDLP deck. I made some disks (LP2) to play in the car, for which I had bought, not an MD deck, but the 6-MD-changer that plays MDLP. IT DIDN'T WORK, and the culprit was the portable.

Reading is actually fussier than writing, as you have discovered. Not so with portables, where the power used is capable of "bankrupting" the battery during recording. Of all the units to repair, it seems the 510 has had the worst luck with failures. I wonder if it's all that metal..........

What about next day? One side effect of recording is that the disk gets hot. Sometimes this may have an adverse effect on electronics...... In turn it may mean the system (servo mechanism) is having to work too hard to play or record, ie it needs some sort of adjustment. Head cleaning is going to do just about nothing and likely risks the optical pickup. Very occasionally cleaning is an issue, but I really really doubt it here.

No idea what the "H" means in the world of Sharp. However the MT-99 is definitely MDLP. Some units by some manufacturers lost Mono capabilities (you get double SP but only one channel of course) so I had to check before replying. Thanks for supplying full information in your query. You should be good to go.

The MDS-JE640 is on the list of machines that does implement it, so it's some stoopid arbitrary firmware choice they made to differentiate the models. The 640 and 440 are so similar that they share a manual. I was about to post the manual page when I saw it says "MDS-JE640 only" at the top of it. BTW the Auto Pause function is so well hidden, I'm not surprised I never noticed it, never having needed it either. I'll bet on the 480 its there but you have to use the same series of button presses as on most of the decks such as the MDS-PC3. Menu->Setup>Yes. Tab to AutoSpace, press Yes (whilst it's flashing) and then AMS (go to next menu item, which on the PC3 remote is FF button) rotate until you get Auto Pause. Activate or deactivate with Yes. No need for super-size-me remote

Great. A very versatile little beast. The function was well hidden in the docs but is in fact there.

Auto pause is there on all the decks. It's missing from all the Walkmen. End of. The MDS-PC3 is a deck but it's quite small. Will that do?

To be truthful I actually use CoolEdit which was what Adobe took over and made into Audacity. It's always worked perfectly for resampling, stretch, pitch+speed. I think.... now you've got me worried, will (OCD) go and check. Update: Slowing it down or speeding it up by 10% were both absolutely no problem. I took "Where corals lie" for Soprano and piano by Edward Elgar, used medium precision. Both the singer and the piano sounded full and rich. I think something which is compressed such as mp3 will just about die when you do this, and MDLP won't be a lot better. But MDSP should be fine.

You're right. The 980 has it, and the 770 and PC3, the 640 does not. Not certain about 940.

If sound quality really matters you need Audacity.

It's on every deck in the Setup menu under "Auto Off". The portables do NOT have it. But the B10 has a footswitch which comes with it. Some of the higher end portables (but see the article on minidisc.org) have the ability to mark at a predetermined spacing "TIME MARK" every 15 minutes.

There's a genuine bug in most versions of any minidisc firmware relating to deletion of files with the same name. The solution is to be quite sure to name every track differently BEFORE you try to delete them. Sorry about that, but I recall this from a very long time ago.

The sad thing is that I recall trying to do just that. I may well be mistaken but I think that there was some other piece missing under Windows 7. The Swiss guy seemed to nail the fact that px.dll was missing for SimpleBurner. Maybe it's that which we have to find?

The PCLKUSB driver is the problem. Like I say, someone needs to figure out how to make it work with 64-bits via a stub or something. This can be done in a virtual pc window but not directly.

1. You will NOT get M-Crew working in Windows 64-bits. That problem is unsolved unless someone can do magic with Zadig that so far I haven't figured out. 2. If you are running 32-bits Windows 10 you need to do a couple of things: a. Get rid of ALL the old NetMD drivers""""(the previous one definitely had an error in it) before installing the latest .inf file along with NetMD760 b. Enable unsigned driver installation. The only way I know to do this reliably is to hold down shift while clicking on the restart icon in Windows 10. If you are running Windows 64-bits then you WILL need to do these two steps in #2. This should enable SonicStage but not M-Crew. Hope this helps! ****: instructions for this are posted elsewhere and involve inspecting and removing a bunch of files from C:\WINDOWS\INF

Not going to happen, per se.We do not have Vaio software resources here, at all. https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/S1F0507 You should be able to get a license for 7 Pro somewhere, do him a favour rather than hamstringing him with Home Premium. The above article suggests how to add in the specific Sony drivers after a generic Microsoft install. Good luck! (7 is no longer supported by anybody since January 14th 2020.)