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The biggest GOTCHA is that you may render your Jog lever almost unusable by pushing too hard on it. I did. That's a steep price to pay. The only good news was that it convinced me not to use the RH1 as a player.

try a little abrasion however isopropanol probably isnt good enough... contact cleaner is a bit more aggressive

I just figured out what goes wrong with remotes, after I read somewhere how they operate - namely they change the resistance at the unit. Clearly bad connection at the point where the remote plugs in is the problem. Take the connector out, spray it with contact cleaner, and reinsert (probably BEFORE all the cleaner has evaporated). This revived an otherwise completely unresponsive RM-MC35ELK for me. I may have even thrown out one of the ones with an FM radio built in before I discovered this, woe is me!

something mechanical, or power, then usually when the writing circuit dies it is not intermittent. if it suddenly gets worse then you have the answer. however I would clean the battery terminals with some contact cleaner and a qtip

Can you actually play back even ONE track that you just downloaded onto it?

Do you really mean "upload" (as commonly accepted here, upload is MD->PC)? If you mean download, my first thought would be: check the battery contacts for guck, and put a brand new non-rechargeable battery in there for testing. This unit CANNOT draw power from the USB.

I wonder if the "Seek problem" is in fact a power problem. Is there any way to make sure (switching batteries, cleaning contacts, charging batteries with known device, etc) ? Sounds like the sort of nonsense under heavy load.

Are you suggesting passing around MD's?

Well, I already have a B10, and an RH1, but thinking about backup for the RH1. OK, so you were just kidding, sigh. When my ship comes in then.....

No way, heard bad things.

Not that I found. These are rare enough that the ones I bought as part of my GP charger package, were already showing signs of age and took a fair amount of reviving. There are some available in this country at $30 per battery, I can tell you where

Recommend here

Thanks just never noticed it on the site here.

I wasn't thinking of data, I was thinking of power.

Sigh, thanks. The question is sorta vaguely relevant to what the folks in the linux-minidisc project are trying to do.

Please post a link to something about this Philippe. BTW did you ever try the LP2/4 copying experiment?

Absolutely no way. Standard disks can be recorded using HiMD, and played back on a HiMD unit. However the specifically HiMD disks (1GB capacity) cannot be formatted or read by an SP player. They're physically different. If you inherit a standard (60,74,80) disk with HiMD music on it, it can be erased and reformatted as SP quite easily. And most if not all HiMD units such as your NH1 will record in SP.

In addition, being able to move stuff to/from an MD (with NO actual conversion to the sound encoding) is important. I have recently discovered that now I have a way of moving MDLP around it is not bad as a storage format, and can be played on most units. The same goes for MP3, I am sure. I have noticed that Atrac<-->MP3 seems to fail in both directions, from a sound quality point of view. So I agree completely.

Try disconnecting them

I'm guessing USB problems, with the USB going down. Is it shared? Are there hubs? NetMD is known to fail when the connection is shared, you need the full bandwidth of a USB 1.1 connection. Recommend XP, the USB drivers are probably more stable. I have used my NE410 with Windows 2000, though. Steer clear of SonicStage 3.4, you should get 4.3 (get the one from links here if you have any doubt).

Interested in that.

Don't think so. I recall someone stuck tape over the relevant hole just to see, and..... (remember "Adventure") Nothing Happens.

Disclaimer: I don't own one of these, never have, probably never will. Based on what I recall reading by folks here who own this machine, you can play (maybe even record on) a std minidisc, but for the 4-track operation you need special disks, specifically the MD Data disk. I'm sure one of them will pipe up soon enough to confirm or deny this part. So most likely your first step is to go find an MD Data Disk. They run about $14 (for one disk!!!), and can be had at places like tapewarehouse.com, guitarcenter.com, and minidisc-canada (now pauseplaystop.com).

Hmm I just went there and and they want between $5 and $6 per disc. When did you last buy some?

The NH600 has a 3V DC connector. The NH600D does not. Interestingly the NH600 will NOT charge a rechargeable battery that's in it.