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Ah, ok. There's a way of getting USB power to a unit without invoking the driver, though. If you can avoid the proper driver getting installed, I should imagine that might get around the problem. For instance, the RH1 comes with a PS that has a USB connector on it, and runs fine. So do some of the other units though I don't actually own one. You can buy a USB powersupply for cars too. I would think that renaming all relevant drivers on Windoze would have the effect of turning the 'puter into a giant wall adapter, right?

I see from the photos of the MZ-RH910 that there is a Tmark button on the unit. Isn't this what you want? I was unable to find the manual but it might be somewhere on this site. Hope this helps.

This is an unsound and unscientific survey but a post created last night http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=21468 doesn't seem to have its images. I have no idea if this is an isolated event. Looks like the clue was those pics were uploaded *before* the majority of pictures came back.

A message I posted to today had an image which had disappeared. It's back, though. wd chris Stephen

Flush your browser cache, Ctrl-Shift-Del with Firefox. Logout. Clear all temporary files (Windoze) Reboot Windows. If this is a Mac thing, try again on another computer. Whoops there probably is something wrong with the board, all the photos just disappeared.

Right there in the picture is the evidence.... "free 407.2 MB" You ran out of space. Just as I said. Time to clean up your disk and delete some stuff. The WAV file will be about 500-600 MB Good Luck!

Check SS and see where the .WAV files are kept. 63 minutes is at least 500 MB maybe more like 600. If the default configuration is to put the .WAV files to some device or partition that doesn't have this much space, you might just have a problem. Look under 'Tools->Options->Location to save imported files'. It's also possible you need to defrag though I would be surprised. Something is stopping the transfer. The other (more disturbing) possibility is that you have errors on your disk that happen to get hit when you create the large file needed. Better back up soon.

Well, the DHS really scored a home run, look at this guys: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/0958242 Unbelievable!

Many laptops (eg my thinkpad) have a third socket hidden away from the pink (mike) and green ('phone) sockets. What brand? Maybe it's time to get a non-laptop which allows you to add a sound card? Alternatively there are USB sound cards such as this one here: http://www.terratec.net/en/products/Aureon...MK_II_2120.html Good luck!

There are lots of second hand decks from Ebay.co.uk. Suggest you try getting one of those. You'll probably need a sound card with optical in, try the Terratec Aureon Fun 5.1 from dabs.com.

Seems doubtful that member #0 is ever going to receive this Cheers

Well the firmware is what is reading the settings in NVRAM, surely? Do we know what they mean? I haven't looked in the service manual, nor compared to my own settings, either. We'd need to compare notes, as many as possible of us.

Interesting. So the cutoff voltages (probably just the low voltage) for charging is wrong (set too high). This would explain a lot. Probably someone with expertise in the firmware dept needs to figure out which parameter to tweak, then. I should have thought that this would be right up your street, Avrin.

Something else; (if that wasn't the problem) find a way to discharge the battery. Turns out there is circuitry in all(?this is the part I am not 100% certain of) Li-Ion batteries to prevent them going completely flat. This I learned AFTER buying a new laptop battery, and the ==new one== out and out dying after 1 year. Turns out all I needed to do was to DISCHARGE the OLD one, and it regained its composure (and chargeability). So it may be best to buy a new battery and leave the one you are having trouble with out, for a few months. Meanwhile, make sure any Li battery is drained as far as possible (by using it) about once per month, and it will tend to last longer. One way to monitor this is to see what the RH1 does when re-charging. If it is REALLY empty, then it will probably say 60 mins. If it is not so, it will say much less than that. I don't think the RH1 has a quick mode, at least when I checked the menus just now.

Very strange story here. I am looking for some of you old hands to explain it. I bought a used R91 about 6 months ago, actually for a family member, who didn't end up using it. It is a fine machine except that it doesn't do USB or MDLP. Anyhow, about 2 months ago, I noticed that the display was "flaky", sometimes "browning out" on me. The unit worked, the remote showed what was happening correctly but the display on lid was increasingly unreadable. I (shortly after) got an NF610 whose radio remote never ever worked and, trying to diagnose it, tried the radio in all the devices I had. As you know if you have seen one, the remote plug is strange and requires a specially shaped socket. Oddly enough the R91 has one. When I pushed the radio remote from the 610 into the R91 (it was a tight fit), all of a sudden the front-panel display started to work. The radio didn't. But I had fixed the problem. Any idea why? Puzzled in Vancouver.

LP2, right? So you are saying that regardless of the dropdown box it always produces LP2? If it's a bug, now I am interested. Seems like certain (other) operations in SS create LP2 when they shouldn't. I recall folks here saying that was a bug not a feature. Eg when transferring to SP via NetMD. "Fake SP" it has been referred to. However maybe you just referred to the default which can be overridden by the dropdown menu, and the menu works provided that you set it every time. I'm not clear which....

Trust me. They exist. The guy is sometimes out of the office, but quite reliable, stuff always seems to arrive.

You can buy one in Australia for $99 including all sorts of accessories, and in USA on Ebay for about $130 though some auctioned items may go for under $100.

Thanks. I read that as fast as I could, and no reference whatever to MD or digital out except something about Congress' attitude (on the last page). But the reference to AHRA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act does nicely explain the timing of how SCMS was introduced. Here is the puzzle though: the DECKS have audio out (well, most of them), but the PORTABLE PLAYERS do not. I absolutely fail to see why Sony decided to protect its a** in one case but not in the other. Maybe I'm missing something. This was an interesting read for several other reasons unconnected with MD, thanks again.

I would be very interested to read any details (who, what, when).

Terrific work! Have you just done this? Or..... I was thinking in the car driving home from holiday about the NetMD/RH1 upload thing. Have you tried substituting the NETMD052.SYS driver so that your NH600 loads it? I'm going to try something along those lines as soon as I have a chance. Once again, this is marvellous news, means one can really control the uploading part. Now if I (and maybe 1Kyle) can dig into the whole USB thing, perhaps there's some chance we can do some neat stuff....?

Hmm, I wonder if it's one of these redirected IP's. Probably the forum *is* accessible but needs a more convoluted reference. Meantime, as you say, it appears to have been "hijacked" (probable cause, someone didn't pay for the domain name). I own a forum myself and the problem is that many of them are on a shared IP with some sort of redirect. If the hoster broke it, or the redirection failed for reasons beyond his control, somehow the name has to be put back online. I haven't taken time to check but the arin.net/whois should give some clues, as well as good old NetSol whois. Before we do that, ask some of the posters here (kurisu?) who are involved in atraclife. I bet one of them knows what is going on.

I agree, Windows Mixer. Look at the advanced controls - maybe it thinks you need to set recording source to Line Input (or Aux or whatever you have plugged the cable into). You don't tell us the setup . If you can swap the to-computer cable for a headphone and it makes the headphones produce music, then the next thing is to find another sound source and see if that also fails to get to the computer, eliminating the MD from the equation. I'm assuming an analog line input (not Toslink digital) here. I have exactly this problem on my Terratec, when trying to grab a waveform for recording with something similar to Audacity, because of where the sound card routes the input.

The last trick that I learned was (when I have something that won't fit well on SP disk) to use an MD deck (not the HiMD!) as a glorified D-to-A. This means no dependency on the electronics in your HiMD portable. So I have my JE630 hooked to the stereo system, take OUT the minidisc, and press "RECORD". It now pops into a mode that shows "D-to-A" on the lighted display. Then optical cable to the HiMD recorder. Hope this helps. Regular decks are available and cheap. The Onkyo (HiMD deck) doesnt have digi-out. Now that is hard to believe. Where do you live? Presumably they are selling the 780. What is the voltage required? Stephen

Are you sure you cannot re-import the .WAV file into SS? (yeah yeah, I know everyone hates SS but it's just temporary so you can split up the file). You will have to convert it back to OpenMGAudio (choose convert on the right-click menu of the track). I am not certain about this - but it looks like SS does almost zero work when importing a WAV file, thereby confirming the contention that OpenMG Audio (for 1411 kbps) is simply a wav file with a header stuck on the front. I just tried it out (with a small file). The only thing I had to do was to DELETE the wave file (from the properties of the file) before SS would let me divide the file. Sorry I didn't have time to do it with a large file, but if my theory is correct that won't be a big deal. Save a copy of the monster file before you do this, painful as that is. Another thought: if you have Nero, try opening the wave file in their Wave Editor. Maybe Nero fixed whatever problems CoolEdit didn't. You're going to need Nero to burn that DVD that you save the file on, right?