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First things first. Is that a typo or are you really using 3.4 Sonic Stage? NOT recommended Since your Windows is 64-bit then you MUST uninstall all NetMD drivers except the NETMD760.SYS. This process is detailed elsewhere but you have to be careful to find the files in windows\inf which is a hidden (invisible) directory. It's entirely expected that a bare HiMD machine might show up, but only in HiMD mode. For NetMD mode, the subsystem will basically crash unless you get the (unsigned) driver NETMD760.SYS installed. This will only happen if you get a prompt asking if it's ok to ignore the hash/signature mismatch. If you only get the prompt in your earlier post, you must go back and disable signature enforcement for long enough to get the driver going. Looks to me like standard stuff still.

Kevin! I always wondered what you looked like ;;;;;;;;;; Seriously though, I enjoy his videos. Interesting that the MXD-D5C was the target of his interest. Mainly because I discovered that the Japanese domestic version would run M-Crew. I had a US-model D5C but it absolutely resisted (and still does!) my attempts to make that function work, even after my attempts to modify it (by comparison with the Japanese model, which I obtained later). I will say that he got a bit ripped off, certainly by comparison with my own experience. But I did use a different auction bidding company to the one he chose. I already added optical out to both machines, but the other part never worked. Sadly, the whole thing became a bit irrelevant once Sony withdrew their license payments to the company that bought GraceNote, because now the automatic retrieval of CD track information no longer works with any of the old Sony products (and that goes for SonicStage too). Nevertheless I've had it in mind to try and figure out how to make the darned thing work - the difficulty is that I don't have the Japanese schematic, only the US one.

The trick is the diode. 3.3V diodes are pretty well unobtainable now. So when you get your TOTX173 or whatever, you need to find a 5V rail, which is good because there's a 5V on the connector to/from the BD board. So it's three wires (push fitted at the ribbon cable end, soldered at the diode) and you're done. I didn't even mount the diode properly but the follow up by Cameron clearly details this. On some chassis there are spaces for both the backpanel connector and also a diode anchored to the motherboard. YMMV. One more thing: the critical pin is the DOUT on the CXD2662 (or equivalent), pin 21. Trace that connection in the schematic and it becomes obvious (well it was at the time, 9 years on I dunno (: ) Stephen

Good morning! A while ago one of our most experienced (read: has the largest actual variety of players, somewhere between 50 and 100 I believe) users did a survey where the sound of different units was surveyed. His conclusion: the N505 is right at the bottom of the pile. Part of the reason, at least, was the cost-cutting nature of its construction - it's one of the lowest priced models ever to hit the market. Do yourself a favour and pick up something else while the going is good. You're in the Southern US, so I would suggest perhaps something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SONY-MZ-NF610-Type-S-Net-MD-Walkman-MiniDisc-Player-Recorder-Blue-Works/333513305581 Even better might be a Hi-MD model, even if you only use it in NetMD mode, for two reasons: 1. The sound quality (of NetMD) is better and decoding more reliable 2. Transferring to the unit tends to be more reliable as a function of power, since the original NetMD devices can NOT get any power through the USB connector. Here's one of the most reliable models in that class: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-Walkman-MZ-NH700-Portable-Minidisc-Recorder-Player-With-Accessories/223893965159 In addition you get the HiMD formats, which more than doubles your effective disk capacity on existing MD blanks. Hope this helps. BTW, the fact that both these are in Canada is pure happenstance. Most of my own purchases were made in UK and US. I'm sure cross-border won't be a problem even in the age of the great plague.

Sorry this really wasn't in the right place. I have locked the topic you added it to, that thread is long enough. Admin

Exactly. Now you have to suppress Windows checking that hash. It's called "disable signature enforcement". IF you cannot, it is a fatal flaw of Windows10 version 1909, but I seriously doubt it. Good luck!

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sadly, you cannot uninstall feature updates thanks for the warning so far, every time MSFT comes out with an '09 update (September, that is) it breaks something major (the '03 versions seem much better as they fix the bugs in the previous fall's new features). But don't panic yet. Probably you have to REINSTALL the NetMD drivers (using the override of unsigned drivers). Hopefully it's nothing more than the failure to preserve unsigned drivers going forward to the next "edition" ('last windows ever'!?!?!) of Windows 10.

That rather depends on the disc you had inserted. Do you have any fresh ones? Is the "Disc mode" of the RH910 set to MD or HiMD? We need to know a bit more about your PC and the version of Windows, and specifically what happened that might have broken something. I'm thinking hardware failure, but the only way to check that is if you have another HiMD unit.

12th April 2020 To my surprise I was able to edit a post. Those of you who have the rights, please think VERY CAREFULLY before doing so yourselves. The situation is that I haven't heard a word back from the site's owner, Christopher. Except that the site mysteriously came back to (read-only) life more than once after completely crashing where it won't display anything except an error. It's still not possible to add any replies or start new topics (actually a topic will start and the heading is made but the content is always thrown away). Until he comes back from wherever and does something, we are stuck. The good news is, the site still works for downloads and reading any existing content. Happy Easter, y'all! sfbp

Sounds good. I was just in the middle of composing a message commenting on your proximity - which never got sent because Chris got my message and did his thing with updates at the precise moment I pressed "Submit Reply". I take no credit for the fixes but I have a hunch that ultimately the set of security changes that browsers are going through (and sites like this one) are driving the migration (there have been a lot of update notifications from Invision lately) of sites. TBH I'm always a little wary when someone unfamiliar happens along and tells me the world is round (when I know it's flat) - or vice-versa. Thanks for persisting with this, and I look forward to sharing stories. Stephen PS there is no sign that Eric Woudenberg has "given up" on the minidisc.org site - there just isn't that much more to add these days.

Fixed Sorry about that.

Someone out there got banned and doesn't like it (or us). Funny place, the internet - all these different ways to diss those you don't believe in. I can take a look if you send me privately any IPs that don't work.

Where on earth did you read that? Someone having a bad day, or someone who thought they'd maybe taken us out (there have been several attempts over the last few years).

Yeah, having acquired the "magic" Gold Peak charger for prism batteries (NH-14WM etc) that actually charged Sony's gumsticks properly, I took it on a holiday to Europe and..... BANG! I had failed to notice it was 120V only, unlike most charger devices. My sister was not amused when the electrics in her posh condo tripped with it. Now I can't even get a replacement. Sigh.

Have you checked to see if the write-protect slider is closed? If it's open, the disk will be write-protected. In the alternative, if all your MD's have the slot closed (ie writeable) then maybe the sensor which reads the state of the write-protect notch is intermittent?

Very interesting! Does that include other formats like WMA?

All reports are that MP3 on second generation units doesn't sound so good. YMMV. That's why Sound Forge 9 is suggested. The biggest problem with MP3 is that there are a gazillion variants (VBC/CBR, joint/real stereo, and on and on) and also many bit rates which don't sound so good. If it works for you on the 910, great.

If it's coming from the unit, it might be a good idea to take the cover off the drive itself and observe the movements of the head when it's making these noises. Only if you feel reasonably technically competent. I'd hate for you to ruin a working machine. One clue can be if the minidisc inserted is getting hot. That may be a sign the drive is out of alignment (or Laser Power maladjusted, or both). Have you tried DISABLING the NetMD function by the switch on the front panel? If this is connected to PC's USB but the wrong driver (you may need the 64-bit driver since most Windows installs are 64-bits nowadays), it's just possible this is some weird artifact of the PC and the JB980 arguing over that USB cable.

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If it worked in 2003 under XP, it will work in 2019 under Win7-32 and Win10-32. Surprise yourself with a fresh install of W7 - cost you nothing. At the end of it you will probably have the drivers that you can then extract and feed back into XP. Sony's support is (mostly) irrelevant, it's Microsoft's that you should care about. THEY don't want to deal with XP, which is why Sony blanked the hardware (under agreements with MSFT most likely). Microsoft's support for W7 ends in January. That's tomorrow (though I think the official cutoff date is the middle of the month). I've just done something quite similar with an IBM laptop from the mid-noughties. It runs W10 just fine (except that it's limited to 2GB which is all the hardware supports).

Try here. You may not not find the model you have but dollars to doughnuts there is a common set of components. For example the words "Conexant Audio" flashed by somewhere there whilst I was looking around. It's mostly a matter of trying different options. Successive OSs (7,10) have done this a bit more smoothly, although the price to be paid is that signatures are checked for validity and even drivers that you know SHOULD install, do not. However that behaviour is overrideable. I suspect you are about to become an expert on PIDs and VIDs. Sony is VID 054C, however for all I know (not much about Vaios) the sound card would be under its own vendor, Conexant. Good luck!

I'll look some more. But you should have no trouble with Windows 7. I recommend installing it BEFORE it finally goes out of circulation sometime next month. Running XP is like going hiking in the mountains with no compass and wearing sandals instead of boots. In my opinion, anyway. All your existing software should be installable on W7, there's no reason to resist it now. Trust me, Microsoft really really wants people off of XP, and I agree with them. The last decently designed OS was probably Windows 2000.

Here's the wireless driver: http://drivers-04.blogspot.com/2007/11/sony-pcg-9w1l-vgn-ax580g-wifi-wireless.html However you probably found that already. I'd be surprised if it (the driver set for your model) was specialised though. You say you want to run XP. How about trying Windows 10 32 bits (or if that is too great a shock, Windows 7 32 bits)? You might find that solved your problem....

That's rather a complicated statement, covering many different formats. If you want to use HiMD on the RH1, then it *should* work out of the box, provided you can play the tracks from SonicStage. If you cannot play them, try deleting from database and re-adding. If you want to make MDLP or SP disks, that's another issue entirely. You need to read about installing the NetMD driver (probably 64-bit). There are so many references here, I shan't repeat the information. The file you want is called NETMD760.zip (and of course the zip file's contents, .sys .cat .inf). Hope this helps! Note that if the "disc mode" on the RH1 is set to MD instead of HiMD, you WILL need the NetMD driver anyway, no matter what. You can get around this problem by changing the disc mode, but honestly you are better to bite the bullet and install NETMD760.