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From your signature I'd say you feel the MD is superior to the iPod. While I wasn't specifically planning on an iPod, I was looking at replacing my MD player with an MP3 player of some kind (iPad, Zune, or something else) since I don't do live recordings any more and I'd prefer to exchange my 3 dozen MDs for a single player with a larger screen. But before I make a mistake, I wonder if you have a few specific reasons I may want to consider before I sell out.

Thank you! That was very useful.

Hey folks, I'm new to this forum, so I hope I've picked the right place to ask this. I'm desperately looking for a way to copy tracks from my tall stack of MiniDiscs back to my computer. I have some 3 dozen discs and much of it is recordings I've made off of audio cassettes I own, or personal live recordings. SonicStage does not seem to have a facility to rip FROM MiniDisc (only TO minidisc). Am I missing something, or is there some software out there that can rip from MD? I realize that there is a copyright protection concern here, but I seriously hope there's a way (even if it's hacky) to get the music and live recordings off of these discs. I've done a few discs already just using an analog patch cable from Line Out to my computer's Line In, and that was SUCH a pain! Getting the volume and sensitivity controls adjusted just right so that the quality is acceptable (no clipping, decent volume, decent signal to noise ratio) is a balancing act that has to be redone with each disk or even track. PLEASE tell me if you know how to do this. I'll buy software if it exists. It will seriously save me tons of time. I have a Sony Net MD Walkman MZ-N510 Type-S. Thanks.