MCM635

Like most people here my interest in being able to do this is to upload my own analogue SP recordings to the PC via the USB interface, hopefully faster than real time. As has been stated many times before, I don't see why Sony should have control over my own recordings. From the discussion so far it looks like, this might be technically possible but rather difficult. I have had a brief look (in a hex editor) at the Net MD drivers (the Sony ones and the Sharp ones - I have a Sharp IM-DR400) and it looks like they are all written by a third party under licence/orders from Sony. The company is b square (www.bsquare.com), although I am sure they will be under a non-disclosure agreement with Sony so they probably won't be able to help.

Hello, I've read all the FAQs on Net MD to PC upload and I understand that this is only possible via an analogue real-time audio connection (made a lot easier if controlled by Win NMD) or digitally via USB if you have a Sony MZ-RH1 or MZ-M200. My question is - has anyone looked at spoofing an RH1 in software thereby allowing Sonic Stage to receive data from any Net MD device? I don't know enough about the Net MD protocols to know if this is possible, but my thoughts were based on the following assumptions: 1. The Net MD device is fairly dumb and under control of SS and the driver once it has verified its ID/Type/Model 2. The driver reports the Net MD device ID to SS, which then permits the appropriate operations 3. Sniffing USB data when down/uploading from any Net MD unit and an RH1 may allow the RH1 IDs to be identified 4. It may be possible to modify the driver for your non-RH1 device to allow it to pretend to be an RH1, thus allowing upload of data to SS. Alternatively a secondary driver sits between the Net MD driver and SS and performs the necssary modifications to the data stream. I have no knowledge of Windows device drivers or the details of the Net MD protocol, so this may be way off the mark. I am just intrigued to know if anyone with more knowledge in these areas thinks that this would be technically feasible. Thanks

Hi, I'm a newbie here, but have searched the forum without finding what I was after, so hopefully someone may be able to help. I have a Marantz CM635 CD/MD combo deck which I have had for about 8 years. Recently the MD drive seems to have become more temperamental - a disk it once recorded to and played now won't even load - makes a sort of grinding sound then spits the disk out. Other disks sometimes take a few attempts to load, but once loaded are OK for recording and playing. I am now concerned that the MD drive is on its way out. I really like this deck - one button dubbing from CD to MD, slim - and would hate to have to replace it with separate CD and MD decks. Has anyone got any experience of replacing an MD drive? As I understand it there were only ever a few manufacturers and I believe that Marantz used a Sharp drive in their decks - would any Sharp drive do or would I need to find another CM635 (extremely unlikely). Could this just be a case of the drive requiring cleaning? If so, would I need to dismantle the deck to do so? Thanks in advance for any advice. Michael