Greetings, thank God this place exist, MD still rocks... anyways...
My Hi-MD should be here tomorrow, can't wait to mess w/ that, but before I shelled out the cash for that, I needed a way to put my old MD's on my PC.
Only thing is, these new laptops do not CARRY THE LINE IN JACK ANYMORE.
Had to figure something out... have a DVD recorder, can do up to six hour on that, so it was MD Audio out - DVD rec in, plus the vid sig form a portable DVD player. Finalize, back into PC, rip the audio with DVDFAB via .wav or 192 KBPS mp3 depending on the material.
Not nearly as good as that option, I actually got a little iriver E100, with line in. Highest quality is 192 kbps WMA+ via line in, down to 96 kbps.
For stuff like old talk radio, 128 kpbs is perfect, and you get like 68 hours on the devices built in 4 gb hd. 192 I think gives you 45 hours or so.
Problem with the iriver is that there is a slight squeal when you put it on line in rec, no matter what the source... a little disappointing, but once I uplaoded them back into the PC, I didn't hear anything... doesn't mean it's not there, although I did put the file in Audution and didn't see any anomolies, but w/e...
Any other methods to transfer MD to PC with no line in? Until I purchased my hi-md, I was seriously considering a stand alone CD recorder... but couldn't find ANYTHING at a reasonable price point...