Hi all,
I recently found some really old 74 min. minidiscs. Actually 2 of them. I had a MD player when I was in high school --my dad bought 1 for me refurbished. It worked great and it was compact although when I think about it now, it was more like a brick. It was rectangular shaped and with the double A battery pack screwed on to the side looked even more strange. I really liked the MD player because I felt like I was a music producer of some sorts. I would record via the Line In via either CD player or whatever I had on my computer. I really enjoyed it and I enjoyed swapping out the discs. It made me look cool. It was even cooler when I saw minidiscs in The Matrix. I decided to check out Ebay to see if I could buy another one since I seem to have lost the original MD player. I got a Net MD for a really great price and have been playing with it since.
I wish the software was still being updated. I have installed the driver and Sonic Stage 4.3 but I'm having huge issues with it. I was able to transfer music onto the discs, but for some reason I cannot erase the disc without Sonic Stage crashing and the display on my Net MD read "ERROR". Even when I delete tracks individually, it crashes. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I wish there was better software. I even downloaded RealPlayer, but it doesn't seem like it's supporting minidiscs anymore. I wonder if I should bring out my Dell Laptop as it is still running off WinXP. I even tried the compatability option for Sonic Stage hoping that if it were to run in WinXP/2000 mode, it would work better, but alas, it wouldn't even start and I had to reinstall the software.
Anyway, I am still fiddling with it and listening to some of the music I was into when I was in high school. It's like a time machine. :-) I love reading the topics in this forum and hope to hear from everyone soon.
