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You were right! the joint stereo thing was checked. I re-encoded it and now it was almost as good as the 320kbit mp3. (I couldn't hear a difference). I don't know what the coded is called. I believe Fraunhofer II or something. then it was better than the 132 atrac after all. I'm not sure what you mean with the labeling. what happened was the following. I was copying music to hi-mds. I hade a couple of colored 80mTDK's from 2005 (?) left. I ran out and began to use old md's (netmds) from 2000. There were more noizy and dusty and slower. I deleted their tracks in sonicstage or initialized them as a himd. And the System File Writing took forever. But it worked. but I wasn't able to copy music to the md's. whatever track I tried. then after ejecting them and loading them again. the md recorder said "read error" and I can't do anything with it. the computer can't acces them. Is there a way to format "read error" disks? and how do I make sonicstage work again?

I did some testing today and I must admit that I was wrong. I used Adobe Audition to convert A No Doubt song to MP3 @ 320, a fast 128kbit and a slow one that should be better. Also I converted the song to Atrac 132 66 and 105.(I also converted it to atrac+48,128,192 but sonicstage crashed so I can't play it back) I was very surprised that the sound from atrac 132 wasn't that different from 320kbit mp3! The track Excuse me mr. starts with a guitar panned almost on one side. One the 132atrac and the 320kbit mp3 the unused channel was still completely clear. (like you only want to hear beautiful guitar reverb and studio room feedback instead of strange noize) On the 128kbit mp3s (and 105,66atrac) it wasn't. However the higher frequencies of the drums sound better on the 128mp3 than on the 132kbit atrac file. So to save space 132 atrac is great and you only lose a little bit in the high frequencies. mp3 is more unreliable what it does with extreme panning. I'd like to do more tests but sonicstage crashed and won't work, so I'm afraid I'm done with MD. today it deleted 5 md's before sonicstage crashed.

My first md recorder was a mzr37. It started erasing disks after a year of intense use. after a while it only said "no disk". Then I was so stupid to buy a new sony mzr 501(because I had a lot of md's) After exactly one year it started to erase disks and also after a while "no disk". I was so angry at sony that I spend hundreds of euros on appliances that erased precious homemade self-written songs and stuff. I sprayed my mzr37 with deodorant and lit it on fire, I grabbed a hammer and hit it several times. It was still able to say "no disk" after a few days haha I was done with minidisc, but in 2005 (2 years later) there was a sale at a big store where I bought a MZ-NH600 for 55 Euros. it was actually pretty good for about 5 years and I can still play (most) my old md's with it. It does a few issues. I once bought a 1GB md and it said read error after only 1 use. And also half of my md's are now "read error" something, and I can't format or do anything about it. The only thing I like about mindisk is that you can take AA batteries with you and use your device a whole vacation without charging and recording on HIMD with my band and then transferring it back to a laptop was great. Other than that it sucks. ATRAC is such bad quailty. If you use a good mp3 encoder, even 128kbit is crystal clear in the high frequencies. Atrac just makes the music sound like an old tape and less stereo. SP sounds good I guess. The MZ-NH600 is pretty strong. It fell a lot of times over the years and the lid is now held to the device with ductape and it still works. I like to thank this forum for sonicstage 4.3, now I can still use mds in my car