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Way beyond my technical "abilities" to offer any advice but maybe someone on here might have some suggestions?

My CDP-XB740 displays CD Text in all caps but, so far at least, recordings to my MDS-JB940 seem to render them on MiniDisc with the correct mixture of capital and lower case letters. Like you say though, using a keyboard to title/correct titles only takes a minute or so anyway. Was a gamechanger for me when I got a keyboard compatible deck as I'd previously been using the remote for my MDS-JE500. Don't really recall it being a huge pain at the time but I cannot imagine going back to it now.

I was having some weird happenings with this yesterday. The MD I recorded came from multiple CD sources. Sometimes it would overwrite the MD disc name with whatever the name of the CD was but sometimes it didn't. Wasn't really paying enough attention to pick up on whether there was any sort of pattern 🤔

Anything salvageable? Although I'm not sure I'd fancy pulling a portable apart with my middle aged man eyesight and sausage fingers... 🤓

Despite having 3 decks connected up in my office, I've spent today listening to my MZ-R909 hooked up via line out into my office system. Variety is the spice of life and all that 🙂 The disc I'm listening to was recorded yesterday using my CDP-XB740 / MDS-JB940 combo so that the CD Text track titles came over with the recording via Control A1 II. I decided to go back to the old school methods after spending a few hours doing some tests with NetMD Wizard and CD2NetMD. Sometimes simple can be more satisfying, I think, even if it is slower 🤔

You can find download links for NetMD Wizard here: https://github.com/Jo2003/cd2netmd_gui/releases You can download the current version (2.1.4) but also older releases: 2.1.3 / 1.9.2 / 1.8.5 / 1.8.1 / 1.7.7 etc

Thought I'd give it a go with my MZ-N710. Pretty similar results. The 4 track CD actually worked okay but the 12 track one failed after track 2. Tried the 12 track CD in CD2NetMD v1.8.1 and it transferred without issue. Not sure where the issue might lie but it seems to affect three different models of NetMD devices on my PC and happens with different CDs. I did need to run Zadig to re-install the drivers to get my PC to talk to the MZ-N710.

Tried my MZ-N910 with NetMD Wizard and experienced the same transfer failures with the 4 track and 12 track CDs (although not at the exact same points in the process). Tried it with CD2NetMD v1.8.1 and both 4 track and 12 track CDs transferred across without any issues. Interestingly, I did not have to run Zadig to re-install the drivers when switching back from the MZ-N920 to the MZ-N910 as I had to do when switching the other way. @Distorted Vision - I wonder whether it's worth trying an earlier version of NetMD Wizard to see if that works okay as CD2NetMD v1.8.1 from February 2022 seems to work fine (the app was renamed to NetMD Wizard from v1.9.2 onwards by the looks of things)?

Okay, so I installed NetMD Wizard v2.1.4 and then ran Zadig to install the drivers for my MZ-N920. I loaded the CD in the app and it picked up the Artist/Disc Title/Track Titles okay. Mode was set to SP and I selected "Transfer", rather than "DAO Transfer. It transferred the first 2 tracks across to a blank MD okay but when the MD-Transfer indicator for track 3 reached 100%, the process seemed to stall and I got this error message: Only the first two tracks were showing in the MiniDisc window in the app but when I put the MD into one of my decks, however, track 3 had transferred across okay but no sign of track 4 (it was a 4 track CD single). I erased the disc and then tried again with CD2NetMD v1.8.1 (an earlier version of NetMD Wizard). This time it all worked without any issues: Erased the disc again and re-tried with NetMD Wizard and got the error message again at the same point. Tried a different CD (a 3 track CD single this time) and it transferred across without any issues: Erased the disc again and tried a 12 track CD album. This time I got the error message when the the transfer of the first track had reached 100% but no tracks were showing in the MD window. When I tried to re-load the MD window in the app, I got this error message: I disconnected and re-connected my MZ-N920 and then the first track did show in the MD window (and played without issues in my deck). I'll do the same tests with an MZ-N910 and see what happens.

I'm on Windows 10 as well. Will give it a go this evening and let you know how I get on. Just out of interest, is there any reason you want to use NetMD Wizard rather than Web MiniDisc Pro? I think one of the benefits of NetMD Wizard when I last looked at it was that it apparently did gapless transfers to SP: I've not tested a gapless transfer on Web MiniDisc Pro for a while so not sure if that is now capable of doing them as well.

Is NetMD Wizard the app that started off as CD2NetMD? I've got CD2NetMD installed but haven't used it in a long time. I tend to just use Web MiniDisc Pro. I don't recall having any issues with CD2NetMD though. I would probably have been using it with an MZ-N910. Not sure if I ever tried it with my MZ-N920. I could test it with my N920 if that would be of any help?

Also found this: LINK Didn't fix the person's issue in that instance but might be worth a try?

Hello @TOC Reading. I wondered if the Service Manual might shed some light on what the various Error codes relate to but unfortunately it too just states that Error XX is a fatal error and to contact your Yamaha dealer. If it's any use, you can find a copy of the Service Manual here: https://www.minidisc.wiki/_media/equipment/yamaha/pro/yamaha_md8_recorder_service_manual.pdf I did find this list of error codes on another forum but unfortunately the links to various Yamaha support pages it included now appear to be dead: Link: LINK

I thought I had recorded somewhere which belts I had replaced and when but I cannot find it now 🤦‍♂️ Probably should have used stickers on the back rather than a spreadsheet, which I now can't seem to locate.

Hi @Vincent Sherry. There's a guy based in Hong Kong over on the r/minidisc Reddit who might be able to sort you out with one. His username is u/gerry88inHongKong. He seems to be able to get hold of pretty much every obscure MiniDisc accessory going.

Must have been stressful getting thrown in at the deep end at such short notice like that but it sounds like you, and your trusty MD decks, managed to get Cinderella to the ball (or whichever panto it was you were doing 😉 ) I wonder what the life expectancy of an eject belt is? I've only ever replaced mine when they've failed (or sometimes as a precaution if I happened to have a deck open and know the belt is old). Bit different if you're reliant on them for something like a live theatre show.

Congrats on getting them working @sfbp Did they turn out to be USB controllable?

Happy New Year @Richard 🙂

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you have a great 2024.

Hi @jonathan roberts. Welcome to the forum! I'm not a SonicStage user, so unfortunately cannot help with that side of things, but you can bypass SonicStage for NetMD devices these days by using Web MiniDisc Pro: https://web.minidisc.wiki/ There is a guide to how to use it on the MiniDisc Wiki site: https://www.minidisc.wiki/guides/webminidisc I know other members here do still use SonicStage so hopefully someone will be able to help you with your NW-E95.

Excellent 🙂

Stefano (cybercase) and asivery, the developers, show up here from time to time but the quickest way is probably to try via the MiniDisc Wiki's Discord server: https://discord.gg/Vm29q3nuUk There's a "software help" section there that asivery is active in.

Hey Philippe. Good to see you're still around 🙂

Glad to hear your example hasn't suffered the same fate as Techmoan's. Looks like a really smart hybrid type of set up. There are loads of powered speakers about - lots of musical instrument shops stock them for home studio monitoring purposes. I've got a pair of Tannoys set up in my office, which I listen to MiniDiscs through whilst I am working. Not too sure how common they are in silver though if you wanted something to match aesthetically.

New Techmoan MiniDisc video went up today: Might be worth opening it up if anyone has one of these...