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  7. Best MD deck machine for use with Web Minidisc Pro or Platinum MD

    in Technical, Tips, and Tricks

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    9 minutes ago, BearBoy said:

    One of the results of the different containers/file types is that WMD doesn't seem to recognise the SP .aea files so you can't rip them from one MiniDisc and then copy them back to another without do some sort of file conversion. Unless I'm missing something obvious?

    No, you aren't missing anything obvious. NetMD doesn't support putting raw ATRAC1 back on the discs. However, if you would like to test it, here's the unreleased version of WMD, which does support that on some devices: https://testing.minidisc.wiki/b0824780-3c0c-11ed-b994-2c56dc399093/

     

    10 minutes ago, BearBoy said:

    The other thing we noticed was that when you rip LP2 tracks from a MiniDisc and then try to copy them over to another one, they get added to the new MD in reverse order.

    That is a bug I am aware of, I'll fix it as soon as possible. It's still not fixed in the testing version I linked above.

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  8. Best MD deck machine for use with Web Minidisc Pro or Platinum MD

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    @BearBoy - Yes - there's a difference. ATRAC3 data is stored in WAV, because the RIFF container (the specification that WAV files follow) allow that to happen. For ATRAC1 I couldn't go with WAV, since ATRAC1 isn't supported by the RIFF container. Instead WMD downloads these files as AEA (an old format that was created by MD Editor I think). Sir68k - another developer of netmd-exploits managed to add the ATRAC1 specification to the matroska file format, and we'll probably also try to do the same with ATRAC3, so that the container format will be unified. I'll soon publish a patch to FFMPEG which patch the matroska demuxer there. AEA files are terrible because it's hard to identify them - they don't have a "magic number", unlike WAVs, so the sooner we switch from them the better.

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  9. Best MD deck machine for use with Web Minidisc Pro or Platinum MD

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    I'm not sure - I haven't looked at the Windows side of things personally, since I use Linux and the libusb driver gets loaded there automatically (no Zadig or any tool like that required), but I don't think I could get the Sony driver to work with Web Minidisc unfortunately, or even if it were possible, I just don't think it would justify the amount of work required to do so unfortunately. The solution that could solve all the problems would be to make a custom driver that just modifies the libusb inf file to include all the NetMD devices - then you wouldn't need to reinstall Zadig for every device. I might look into that at some point.

  12. Best MD deck machine for use with Web Minidisc Pro or Platinum MD

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    1 minute ago, BearBoy said:

    Feel a bit bad for requesting something I've ended up not making much use of 😳 Well, although I've never really used it, I am sure lots of people are very grateful for your efforts 😀

     

    Don't worry about it - I got myself a Sony LAM for testing and ended up falling in love with the whole LAM series of devices. I have 3 now, so I use that functionality regularly 😆

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  13. Best MD deck machine for use with Web Minidisc Pro or Platinum MD

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    9 minutes ago, BearBoy said:

    I can't say I have ever encountered any bugs, not that I can recall anyway. Both of the things I originally flagged as being nice to have (ALAC support and compatibility with Sony NetMD decks) have both been implemented, although I've stuck to using portable devices tbh.

    Yeah the Sony NetMD decks were a painful mess to implement 😆.

     

    11 minutes ago, BearBoy said:

    One thing that is a (very minor) inconvenience is having to re-install the drivers if I connect a different model of NetMD Walkman (e.g. if I change from using an MZ-N910 to an MZ-N920). Note sure if there is anything that could be done about this but it is only a minor issue and I generally just stick to using the same device.

    That's the problem with using Zadig, Web Minidisc can't do anything about it, sorry...

     

    21 minutes ago, BearBoy said:

    I'm afraid I can't help you with your MZ-R3 problem but it might be worth starting a thread asking for assistance. There are others on here who are much more clued up on the technical side of things than I am. Good luck!

    Thanks, I'll try that later.

  14. Best MD deck machine for use with Web Minidisc Pro or Platinum MD

    in Technical, Tips, and Tricks

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    Hi! Thanks for the kind words, if you have any suggestions or bugs to report, please let me know :).

     

    I got into MD for the first time in 2016 thanks to the first Techmoan MD video ("Minidisc: An appreciation" I think it was called), when I got myself an MZ-R3, that died a few years later with error 40. Now I own 5 MZ-R3s - 1 working and 4 dead. If you know any fixes for that dreaded error 40, please let me know - I'd love to fix it one day.

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    It's impossible to create a new account here using standard methods.

    in The Loft

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    Hello!

    Just thought I'll report it here, if you're trying to create an account without a connection with an already existing account like Google or alike, it's simply impossible to do so, because of incorrectly loaded reCaptcha.

    To make this account I had to rewrite the part of the site responsible for the captcha.

    If anyone else is experiencing the same difficulties, here are the steps I used to create my account:

    1. Go to https://forums.sonyinsider.com/register/
    2. In devtools, open the `head` tag and remove all the scripts that mention recaptcha
    3. Add a new script, with `src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js"`
    4. Execute the following JavaScript code:  
      const captcha = document.querySelector("[data-ipscaptcha]");
const parent = captcha.parentElement;
captcha.remove();
const newCaptcha = document.createElement("div");
parent.appendChild(newCaptcha);
grecaptcha.ready(() => grecaptcha.render(newCaptcha, {sitekey: "6LdgERMTAAAAAC4kTmm7BH1laShX3teATAV_6FIY"}));

       

    5. After that, you should be able to click on the captcha and create your account by executing the following JS code (the submit button is broken): 
      document.querySelector("form").submit();
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  16. Best MD deck machine for use with Web Minidisc Pro or Platinum MD

    in Technical, Tips, and Tricks

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    Hello @kgallen!

    I personally recommend any of the Sony Type-S portables. They're the most reliable when it comes to maintaining a connection to Web Minidisc Pro. Type-R portables like the MZ-N1 and alike still sometimes drop the connection mid-transfer.

    Sony Type-S portables should also work best with Platinum, but I haven't tested it - they're just the most lax when it comes to following the restrictions imposed by the NetMD protocol.

    When it comes to downloading data off of MDs via Web Minidisc Pro, that functionality only works on Sony non-HiMD portables - with Type-S you can achieve ~5x real time speed when ripping SP (~10x LP2, ~20x LP4), with Type-R ~0.5x for standard SP. It's impossible on the decks and non-Sony devices for now.

     

    I myself use an MZ-N520 for pretty much everything and it's been very reliable, but I expect other Type-S portables to be the same.
    Also, Web Minidisc Pro can use a remote Sony encoder hosted by the Wiki, which might produce better ATRAC3 than even SonicStage.

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