Thanks for the quick reply,
I've been an MD fan since '98 or so but since about '05 I have made it my mission to run everything on MD. I think this was as a bit of a rebellion from the ipod and itunes (which I have never owned and refuse to use). All of a sudden Apple came out with a portable music player and the next thing everyone couldn't go anywhere without their music and made a real point of saying so. I was like 'us MD people have been doing this for years' nothing new here. So now I love driving to the snow with my ipod mates and a mix up MD playing in the car then getting out and throwing that same MD in my portable and listening to it while I ride, then I can get hame and put the same MD on in the lounge room. Try doing that on your ipod. Removable media is the way to go. I may also have a thing for minority formats too as I am also a Laser Disc collector...
Rant over.
I LOVE my CMT-M333NT it works pretty much as an off-board sound card for my PC. Just plug in the USB cable and you can switch to the "PC" input on the unit and crank the awesome quality through those speakers. The NetMD function means that when ever I want to create an MD from SS it's already plugged in and waiting for me and with M-Crew all of the systems controls appear in a neat toolbar at the top of the screen. You can change inputs play stuff, adjust volume all from the mouse, pretty much anything you can do do with the remote is on screen.
I have the MDS-JB980 connected through a long USB repeater to the lounge room but as far as I know it's not M-Crew compatible. That being said, you do have control of the deck through SS when it is the active NetMD device and can play music remotely that way (Very cool).
On the Win7 issue again I saw that in another post titled "Windows 7 64-bit Sonicstage 4.3" you said in reply to a post stating that SS4.3 would work with Win764 "Sure, as long as you don't need NetMD compatibility. Presumably all of these devices speak Atrac3+, perhaps you conld confirm that it's possible/not-possible to upload from SP disk on RH1?"
NetMD is vital to my new PC so I just wanted to make sure this would work in a Win7 64/32 OS?
PS - I looked into the HTPC option but it was just a bit much for me at the moment as I don't really have any downloaded movies to stream as I prefer the old fashioned hard copies. Any video media I do have I can just stream through the X-Box 360 so that's doing the job for now. I did not know about the problems with sharing SS media to different users though. I'll be installing a small NAS and was planning on having that as the media hub so what was it that I need to be careful of here to ensure all computers on the network can access the media?
Best,
