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The workaround is to use another program, like dbpoweramp (in Downloads) to convert them to .wav and then let SonicStage import those.

You don't need bass rolloff because the DS70P has no bass: its range is 100-15000 Hz. It's also bigger than you think it's going to be, if stealth is one of your considerations. Why not try this: http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/...=specifications which is probably the same as your other SoundPros mic in a one-point arrangement, and cheaper than the DS70P. Frequency response: 20-20,000 Hz, and you'd probably want to use it with an attenuator (mic-in) or a battery module (line-in) if you're recording anything amplified. The DS70P's advantage, is some situations, is that it's directional--it's supposed to record primarily what's in front of it instead of all around. But I think you would find it sounded tinny after a full-spectrum (20-20000 Hz) mic.

If you can play them back from the disc in the RH10 through the computer--using SonicStage to control the disc playback--then you could use the Total Recorder method to record them in realtime. Check partway down this post for Total Recorder. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=6330 Generally, .oma is not a format to store things in. You should keep an unencrypted copy.

Try Dbpoweramp from Downloads. Don't know if it will work with m4a but it converts just about everything else. You may need to go to the dbpoweramp site and get a plugin for it.

Alternatives? No. We wish. Artist sort: View/ All Tracks/Artist.

Completely uninstall 3.3 with the registry cleanup shown in this post: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=8071 Then try installing again--with the Sony online installer if you've got a good fast internet connection, or with the offline installer. Open SonicStage before connecting your unit, then connect and see if it's recognized. After a clean uninstall, it should be. If it still doesn't recognize the unit, then close SS and run the MDAC Repair Tool from Downloads.

You'll have to burn them on the computer you uploaded them to. Every installation of SonicStage is keyed to the computer it is on. Your .oma files are encrypted to that key. SonicStage is specifically designed to prevent you from playing the encrypted files on anything but the original computer. It's just about the only thing the program has always implemented well. The way to make the files portable is to import them into SonicStage and convert them to .wav, which is not encrypted (or use HiMDRenderer to convert them to another format). The conversion to uncompressed .wav (or .flac with HiMDRenderer) should not affect the sound quality. If you are listening to the .oma files from the minidisc and the .wav files through the computer, then you are listening to the quality of your soundcard and not the files. Have you tried the MDAC Repair Tool (from Downloads, upper right on this page) on the home laptop? It might help SonicStage recognize the unit.

Can you be more specific about the files that don't transfer? Low bitrates (usually 48 kpbs) and variable bitrates have been known to give SonicStage trouble. Also, is it possible you accidentally added digital rights to your ATRAC rips? I believe that was the default in a previous SonicStage.

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070

SonicStage sometimes has trouble with 48kbps mp3 files. Are they low-bitrate mp3s?

Welcome to MD-land. That's a great price for the N710. Get yourself a mic and you might be using it for more than transferring music. SonicStage (get it from Downloads up on the right) will convert mp3s to SP for your discs. If you get a SonicStage disc with the unit DON'T USE IT. It's an old bad version. Use 3.3 from here. Flac or ogg files need to be converted first to mp3 (or wav if you've got the disc space) to be transferred by SonicStage. You can use Dbpoweramp, also in Downloads.

Frankly I don't think it's worth it. Your car deck only plays in SP mode: that is, 74 or 80 minutes of music per disc. So each minidisc is going to hold only a CD's worth of music. While SP is a very good-sounding format, getting the music from mp3 to SP is still going to involve a conversion that is going to lose quality from the mp3s. I suggest instead that you use a CD-burning program like Nero that will turn your mp3s into audio discs playable by your CD player. But you can do it if you're eager. You would need to get a portable unit that can download music from your computer. That would be either a NetMD unit, which you can find used on Ebay, or a Hi-MD unit. Look at the Browser tab at http://www.minidisc.org for the many models available. If you don't care about using the unit as a recorder, you can find a NH-600D for under $100 new. Old NetMD units--MZ-NE410, MZ-N505--are even less on Ebay, but look at the pictures for wear. You need a unit that begins MZ-N**. Units that begin MZ-Rxx don't connect to the computer (though just to confuse things, the newest Hi-MD units are MZ-RHxxx). You'd get a NetMD or the NH600D, install SonicStage on your PC (Windows only, no Mac or Linux), import the mp3s into the SonicStage Library and then transfer the music via USB to a disc in the portable. You'd set SonicStage to transfer in SP--the only format your deck plays, although the portable unit will offer other alternatives.

You can't reformat what's on the disc. However, you could upload it into SonicStage. Then--not sure if this will work--you can download it to a regular MD format. If it doesn't work, convert the uploaded file to .wav and then download the .wav files back onto regular MD.

First step: Do a careful uninstall as explained here, then reinstall 3.3. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=8071

It looks like you rotate the tip for Display, P-Mode, etc., and then push the button--is that right? More important, does this have the recording functions of the RM-MC40ELK? Specifically, level monitoring and track marking? Thanks.

Q: Did the Sony engineers sound like they actually knew computers and SS, or were they reading from some script? If you do think they were actually connecting with you instead of just blowing you off, then, well, how difficult would it be to remove the graphics card and extra RAM? I'm just wondering: If you were to do that (and one more full-registry uninstall), and then you got SonicStage 3.3 to finally finish installing, maybe you could then put the card and RAM back in and SS 3.3 would continue to work since it was already installed. No, I don't believe in Santa Claus. You're probably sick of the whole thing by now. But if you feel like making one more sacrifice for the cause....

For a player only, you can find the NH600D for under $100 (D means it will also download music from your computer via USB, but it does not have any recording input--you'd use your deck for that). Runs a long time on a Duracell, and so far mine has been pretty sturdy. It doesn't come with a remote but it does have an input that will accept one. Get two, they're cheap. For the equivalent of line out, just turn the volume all the way up and make sure the EQ is set to Normal. Or get an NH700--with recording capability--while Minidisc Canada has the closeouts. http://www.minidisc-canada.com/shopdisplay...iniDisc+Players

Will the backed up files work with SonicStage newly installed on a second computer?

Why don't you just download HiMDRenderer and try it? It's free. I can't help you with a comparison because I don't use my NetMD any more.

Glad it works for you--sounds like it's a good solution. Certainly more convenient than realtime recording out of the MZ-R700 headphone jack. For myself, I'd still prefer Hi-MD if only for the possibility of PCM. (Though 320 kbps mp3 is probably better than Hi-SP.) Also, you have to keep uploading the recordings to the PC to have room on the unit. One 80-min. MD holds more than 256MB. I had read that the Iriver recorders sometimes have gaps in recording as they write. Seems you don't have that problem, so that's good. It would be essential to know if new IFP-890s have the "upgrade" already installed. That would make it useless for music.

Get Marcnet's Hi-MDRenderer, which now has the same functionality. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=12683 Only Hi-MD units and recordings made in Hi-MD formats (PCM, Hi-SP, Hi-LP) can be uploaded digitally. Anything made on a NetMD recorder has to be recorded out of the MD into your computer in real time. WinNmD or Hi-MDRenderer only help automate the process--they don't speed it up.

Maybe I'm hallucinating, because I can't find it in the menus of SS 3.3, but I seem to remember some checkbox somewhere saying something like "Apply DRM to this recording." It was checked by default, but could be unchecked. If you've got a previous version of SS, look through the Options, including the Advanced settings, to see if that's being applied. Or upgrade to 3.3.

One other thing you could try would be to mount an image drive with Nero or daemon tools, then have Simple Burner (or SonicStage) read from the image drive as if it's a CD drive, then delete the albums from the image drive.

The comparison in this thread http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=13562 pretty much killed any gadget lust I had for the M-Audio MicroTrack. Listen to how much noise the mic preamp adds! Maybe the next generation MicroTrack (and price drops for compact flash cards) will finally displace MD, but it seems like you have to go with a preamp or an outboard analog-digital converter to get the full potential out of this one. And that's more money and another box to carry around.

Voice recorders really aren't made for music, or even for high-quality voice recording. They're for dictating memos, and they do an excellent job for that. But music is a much more complex signal than spoken word. For high fidelity, you need the larger capacity and uncompressed sound (PCM) or musically oriented compressed sound (Hi-SP) that you can get on minidisc--or, if you want to go a more expensive route with a worse microphone preamp, flash recorders like the M-Audio Microtrack. I don't know what kind of saxophone you play, but the range of a B-flat tenor sax is 110-630 Hz (and higher if you're overblowing like Pharoah Sanders). There are also overtones in every note you play--multiples of the basic frequencies, way up there--that define the timbre of your sound. Sony Digital Voice Recorders--even the $300 ones!--don't provide specs for frequency response. I can guarantee, however, that a 16MB memory stick is not going to hold as much sonic information as a 1GB Hi-MD. Here are the frequency response specs for the Olympus top-of-the-line DS-330 voice recorder: Overall Frequency Response SP mode: 300 to 5,000 Hz. LP mode: 300 to 3,000 Hz. (Forget the lower octave of your saxophone.) Here are the frequency response specs for minidisc and, incidentally, most people's ears: 20-20,000 Hz. It makes a difference.