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oh my god, say it isn't so. i am going to get soooo f---ing depressed if that happens. i swear, it'll really break my heart. i was semi-screaming already when i received kurisu's e-mail to the minidisc forum members about this news.

there's an engadget post on that. supposedly the “Sound Lifter” "points the speakers’ output up in an effort to enhance sound quality should you place the system somewhere low such as your floor". i'm not so sure what that means and stuff. heheh.

hi chris! well, i'll do another 'cast in a few weeks when i get back to my dorm (and broadband internet). =) i downloaded windows media player 10 and it worked fine already. at that time i suspected that it could be because my windows xp's default WMP 9 codecs were maybe too old for sonicstage/ simple burner. but i couldn't download WMP 10 because i was home on summer vacation, on a slow slow slooow dial-up connection. but anyway i managed to download WMP 10 and it worked fine after that. the cd-preparation thing. thanks for asking!

hi, i didn't have this problem with Simple Burner before. not on my regular computer. the thing is, i'm living somewhere else right now (temporarily), using a different computer. i installed simple burner and sonicstage, both installed fine. but when i put in a cd and tried to rip the tracks to md using Simple Burner, it said that it wanted to test my cd drive. i clicked "start" and then after a while it said that "this handle is invalid" so it can't go on testing. but if it doesn't succeed testing it wouldn't let me directly rip to md either. grrr.. sonicstage works okay though. i'm using win xp pro sp2. can anyone help me? has anyone encountered this before?

this is the first site i've ever seen which has a url icon with that kind of effect!

some of my classmates use Sound Forge for sound editing for putting in their animations. it's a product that used to be made by a company called Sonic Foundry (cool name!) but has since been bought by Sony (maker of our beloved minidiscs!). heheh.. i don't know much about it since i haven't really really used it. just fooled around a bit on someone's computer. but it seems very full featured. i don't know if it's hard to use though. my classmate had Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 6. that's the one i played with for about 10 minutes. i think by version 7 it's already named Sony Sound Forge. i don't know if it changed much. maybe you could download a free trial from here .

i found MDCF through minidisc.org ages ago. around 2002. at that time i was looking for information on my broken mz-r900. i posted a couple of messages and that was it. i wasn't able to get the mz-r900 fixed though, so i left the md world for three years, until this year. i got my mz-r900 fixed and also bought a net md. heheheh.. actually when i first started browsing MDCF i wasn't sure if it would still accept my user name as i hadn't logged on in years. but it did. i first tried logging on again either in march or april this year. i think there was a short period of a few days when MDCF was out. so when i saw the site was down i thought that MDCF has ceased to be. i actually got kind of sad. but when i checked back a few days later it was up again.

hi! thanks for helping out. anyway i figured out the problem already. it's the "skin". i used "old default" and in my browser the little photo (the white box with a microphone and "live recording") below the music files doesn't show up. i don't know if it's just my browser though (i use Firefox). i changed to "Olive You MDCF" and now it's fine.

i don't know where to click to download media files in the gallery. it's so strange. if i want to view a photo, the photo shows up below the file's title and remarks. but for media files, all i see is the file name (but no clickable link) and then info like uploaded by whom and file size.. i posted a screenshot of what i see in my computer above. does this happen to other people too?

just to make sure we're talking about the same thing.. i'm referring to the *old* (well, from a couple of years back) net md mdlp unit mz-n10. not the newfangled hi-md 910s.. but yeah, i'm sure it's a good unit.

really? haha. i was planning to buy an N10. but i didn't want to get stuck when its built in lithium ion battery dies out. that's the main reason i don't want to get an iPod. now that you've told me about its proprietary usb cable, that's another con dissuading me from buying the N10. i always lose things and i'm gonna be dead if i lose that cable. anyway i already ordered an N910. hehehe.. thanks for the info!

hi.. sometimes i record internet radio broadcasts to my r900 for listening to on days when i have nothing to listen to. anyway, i'm doing one of these recording sessions right now as i type, and i suddenly thought of something. what's the difference between the different internet radio station providers? like windows media player radio, winamp radio, itunes radio, live365 radio, shoutcast radio, etc? i know winamp uses shoutcast but what about the others? for example i noticed that winamp/shoutcast radio gives the song and title name of the current song playing but windows media player radio does not. i also noticed that iTunes radio doesn't give you info about the radio station when you right-click unlike the others. can someone enlighten me on this? i'm really curious about it. thanks!

hello! the iRiver SlimX series is a good line of mp3 cd players. imp-300, 400 and 550 i think. the imp-550 line is very thin and light. i've handled it in a shop. i think the battery life is pretty good too. and if you play mp3 cds the remote control displays the title and id3 tag information. some mp3 cd players don't and it's annoying as hell. i think if you're going to buy a cd player in this day and age, might as well buy one which can play mp3 cds on top of being able to play normal audio cds for the convenience. the price range is about the same anyway.

hello, i've been thinking of buying another md player in the near future. i'm either going to buy a net md or one of the new hi-md ones. for hi-md i'm thinking of choosing between an nh1 and an rh10. is it true that the rh10, the newest MD recorder, won't allow you to record using it without formatting your old discs to hi-md? i was browsing through old old posts earlier but i wasn't sure if i hallucinated that one so i'm asking it here. anyway if that's really the case i'll probably be choosing between an nh1 or a net md and ignore the rh10. i want to be able to record stuff that'll still be playable on my mz-r900 (old old old i know).

yay! can't wait! message me when you put them up! so far there's only one member (kurisu) with photos of MD blanks in the gallery.