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Does anyone know by chance if the MZ-N1 & MZ-N10 use the same AA dry battery attachment?

You can transfer optical recordings to PC just fine with all HiMD recorders. However the built-in WAV converter for SonicStage will not convert the optically recorded files. A workaround is to use MarC's HiMdRenderer. That is only for PC though... Not sure if and when a MAC utility will come around that can do the same.

bjsilva, Do you happen to know for sure if he will be able to upload digital/optical recordings done with the M100 to his MAC?

I would think that you would be able to record via the TOSlink... The HiMD will convert the signal down to 44.1 though. If you need to upload to MAC, there are two new HiMD recorders available with this ability. The MZ-M10 & MZ-M100. Is there any way on the preamp to control the TOSlink settings? EDIT: I'm not sure if you would be able to upload the Optical recordings or not with those new recorders to your MAC. I know SonicStage gives you hell when you try to convert optical recordings that you've uploaded to WAV, but there are ways around that at least. Sorry to post again, but I was reading the manual for your preamp, and it looks like you may have to make some adjustments to set the optical out to S/PDIF ... I don't think HiMD recorders understand AES3. http://www.gracedesign.com/support/v3_manual_RevD_online.pdf

Are your mp3 files on a seperate hard drive by chance?

Well, I'm in the USA... But my neighbors seem to think that our music is much louder during the evening.

No dice, Dex. Just tried it out and this is the result:

In a pinch, if you've deleted the file from the computer, you can re-import with HiMDRenderer.

Has anyone tried un-DRMing one of their own files, transferring to HiMD, then importing it onto another computer from the HiMD itself?

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Not a problem,

You know... I'm a bit surprised that nobody stumbled across this before now... Thanks Morlok!!!

The OMA files are simply copies of your imported mp3's or uploaded material from your HiMD. OMA is the Atrac3 format which SonicStage converts your file to in order to play on your HiMD. If you have the mp3's elsewhere, you can safely delete those oma files. You would just need to re-import the mp3's into sonicstage if you want to transfer them again. As far as your uploaded material. If you have saved them as wav files, theres no need to keep the oma's either. If you go into Options in SonicStage, and click on Transfer, there is an option under the "Advanced" properties for HiMD/NetMD transfer settings to "delete the converted files from the hard disk after transferring", this will prevent SonicStage from filling up your hard drive with all of those oma files. Be careful deleting the files from within SonicStage, if you check "delete the file from computer" it may delete your original mp3 as well. I would recommend removing them from your library without that option checked, and then going to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\SonicStage\Packages" and deleting the oma files from within the folders there if you are sure you don't need them. For your uploaded wav files, you could also try a lossless format like FLAC to compress them without losing quality.

Good call.

You can use the freeware audio editing program Audacity to convert the files, it also has plenty of other audio editing features. Converting to WAV with Audacity should be pretty straight-forward though, just open the OGG file and save as WAV. You can download it from the downloads section of these forums or from the website: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

All you need is something that will decode it to WAV and then import the WAV into SonicStage to transfer to HiMD.

Well this is pretty fantastic news! Now I can just archive the non-DRM'ed OMA files of everything I record and not have to convert them to WAV>FLAC first... That will save alot of space!! Thanks for the good news!!

There's a firmware upgrade for the RH10 models that are missing letters in the titling screen. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=11498 Not really a necessary firmware upgrade, I've gone without it so far. You can still use the missing letters, you just can't see them on the screen.

Here's the thread: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=11840

You could also try MarC's HiMD Renderer... I use it more often than the built-in wav converter. Plus it is the only way to convert digital/optically recorded material to WAV. See this thread: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=6087

Just to be clear (I just realized my question could be taken 2 different ways), I am wondering if the remote actually shows the input levels while in rec-pause... i.e. the strength of the signal coming from the mic... as it shows on the recorder itself.

Quick notes on Matt J's reply: 3) sonicstage, simpleburner... also the optical in. 4) you can only upload HiMD recordings that you've made on your HiMD recorder. In other words you won't be able to upload your old MD recordings. 5) you can use normal MD's in HiMD mode with any HiMD model. With 1st gen models you can record legacy (LP2/LP4) directly on the unit... 2nd gen models need sonicstage to record in legacy modes. The RH10 is a 2nd generation, so it lacks the legacy recording modes on the unit itself.

I could be wrong on this, but I had asked a similar question about the AA actually charging the rechargeable a while ago, and the responses and information I got at the time stated that the AA does indeed supply a current to the rechargeable battery. Also, the RH10 manual states that the USB will only supply a supplemental charge to the recorder, and therefore shouldn't be used as the only means of charging. And that it will not supply a full charge.

Unfortunately recording realtime via your PC soundcard is the only alternative with that particular model. Do do this, you would simply get a 1/8in stereo cable (same kind of jack that your headphones use to plug into the MD, only you need a cable that has that same jack on both ends), plug one end of the cable into your soundcards "line-in", and the other into the headphone jack of your MD recorder. Then press play on your MD, and use any audio editing software to record what your MD is playing. The advantages of having a HiMD recorder on the other hand are that the upload to PC is faster than realtime through USB, and it is a digital transfer, as opposed to a analogue transfer as you would be doing through the soundcard. Audacity is a great freeware audio editing program you can use for realtime analogue recording through your soundcard. I believe you can download this program from the download section of these forums.

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