jadeclaw

1.) Battery Box. A MD-recorder puts out between 1 and 3 Volt on the Microphone socket. Under normal circumstances, this is mostly enough. But on loud concerts, the preamplifier inside the mic capsule overloads. A battery box usually delivers 9 Volts, resulting in a much higher headroom for the capsule amp, thus allowing a much higher level. As I have no experience regarding soundboard connections, I defer that question to those with the knowledge about that.

Objection your Honor! SonicStage is crap - That is true. But Hi-MD is great!

What do we learn? Backup! Backup! Backup!... Another Idea: Don't rip into SonicStage, rip into MP3 instead(CBR 320kBit). And use Sonicstage only for transferring onto Minidisc. For listening on the comp, I use Winamp 5.

Find someone with a SP-only homedeck... Or find someone with a Hi-MD recorder (NH700 and above). Maybe an electronics-shop, where you know one of the sales people, so you can use their demonstration unit to clear the discs...

The S1 cannot be used as a data drive. No NetMD recorder is useable as a datadrive AND no MD recorder can play MP3 natively. If you want data storage, use a Hi-MD recorder. You can store any file on Hi-MD but to actually listen ON the MD to the music on the disc, you have to use SonicStage to transfer first. And SonicStage of course converts into Atrac.

Problem is, since the battery died during writing the TOC, the TOC has been trashed. That simply means, that the information, which sector of the disc belongs to which frame and time of the recording is lost. Even start and end of the big .hma file is unknown. Therefore I conclude, that Sony is correct in the assumption, that the contents of the disc are unrecoverable. To use the disc again, Menu --> Edit --> Format --> confirm with [ |> ENT]. Oh, and the 2 standard MD-tracks you see have a reason. The beep ensures, that you don't think, your recorder is dead, the second track simulates a full disk, so that most standard recorders refuse to record, preventing the disc from being accidentially overwritten. However, that one might be useless with recorders from the 'End Search'-button era...

See your other thread.

Nope. No solution. Unusual, it is... Since this is the first time, I heard about that, I can only guess for the reason. However, it is known, that certain virii and worms trash disks of any kind like this. Remember, Hi-MD is a USB-datadrive as well. I would suggest to do a virus scan and in addition to plug in the recorder AFTER SonicStage has been fully loaded AND to eject the disc before the recorder is unplugged or SonicStage is exited. SonicStage blocks any file system access to the recorder while it is running. Recovering the contents? Highly unlikely, I say with the current knowledge, impossible. Might change in the future, when more is known about the internals of the recorders and .hma formats.

Pethunia, try this: Backup the library on the laptop. copy the backup onto a removable media. Go to your second computer. Restore that backup onto the second computer. That should work. One problem, Tracks already in the library on the second comp are lost. It is not possible to 'merge' libraries. And you cannot do an incremental backup, you have always to transport the whole thing. So make sure, you use only 1 computer for upload and always the same computer. Or - free the music using marcnet's HiMDRenderer and use something different to keep your music together. Speaking about updating SS: Always run Backup before attempting any Software update. Finally about the trashed uploads: Until now, I haven't lost a single track from the library. The trashing of files happens during the upload process itself. That means, if a file has been stored in the library itself, it seems to be safe. Nevertheless, it is good practice to run the Backup-tool regularly after bigger uploads and editing sessions. But backing up our data is something, we should do anyway...

Edit on the PC. With mp3DirectCut. Here: http://www.mpesch3.de/

Well, should he used this one: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: Found here: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16247

1. Hi-SP is very close to CD, I say 98% of all people won't hear a difference to CD. Linear PCM is a different class. As it is completely uncompressed with 16 bits at a sample rate of 44.1kHz, the sound is identical to CD, as CDs use the same format. Standard DAT uses the same format as well, however, a professional DAT-recorder will sound better, at US$1600+, you can expect better components. 2. Yes you will get true stereo in Hi-SP and PCM. Even 60's style ping-pong stereo is no problem. Frequency response is no problem either, it is less than +-1 dB throughout the whole range (20 - 20000 Hz). 3. I say, the NH900 seems to me the best choice, as you can add a second battery in parallel for longer running time. Battery case for that is included.

1. Yes and no. Yes, it can upload Hi-MD music, if it has been recorded on another Hi-MD recorder through LineIn/Optical/Microphone. No, it cannot upload music that has been previously downloaded via SonicStage onto a disc. 2. No. You have to go via headphone out to LineIn of the Soundcard.

Hmm, it seems, that the recordings are unrecoverable. Your R900 seems to have an issue here. If the R900 plays recordings done on other decks, then there might be an issue with the recording head. The little white thing in the lid exactly over the lens. Check it for accumulated dust and dirt. If the R900 records up to a certain time point and then the recording ends abruptly, the wires to the recording head are possibly broken. Can be fixed by an experienced technician. If no dirt is on the head, it can be the wires as well. If the R900 doesn't play anything, it is the laser... These types of hardware problems cannot be fixed with TOC-cloning as the sounddata never has been written in the first place. When you give the recorder into service, get an estimate first, you might want to buy one of the new Hi-MD recorders instead, if repairing the old one is too expensive. Since you need Microphone in, avoid the NH600, NH700 and up can be used.

MZ-NH1 had the problem, that the .wav-files produced by Audacity aren't accepted by Nero Buning Rom. Since others might run into the same problem, a solution is here: ""There is a simple solution to your problem, you have to export the Wave-file as 16-bit .wav Audacity saves audio data as 32 bit floating point format to prevent noise and artefacts from creeping in, when a file goes through multiple filters and effects. Ok, what to do? Start Audacity. Select: File --> Preferences... A window opens. Click on the File Format tab. In the "Uncompressed Export Format" part, select "WAV (Microsoft 16 bit PCM). Click on "OK". Now load the recorded Wave file. Click on "File" --> "Export as Wav..." Enter the Filename and click on "Save". And THAT file is now in the standard format, that is accepted by Nero. You will also notice, that the new file is half the size compared to the original one. That Audacity refuses to overwrite an existing file is correct, you have to give the exported file a new name. This prevents you from accidentially overwriting hours of work. Remember, regular save means 32 bit - unusable for CD-Audio, but highest quality for future editing. Export as WAV means 16 bit - The right one for CD-Audio. Now MP3: The MP3 encoder is found here: http://mitiok.free.fr/ Download the stable version, 3.96.1 currently. Unpack the downloaded Zip-file into a directory, e.g. C:Lame Now start Audacity, "File" --> "Preferences..." again, click on the "File Format" tab, in the "MP3 Export Setup" part, click on "Find Library". In the following File dialog, select the directory, where you have unpacked the Lame zip file into and select a file named "lame_enc.dll". Confirm with a click on "Open". After that, select the "Bit Rate" in the Preferences, 256 or 320 is for a good quality, finally click on "Ok" to finish. With "File" --> "Export as MP3...", you can save your recordings as MP3. "" Hope this helps.

Check your E-Mail. In that one, I presented the solution. If anyone else has the same probs, look here: http://forums.minidisc.org/viewtopic.php?p=31690#31690

Check your PM.

Exactly. You can use Total recorder, but since it is analog anyway, you can use this free program: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Or check, what has been included with your soundcard. Just connect headphone out of the MD to LineIn of the soundcard and start recording. Remember to select 'Audio Out' from the 'Useful'-submenu. That way, all sound effects are turned off. You can select that only directly on the recorder. Check page 51 of the manual.

Sony and Software - A never ending story... Good to hear, it works again.

NetMD recordings cannot be uploaded. Regardless of the recorder. But since LP4 is already close to AM-radio, I see no problem of going the old route through the soundcard...

ROTFLMAO!!! What's next? MD with water cooling?

Unplug player. Close SonicStage and restart Windows. Take the battery out of the player and leave it out for a minute. Reinsert battery. When Windows is up again, start SonicStage, when it is fully loaded, plug in the player. If the discs are conventional discs, initialize them in NetMD mode, that way everything is deleted, then initialize again in Hi-MD mode. That should usually solve the problem. Point is, when SonicStage or Windows crashes, the firmware of the player crashes as well. Taking out the battery solves that.

The Software is identical for all Networked players from Sony, regardless of the media used in the player. So, when you replace your Hi-MD-player with a different one, everything keeps working. -------------------------------------------------------- Hmm, Sony dropping Copyprotection for CDs? So they finally accepted, that copyprotection in fact is a playback prevention and the worst idea since the invention of the Ford Pinto. In addition, there are lawsuits in France against the music industry over copy protection. The tone in these lawsuits even suggest that consumers are defrauded by the music industry and that protected CDs are in fact defective products. Another point, according to german law, protected CDs must be visibly marked - resulting in a drop of sales and a sharp drop in the number of shoplifting cases. When even thieves avoid your products, then you know, something is wrong...

Technically, it should be no problem to serve more than one MD at the same time, as every device on the USB gets its own address. In addition, every USB-capable OS is able to return addresses and IDs of the connected USB devices, so identifying a particular device is no problem. SonicStage of course, can handle only one recorder at a time. Speaking of ATI, there is a difference between these two cards, the 9500 gets the chips that didn't pass the quality limits for the 9700. That way, they don't have throw away those chips with a few defective rendering pipelines. That simply means, that you can end up with display problems after the upgrade.

Actually, not that much. The equivalent of a pentium 90. And definitely less than what is needed to handle GSM-reception and decoding. And you know, how long these run on one charge. The secret? Use a DSP. Its specialised command set and architecture improves efficiency by a factor of ten compared to a general purpose CPU. And now guess, what is inside of an Atrac chip? A DSP of course. However, the program in the old chips wasn't upgradable, but I have the strong feeling, that the software on the new recorders IS upgradeable. Just compare the manuals on all recorders from the NH600 to the NH900. Everything looks so - Identical... Especially the the NH700 and the NHF800. Everything looks identical. Even down to the remote connector. Yet the built in DSP-software is different - the NHF800 has Virtual Surround. We need to see the Service manuals... :smile: Definitely. And it should be separate from the signal processing to prevent dropouts, when pressing a button. I will definitely investigate further as I need something less anal than SonicStage.