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kiseki also means cornerstone.

What you don't know is that it's already in english. It's not the case with HiMD however. Sonicstage will be in Japanese. You can download it off the net somewhere, I believe there's a link on this site.

I thought Sony is working on a program to export .omgs recorded from an analogue line to .wav format.

No. No power to that Apple, harhar. (buy an iPod)

Here's something I have to say about the iPod. Battery life is shorter than i'm used to. Froze twice. Here's something else I have to say about the iPod: It sounds fantastic. The bassless comments come from the iPod earbuds. By the way, those earbuds gave me a swollen ear for a week. I don't believe it. I'm never letting them get anywhere near my ears again. It syncs most everything. Like the clock. My ipod is synced to an atomic clock through my PC. You can use it as a phonebook for your friends, and you can use it as a cheat book for your calculus exam. Interface is seamless. It's like a physical iTunes. It does most everything computer based better than MD. The only problem you'll have is with copy protected CDs. Lately they seem to have been putting the SCMS bit to "copy" so your MD can't copy that digitally though. However you can get an SCMS stripper and send it through to your PC. Then iTunes can deal to it. That's all.

Impossible. You can capture it as a wave form but i'm not sure how to do that. It'll be in real time anyway. Hi MD really does suck. You can upload your recordings and burn them onto an ATRAC3 CD.. Yay. What a pity. I'd return it and invest in a good MD deck such as a JB940. Recording digitally from the deck's optical output to the soundcards optical input (assuming you have a card with one of those) would be quicker and less inconvenient.

Just like the **** only less convenient and less apple. Maybe there's a merit in having discs, rather than hard disks. Sure your friends can have a copy, if they own a HiMD player. What a way to make a product popular - FORCE it on the consumer! Speaking of HiMD players, I think the EH1 came with Sonicstage and everyone was confused? It's probably for uploading. Duh. I'm stupid.

Yeah, but you couldn't play it back due to OpenMG's DRM.

You won't be able to upload the music on your HiMDs to your computer in Australia, as far as I know. Or at least if you can upload you can't play it.

I've heard of corrupted minidiscs. I have several. Skipping through "silverf**k" by the Pumpkins, and one a while ago, on an X disc. Had to chuck both, they were dead. My E900 also skipped to death. Heh.

In other news, the iPod mini is now available in Australia for AU$399, and in NZ for NZ$489. 4GB and only a little smaller/lighter than the regular iPod? Get stuffed. But you know it's going to be popular. I bet they're sold out already and it's only been available about 12 hours.

Where's the remote? Unlike MD players, you don't need a remote to use the unit in all it's splendor. You don't have to mess around with these remotes which break after less than 6 months. Where's the mic? Tell me, somebody tell me, please tell me... where's the mic in on an R500? Who needs a line in when you can record at 11MB/s from a computer. It's fairly obvious to everyone but the stupid (you) that we chose iPods knowing we weren't going to do any recording. Here's the criteria, chump: -Easy to transfer tunes to and from device. -No restrictions (Notice, this rules out Hi-MD) -Small (I owned an E10 and played with it next to an iPod, the difference really is scant unless you're pedantic) -Enough battery life for a day or two of light listening -Warranty that's valid in this country Sorry for being inflammatory, but I didn't think it really needed to be beaten home as much as it did.

Hi. No, that's impossible. I think you can use the buttons on the unit and it might shut up. I can't remember, it's been so long since I used that (it died a week after I bought it brand new).

Did you mean "Blade mp3 quality is horrible compared to ATRAC"? LAME sure sounds good. ATRAC sounds good too. Certainly not a huge leap above it that you're making it out to be.

Maybe they decided that having weak, weaker, and weakest outputs was a good selling point.

I think (from my DR7 manual, I don't have the DR7 or it's manual anymore, memory..) that Er MD means "optical block error" in which case I wouldn't trust that MD. Keep the E35 hiding around lest your SR60 give more Er MDs.

Yeah, I wasn't talking about battery life. I don't hate the HD1, just it's lack of mp3 support. Actually, I hate proprietry formats in general, including AAC, so I keep a .wav copy on my disc as well. GBs are cheap these days. I like the HD1 because of the battery life, design and size. I dislike just that mp3 support thing and the remote (It's pretty much guaranteed to break). I was assuming this was a non-NetMD recorder being spoken about, in which case PC titling is irrelevant. They don't allow chinese characters anyway. I think this one does although probably only the Japanese version. Sonic Stage has to be hacked to allow it, and I couldn't even do that. Just a bunch of silly ????s. If I filled up the HD1 with a bunch of 256K ATRAC files then it wouldn't have it's 13000 songs on it. Heh. Not that i'll get 3750 with my ipod. 800 or so and around 6GB. But organising itunes so that only the songs I want to listen to are on the pod is much easier than doing the same with sonic stage. Tales of my disgruntled past? Absolutely. E10, R37, R900, E900. (not all mine, just my friends ones do the same damn thing. For US$65, I claim "what a piece of ...."). It's not the only thing i'm suspicious of either.

You've never had an optical block die, have you? It costs more than US$100 (probably closer to US$200) to fix. Gotta add shipping to that too. Most people's record collection if on their computer is in mp3 format. To those that care about audio quality, transcoding removes some of that. Sonicstage is terribly resource intensive. You're stuck with it. You don't have to use iTunes with an iPod. You could use ephpod for example. That copy protected CD may have taken a while, but at least you don't have to spend your time titling it with (if Sony) a remote that's going to last less than half a year of titling before it starts peforming random errors such as pausing when you pressed play, and skipping two tracks instead of one like you asked it to. How does the ATRAC3+ format have a larger capacity for music? 48Kbit is a shade less than pathetic sounding. You could fill a 20GB ipod up with bad sounding AACs and have the same capacity. S'pose it doesn't matter to the deaf, in which case the HD1 will probably do quite well.

Man that skytherx guy is generous. He sent me his other iPod. I'll review it when it arrives. In regards to a satisfying experience right from opening the box, I don't regard a reminder in 3 languages to not steal music particularly satisfying. I'm going to put all my stolen tunes on it first.