Syrius

What's the OS? Have you got all the service packs? No viruses or spyware? Maybe the MDAC tool can help.

Sorry. Can't understand that last question. Mind asking it in another way? Try also asking in spanish, we might be able to help.

Sorry, if such a unit existed, we'd all have it by now. So in other words, no, there's nothing like that. I guess your only option is to try the MZ-1, the first MD unit ever made. That one had optical out that can be connected to a stand-alone CD burner.

A refurbed PS2 and an HDD and HDAdvance. *evil grin*

From your description, it sounds like a bad recording head. It won't finish the discs when you're done recording them. If the disc gets erased on its own after you have successfully played them many times before, it's bad medium.

It doesn't say where to buy them on the site. Or even how to order.

Really? My basic version can record to FLAC (it was my first experience with it) and WMA-L.

Argh, why do they come up with deals after I'm done with my shopping? ARGH!

At least now we can use standard MDs and Hi-MDs for music AND data. That's what Sony should have done from the start.

See my sig.

Hey, why not. MD's are safe, robust, and waaaaaaay cheaper than those Crap-pods.

If you got Nero wave editor and the plug-ins, you can also open and convert those Mp3 to WMA lossless instead of wav, which SonicStage also takes. Or try Jetaudio as well. It will convert from any format to any other, except to MP3.

There's a bug in the Hi-MD standard itself that some tracks will not upload when you edit them in the disc. Don't know exactly how it happens, but if you edit some files and then join them, or split, it will simply refuse to transfer them. Unless there is a physical defect on the surface of the disc, it should work just fine. Try with some test files first. (Let it record from the radio, then upload, and see what happens) The short version of the last resort method is this: Get Total Recorder (10 bucks) and install it. Launch it, connect your HI-MD. Launch Sonic Stage. Set TR to record, play the HI-MD through Sonicstage, so you can record real time on your computer. It's the only way to save files that won't upload but will play through SonicStage from the Hi-MD. There's a topic about upload guides on the forum, just can't remember where. Good luck.

I mean, look at what happens when people support a flawed format like WMA. (I haven't slept well, please cut me some slack.)

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119016,00.asp Well, duh. It's made by microsoft.

Back to topic, I get really pissed when people ask me if I'm in India when they call the center I work at. Listen, you old conservative close-minded folks (open minded conservative folks, please don't take offense), if you can't distinguish between hispanic and hindu accents (I don't sound like either of them, trust me), you better get out of your little happy "Us and them" world and spend sometime at your local mexican restaurant, and later to the Hindu restaurant. You got a problem with outsourcing? Then tell it so to the companies you do business with in written, or by not buying their products (Oh, but you just love Walmart prices, don't you?), and let your representatives know, and don't give them your vote until they do something about it. Improving my english ( I didn't know anything but the basic when I came to the US) and keeping my spanish in good shape is already hard enough for me, for some idiot asking every freaking time if I'm in India. Watch the Simpsons: Apu=Hindu. Dr. Nick Riviera and Bumblebee guy= Hispanic. Perhaps they'd prefer me do my heaby RRushian Ack-cent, Komrades? Or perhapsh, my Shean Connery scothishsh impreshion, hm? *pants heavily* Thanks. (Now, people from India, I don't have a problem with you. I work with them all the time from the India call center. My problem is with the people who have a problem with all the outsourcing there, and then try to make their problem, my problem. What a load of jerks.)

There's some misconception regarding the use of older versions of SS. Many people think that by going back to it, their problems will be fixed. Minus some exceptions, this is not the case. While SS has been buggy in the past, it's more likely a codec conflict, or DRM issue what's causing it. Reverting to a previous version of SS is the equivalent of hoping a broken car works by simply changing the license plates or the paint color. Don't mean to sound like a jerk, but please think about it. What can an older version of SS do that the newest can't?

They would have done so already. MD has had Optical input for a long time, and they protected it with SCMS. (Which was perfectly fair). Then came the DRM and "three checkouts only, b*tches" for SS. Sony has realized such restrictive methods hurt everyone more than they help, and therefore lifted their restrictions somewhat. They're not concerned with analog copies being uploaded, copied and distributed somehow. It's just the perfect bit-by-bit recordings and the fast copying and sharing what robs them of sleep at night. That's why you can't burn to CD the optical recordings made. Ironic, huh? We can record and upload analog sources with full CD quality and burn to our hearts' content (well, if it's our own recordings why the heck not?), while other people pay full price for reduced quality, drm-encoded cruddy WMA files. And AAC too. (128 KB is crap and you know it.) About the computer chip thingy, it's just easier and safer to cripple the CD so it outputs SCMS preventing you from copying the disc even via optical. Some discs have done so already, but in the practice it has had little effect. Forcing you to use a specific format or media player via a data session on the disc, or SCMS-ing discs in the name of copyright, due to the DCMA, is preventing you from your fair use rights, which are also stipulated in the DCMA. In other words, the companies who have done this crap (*COUGH, SONY ROOTKITS, COUGH COUGH!*) want to have their cake and eat it at the same time. To the RIAA: YOUR COPY-MY ASS- RIGHT ENDS WHERE MY FAIR USE RIGHTS BEGIN!

NO! Don't do any editing on the disc. There's a bug inherent to all Hi-Md that most likely will destroy your files. All your editing must be done on the computer AFTER you upload. First listen to the whole recording on the unit. If it's all ok, then you can use the last resort method for f-ed up uploads: Playback Real time through USB on SS + Total Recorder. There's a tutorial around the forums for it. Don't do any editing whatsoever on the disc, as this might reduce your chances to near zero recovery.

Sounds like the area on the disc where the recording was made is damaged. Can you play it normally through the minidisc and listen to it?

Hey, a future version of myself came to visit me. He/me says we'll be still talking about the demise of MD in 2012, but the format will be still alive after Sony sells their media division (and donated all the money to charity and the Coalition Against Rootkits In Your Computer), with the new 4 Terabyte Hyper-MiniDisc. Seriously, how long has it been since we all suspected MD was going to die? It sure reminds me of the man in the hospital who just won't croak.

Microsoft also says an Xbox 360 is the solution to all your problems and that you can't be happy without one. The only use I have for WMA is when I convert from FLAC to WMA lossless in order to import and transfer to HI-MD.

Let's see if this covers your concerns: You can import (rip) files from CD's and I think from WMA, WAV or MP3 to any flavor of Atrac. You can select NOT to add DRM crap to those files, so you can back them up, upload them, trade them and email them to anyone you want, pretty much. You can upload unlimited times, and then convert and save to WAV, any analog recorded track. The uploaded ATRAC files get locked to that installation (no trading, no backing up, but who cares when you can save to WAV?), but you can upload from the original disc as many times as you want, to as many computers as you want. Got optically-recorded tracks to upload and convert? HiMD Renderer. Yes, music transferred TO THE UNIT via USB cannot be uploaded to another computer FROM THE UNIT, though they can be played from the Hi-MD. *cough, TotalRecorder, cough*

If you have the original CD's it's just a matter of using Simple Burner to transfer. No ripping, no hassle. My recommendation is for the NH900. No Mp3 playback, but great sound and very reliable.

Would you believe me if I told you I dreamed of putting a music CD in my computer, then remembering about the XCP crap, and not being able to find the Shift key to disable auto run?