Syrius

FLAC or WMA Lossless. More FLAC though. JetAudio, and HI-MD Renderer. Nero Wave Editor. Record. Upload. Hi-MD Renderer to Wav. Jet Audio to convert to FLAC. Archive on DVD-R.

Maybe the recording block on the unit is going bananas. And since it's a 600, there's no way to find out by making a recording through line in. >_<. What are your results with Simple Burner?

Now keep in mind that Oma files that have been uploaded from MD will have DRM. Only files you have imported from CDs or your own media files, AND converted to OMA, will be DRM-less after you uncheck the copy protection option when importing.

I want to know what kind of defense they can come up with in front of the judge. Seriously. This is like me installing a camera in my neighbor's bedroom on the pretense that my wife might cheat on me with him. That doesn't justify my invasion of his privacy and his wife's. If Sony wins and this crap is justified by the courts: People will distrust the corporations. Not buying their goods anymore, but a rise in pirated music. Remember the deal when the found out Tivo was watching you watch TV? If Sony loses: Companies will think twice before going to such shameful lengths to alienate their customers in the name of copyright. I work in customer service, and I know it's better to waive a few dollars in fees in order to keep a customer so he can still buy my product later, than lose him and his business for some money I could have recovered anyway. Also, artists will think twice or ask in their contracts such stupid schemes are not put. Do you think the Van Zants are happy about this after people stay away from their "tainted" CDs?

Let's not go that far from home. Remember how Mr. Playstation himself, Kutaragi, got demoted because he didn't know how to keep quiet. I hope Sony gets hit with the same sentence they'd ask for a hacker who did a similar job in their computers.

Saw a leaflet in 93, back when I was living in Mexico. (Yeah, back when Sony cared about latin america). Fell in love with the format, and decided I had to have one. Had the chance to first play with it in 1995, and was enthralled. Got my first unit in 2000, an R-37. Got sick of MD when NetMD (LP2 is crap and you know it. ) came, with all the stupid restrictions. Stuck to my Sharp SR60 until it started to die on me last year, got some players, and now Hi-MD. And I love the NH900. That's it.

You also have to wonder if current players can take advantage of it. Some machines won't see a 1 GB card when they can take up to 512. 16 GB.. sounds like overkill.

Maybe the little spike that detects the disc to be write protected or not has finally bit the dust. Did you drop your unit or something like that?

Again... HDD Failure=lose your tunes. And with all the DRM crap going on, you might be royally SOL. Unless you have to re-rip and transfer. (Ok. I-Tunes doesn't have checkout). Read block failure= Just slap MD into another unit and you're good to go. And I rather carry my usual five differently colored MD's every day, than having to look where the %$#@! are my tunes hidden inside of a player. My father used to call that being organized. Blasphemy.

Try plugging the Hi-MD to the PC. DON'T UPLOAD OR MAKE ANY CHANGES WHATSOEVER. Then see if it will play through SonicStage. If it does, you're halfway set.

CD audio is 16 Bit and 44Khz, and that's what's coming out of the player unless it pads it to 48, only to be de-padded to 44 again. The 24 bit thing is redundant. Leave it at 48/16. While the chip that Sharp uses is a 24-bit DSP, IIRC, the disc is still recording 16-bit words, sampled 44,100 times per second. It sounds better allright, but that's because the little guy packing the audio data (24-bit DSP) is doing a more efficient job at it.

Blasphemy.

Or if you can record, you won't be able to upload. Apple is smarter than just opening a can of worms and risk the anger of the companies that supply them with (crappy) music.

You can drag and drop a playlist into SS allright. It's not that hard.

Try Media Player Classic. Simpler, cleaner, and easier to use than Winamp, IMHO. It should play Oma files when SS is installed.

There IS a new bitrate. 352 Kbps. On SonicStage 3.3

And if that baby is compatible with ATRAC lossless, either playback only or recording AND uploading, I'll be first in line to buy it. Come on Sony. Time to atone for the rootkit fiasco. We know you're listening...

Heck yeah. And also the "cool" factor when you're not one of the white headphone drones. Hey, Head-Fi, listen to this: MINIDISC IS COOL! NYA!

I'm going to develop my own Operating System that will offer all of the windows advantages without none of the problems. And I'll sell it for only 1 dollar more then MS does with XP. By the way, has someone seen my Napoleon hat?

I like Sp 352, but somehow cant' add it to the options.

So we got SP, LP, LP 4, HI-SP and Hi-LP. The other bitrates are used for HDD walkmans. What names do you propose for the 352 bitrate, since we can use that for our Hi-MD? Vote for the ones you see here, or present your own idea, and I'll try and add them to the list. Get creative.

I do feel that with the new 352 bitrate, I might not use my old portables anymore, other than for nostalgia's sake.

As long as it sounds just as fine, I'm happy. I was really happy with HI-Sp, so this is more icing on the cake.

I think that the 352 is more of some serious technical Voodoo Sony is pulling off on all Hi-MDs, rather than an unlockable option. Otherwise we'd be able to play the 320 and 192 bitrates since the last release of SS.

What about a recorder that can encode to AAL on the fly, and then upload? Come on, Sony. We know you're listening.