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Last week a friend of mine brought his NetMD over and we tried it. I plugged it in, cued some songs in Winamp and hit record. Worked perfectly, so I'm starting to think my MD is messed up in some bizarre fashion.

Hey everyone. New to the boards and hate to start off my posting career with a question, but I'm at my wit's end. I bought my first (and currently only) MD player, a Sony MZ-R500 some three or four years ago. Up until now I've been recording through an analogue plug and it's getting to be something of a pain. My PC has a KT4 Ultra motherboard with an optical out, so I've been experimenting with digital recording. The trouble is, it doesn't work. Here's what I do: 1. Plug in the TOSlink cable from my PC's optical out to my Minidisc's optical in. 2. Go to the mixer, set speaker mode to two and enable SPDIF playback. 3. Start the sync recording on my MD. The LCD flashes DIGITL for a few times. 4. Start an audio program and play MP3s on Winamp, a CD on Media Player or something similiar. The trouble is, it doesn't work. No SIG just keeps flashing and nothing gets recorded. For a long time I thought my MZ-R500's optical in was broken but the small sync icon lights up so the MD recognises the plug. Also when I enable SPDIF playback on my PC the TOSlink cable lights up, so there's a signal coming through. I've tried both 44.1 and 48KHz playback but neither works. Can someone please help me?