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Correct on all counts, yes. Welcome to the board.

Ah, goodgood. Many happy uploads to you.

hahaha.. concert A is good at the diplomacy, sure.

MO writes information by using modulated magnetic fields and constant laser power. The MO layer of the disc records fluctuations in the magnetic field from the record head as darker and lighter patches, which resemble pits and lands to the optical read mech. 4.7GB according to documents found in http://www.minidisc.org 's Research section. Don't recall what optical wavelength [what colour laser] this used, though.

Electromagnet = modulated field, usually @60Hz. It the strength and rate of change that cause the damage. Fixed fields should not do much unless they're moving pretty fast. Thanks for the correction re: heat.

Neither MD nor HiMD should be susceptible to magnetic fields without there being heat [i.e. the laser, much higher temp than ambient ever is] applied to them.

I own a pair of these. They're pretty awful, pretty much exactly as aeriyn described. The EQ curve to make them sound even remotely flat is quite harsh. The earplug bits are also horrid. Like those "EAR" bland earplugs that you squeeze and fit in your ear, and they expand. The little cans the drivers are in are highly susceptible to microphonics from the cables. If you walk while wearing these, the cables jiggle comes through as painfully loud booming sounds. You can do better that these.

Hi-MD supports uploading. No other MD variant does. Try browsing ni the Hi-MD "essential info and FAQs" forum for more information. You will not be able to upload from your existing MD / MDLP format discs, regardless of what player you get. You can transfer MD / MDLP discs via analogue or digitally using the optical out on home MD decks that have them.

Gore Vidal on Bush's Inaugural Address: "The Most Un-American Speech I've Ever Heard" I disagree with the title, though. And Vidal might agree with this - that perhaps it should have been "The Most American Speech I've Ever Heard".

I was talking about the input. These cards apparently average about $20USD, have 24 bit RECORDING with good response and snr, &c. In any case - why are you bothering to go through all that? Why not just run the line straight from your MD to the line in of your sound card? There's no reason why you should be having to pad and then amp the signal again. All you're doing is adding noise and distortion to it by going through your preamp. It might seem inconvenient, but a direct connection is always the best way to go.

It seems wacky to me as well, but yes, that's how it works - delete the tracks on the HiMD using SS and from that point on SS allows the use of its editing functions on those tracks in the library. My thinking is that they impose the deletion policy to prevent this. * Once the tracks on the HiMD are marked as uploaded, they can't be uploaded again * Likewise, in order to edit them in SS you have to delete them from their source; this prevents fooling SS into allowing multiple uploads by editing on the HiMD itself Um. Huh? If you're recording via audacity, you don't have to worry about the upload restrictions at all, for one thing. For another, if you edit the tracks on the HiMUD and then upload to Audacity - the only difference it will make is where the gaps take place. I suppose this might be useful for noting where the trackmarks are supposed to be, but why bother spending all the time editing on the HiMD at all? Why not just copy all the material from the disc to Audacity, then use Audacity to split the recording into tracks? Perhaps I'm not understanding what you're trying to say - it just seems like an unnecessary bunch of steps from here. I'm a bit mystified as to why the slowdown happened. While you're in Audacity, verify the following: * sampling rate is set to 44,100Hz for recording [and when saving files] * bit depth is 16-bit The only reason I can think of for the slowdown would be if you had been recording at 48kHz and, for whatever reason, the rate got mixed up when saving the file or something.

Right. Instead, the US has around a known 10% of its population well below the poverty line, and imposes itself on every other country.

A bit late, but - nice: tanned hide plum it creamcycle rose interesting but not really sure about: the perl creamcycle rose would be my favourite there, I think. I find any colour scheme based on blues/whites to be pretty much anaethema to my eyes. I'm just sick of blue blue blue on everything. Give me nice indigos and purples any day.

HiMDRenderer would not be useful on a Mac, since it still depends on having the tracks uploaded and stored in SonicStage. Import the WAV files into SonicStage after havnig edited and split them as you wish, then put them on another disc. Or - import the WAV files into SS and use its split/combine features, then put them on another disc. To my knowledge, you can't. You can only put the edited copies that you have as WAV files onto another disc.

The player reports 963.9MB, or Windows reports 963.9MB?

There are no such models yet, but the new model line will be introduced before too long. You never know what the new models might have.

Take a glance in the "Essential Hi-MD information/FAQs" forum [subforum to the Hi-MD one]. Especially the document about uploading. While a lot of it may be meaningless since you're not using the stuff yet, it does describe what it takes to get things done. Actually, read as much in there as you can before receiving your unit. The better you inform yourself beforehand, the easier it is to avoid some of the common pitfalls.

The education system here is almost the same as in the US. The main difference here is that students learn more world history, whereas in the US students learn mostly US history to the exclusion of anything about anywvhere else. [Yes, I'm exaggerating, but history and geography are things that Americans are, generally, much weaker in than the people of almost all other "1st-world" countries.] As for the media in Canada - 90% of our television comes directly from the US. Our own media are not much better than their US counterparts, but likewise they tend to be less alarmist, more truthful, more balanced in perspective, less controlled by and far more critical of their own government [especially our public broadcaster, the CBC], &c. &c. American news tends to look like you're watching a bad movie most of the time. Canadian, as with most British, news looks more like you're watching, well, news. The experience of living only 60 miles from the border of the world's most powerful [and most deluded] nation has a huge influence on one's worldview. As with pretty much everyone in Canada, I grew up watching 90% American TV, reading 75% American magazines, watching pretty much 100% American films, &c. It's hard not to be influenced by something so pervasive, but at the same time, we Canadians do have our national pride as well. We're just a lot less gun-toting, flag worshipping, neighbour-murdering, litigating, &c. than Americans. Many Canadians basically resent almost everything about the US. Most Americans would put it down to jealousy, but I think the truth is that, as with the educated people of basically the whole world outside the US, we look at you and think, "What a waste." I honestly don't know. I do know that much of my worldview comes from being Canadian and having grown up in a culture that is totally screwed up in totally different ways from most of the US [as well as in the same ways]. I went to French immersion as a child, for instance, and learned a completely different version of Canadian history than everyone else who attended English schools. [Later on the curricula were updated everywhere.. what I learned in grade 7 history was being taught to grade 11 when I was high school, from the same book only in English.] Now you make me feel bad! There I was being all scathing and angry about something I usually avoid talking about [because I always end up scathing and angry] and respond with.. well.. you respond with hope, really. The first thing I'd suggest is to forget about worshipping your bloody flag. The second thing would be to seek out the perspective that you don't get to experience yourself or hear about in the US media - i.e. the news from the other sides. US media outlets are, IMO, among the least trustworthy sources of information [on certain topics] on the planet. If you want to know about stock prices, sure. If you want to know about local news, of course. But if you want world events, politics, global economics, even coverage of your country's own crusade of oppression and deception, er, I mean fight for freedom in Iraq - I'd look to any media outlet other than those in the US. Foreign media are a wealth of information that you will never see on the local news, CNN, Foxnews, or anywhere else on US television. Things like last year when at the World Cup Soccer tourney people of every colour booed the US team [in the thousands], burned US flags in the streets, and cheered for Germany for the first time in something like 50 years. Personal irony: I attending broadcast school [for TV] years ago. There I was, studying TV journalism and production. And that was when I stopped watching so much TV. In the past few years I've reduced my TV watching to almost zero. I no longer read newspapers with any regularity, I no longer listen to the radio unless someone else has one on within earshot.. I basically live in a "common" media blackout. I do read internet news a few times a week. Indymedia, CBC.ca, BBC, ABC [Australia], NHK [Japan], and others. Not with much regularity, but enough for my tastes. The funny part about this is that, while I'm largely ignorant [completely by choice] of current events a lot of the time, I still find myself to be better-informed than most of the people I'd run into on the street. The people who watch the news, read the papers, and listen to the radio. I just don't know how that works. Lastly - remember that this is the perspective of just one man, and take it as such.

This would be because netMD does not do uploading. SS permits the old-style "checking in" which the removes the track from your MD, which is what happened to you. In other words, you didn't lose your tracks because SS trashed them. You just accidentally threw them away.

I remember my musician friends talking about the fact that a certain company's guitars could be bought in either "US made" or "Mexican made" versions. The Mexican ones were much less expensive, and were made with [some] inferiour parts. Imagine their surprise when I pointed out to them that the company those mexicans are working for chooses to have things this way. That they, rather than sending the same parts their US factories use, send the Mexican factories cheap crap to work with. Is this Mexico's fault? No. Is this the fault of the Mexican people? No. Is this the fault of the skilled Mexican workers assembling those guitars? No. Is it the fault of the American company they're working for? Sort of, yes. They choose to send them cheap crap, so their work ends up being seen as cheap crap, when in reality they might be more skilled than their US counterparts. The real fault lies somewhere between the econimic system that detemines that a majority of people won't be able to afford a product made by someone in the US [or whichever country], and offers the option of buying the cheap crap version made in what the US considers, for all intents and purposes, a lesser country of lesser people. By extension, include with the US there every so-called "1st-world" country, including mine, Canada. China [nor any other nation] are not responsible for your burger-flipping society. Your society is. If you want to change that, stop supporting the 2% of your populace that have most of the money, and start supporting everyone else. Which is next to impossible to do, of course. That 2% control almost everything. Between your government [who are basically fascists] and your corporations [who, for the most part, are outright fascists] they control basically everything in your country, and much of the rest of the world as well. So, rather than rolling over every time you see a McD's advertisement and buying a Big Mac, support your local businesses. Rather than taking in advertising, turn off your f*ing television and educate yourselves. People go to McD's [as an example] because they're practically trained from birth to do so. Untrain yourselves. Think globally, act locally. [As opposed to the usual American Way of thinking locally and trying to act globally] Yep. And can you give me, or anyone for that matter, a good reason why the jobs being created in those countries, why the people those jobs will permit to afford to put a roof over their heads and food in their children's mouths, don't deserve those jobs? There's a huge paradox here: people want the products they buy to be inexpensive. They also want those products to be made by themselves and their neighbours, at a fair rate of pay that reflects regional costs of living. The two are pretty much mutually exclusive, though. The result is that manufacturing gets shipped elsewhere so you can enjoy your low prices. The same prices at which the people manufacturing the products themselves will often never be able to afford to purchase, because your desire for low prices puts the factory in their backyard where your corporation can pay $0.25/hr to people who are simply happy to be able to have work and afford to live in dirt-floor shacks while their family eats a diet consisting mainly of rice. This while they're probably thinking of you middle-class Americans who can afford afford to drive their $20,000+ car [filled with petrol they could never afford and with insurance on it that they can't even conceive of] to a franchised restaurant's drive-through window to buy a meal made of cattle raised on raped land for their family - a meal that costs as much as they make in a month. [i know the pronouns got screwed up there, but I'm actually laughing after reading it. What great run-ons.] Thank you for proving my points so gracefully. Concessions are a requirement of living in the world we live in. In a later reply you actually say something about how a global free-market economy is about reciprocity, which it is. The rest of what you're saying doesn't match this, though. What you're talking about is the typical American attitude of "let's keep it all for ourselves - screw those dirty poor people in country X." The real question here: would you really even accept that job, working on a crappy assembly line somewhere? While I don't condone this kind of action, it's important to keep in mind the fact that the company producing those products you so desperately "need" [such as 65 different and completely redundant brands of toothpaste and tampons, let alone electronics] have to face the fact that doing things inside the US border means having to pay US-scale wages, and to follow US inflation rates. That's not to mention work safety regulations, building codes, property taxes, and all the things that make running a big business so expensive. Mind you, the really big businesses are usually buddy-buddy with people in government, have lobbyists shouting specious arguments in favour of their not paying taxes, and end up getting away with economic murder because their country needs them and what they make so desperately. The corporations exist on the backs of their workers, raking in billions while often [if not usually] contributing next to nothing to the system that supports them. Point one: if the US would quit screwing over and screwing with the rest of the world, your inflation wouldn't be so bad. Point two: when they raise the prices on their products because their workers all expect raises that follow the local cost of living, you and your family and your friends start whinging and threaten to stop buying their products. Often enough, they move offshore just so they can stay in business, so you will still buy their products. You can't have it both ways, but you really love having those cheap prices. At least, you love having them as long as you don't have to hear about factories in Arkansas being closed, or the plight of workers in whatever country the factory got exported to in order to exploit them. If you really want to stop the cycle, it's pretty simple: STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS AND LET THEM GO UNDER. There are no simple answers to any of this. On one hand, we all want ourselves and our neighbours to be able to live comfortably. On the other hand, we want inexpensive products [which are, for the most part, completely unnecessary crap]. On another hand, when we really think about it, it's totally unacceptable to take advantage of anyone and exploit them simply because they're less rich than we are. Or at least, I like to think that most of us would think so. I don't think anyone in the US administration or working in the higher levels of the majority of US corporations does. On one hand I'm totally stunned by this thread. On the other hand, considering that the majority of users here are American, I'm not surprised in the least by the clear demonstration of total ignorance, nationalism, and lack of concern for the rest of the world exemplified by the majority of the replies to Aeriyn's original post. I'll point out in postscript, though, for those of you who have had the attention span to read this far: I am just as guilty of perpetuating most of what is bad about the system I'm talking about as the majority of others here are. I shop at a "box store", buy the cheapest products possible, &c. While I am playing devil's advocate in a huge way, don't think for a second that I'm saying I'm innocent. In fact, it's just the opposite. Whereas most people are not innocent but choose to be ignorant, I am slightly more informed. I am aware of some of [but by no means all of] the damage I am both causing and perpetuating, whereas the majority of people choose to not know anything about it while likewise complaining about it as if the whole deal weren't their problem in the first place. The thing is - it is their problem. It is our problem. Yeah, yeah. Spot the hippy. Let the broiling begin.

I have avoided replying to this until now, and am doing so -before- reading what the rest of the posters have to say. Yes, this makes you a bigot of sorts. Note that I didn't say "I think this makes you.." China are not the enemies of the US. Or, to clarify that, the people of China [the ones who primarily benefit from the jobs created there] are not enemies of the US. The truth has many faces. * manufacturing within the US costs a lot more money * manufacturing done in the US does not imply higher quality. It just appeals to bigots who like to think that "made in America" means something other than "it costs more and people here have jobs." I, personally, don't really care where something is made - I check the build quality myself if possible, and base a decision on that. US products are usually at the bottom of my list, mainly because I seek to not support the US economy. * products made elsewhere usually end up being less expensive to American consumers who have the money to buy them [most people in China don't have the money, and it's not because they're Maoist or socialist or communist - it's because they're poor] * the reality of a global economy means spreading all services everywhere. If you maintain only certain sectors in certain areas, such as having people in China make your $150 shoes, it encourages regional economic monocultures. In addition, for those of you who are still stupid enough to think that communism is the root of all evil: * moving manufacturing to China means these people learn new high-tech skills, which means they become more educated * as they become more educated, they'll realise what they're missing living in the restrictive [not evil] society they're living in * people who realise what they're missing want more [bush would fit the word "freedom" here about 650-bazillion times] * people who want more eventually get fed up with repression and rise in revolution So, really, my opinion on things is that, if anything, moving manufacturing to China is a good thing for the entire world. Yes, there's a huge trade imbalance between China and the rest of the world [they export lots and import little, borrow lots of money and lend little], but overall the benefit for the whole planet is that the Chinese people, by becoming more educated, will eventually rise against their own repressive government and CHANGE things. I find Aeriyn's attitude to be very typical of Americans, who basically think that the US is the lord of the planet and that everyone else should just comply with their wishes. Such is not the case. If anything, the US has become the bane of this entire planet, specifically because of people with attitudes like this one. Americans tend to think that everyone else on earth loves them. Between their own stunningly complete ignorance and the influence of their propagandist media [which waves the flags of free speech, truth, and justice, &c. but in reality rivals the old Soviet system for the shiny happy lies it perpetuates] the American people tend to be completely [blissfully] unaware of the fact that a fair majority of the rest of the world in fact despises them [and, especially, their administration]. What it comes down to, Aeriyn, is that your attitude is both provincial and nationalistic, and while I'm definitely not an expert on politics, your ignorance is emblazoned on your sleeve for all to see. Thing is, I don't hate you for it. I'm harshly critical of you for it, but I don't hate you for it. If you're really interested in raising the standard of living in the US [which is why most people in any region fear the export of manufacturing and such, because of lost jobs], you might consider some of the following: * not treating your poor like they live far away in some "3rd world" country rather than on your streets, and * taking care of your populace rather than ignoring them if they don't have the cash to line your pockets * harshly regulating privatised health care [basic health care at the least should *never* be a "for profit" industry as it is in the US, keeping essential services out of the reach of millions] * eliminating religious fundamentalism and zealotry from your government [which pleads "separation of church and state" and then turns around and does things like telling women they can't do what they wish with their bodies based on religious "ideals" that neither reflect these nor any times] * demilitarising [not completely of course] your society / putting down your guns * ceasing your incessant attempts to run the rest of the world as if it was yours * throwing your government out of power Just a few suggestions. You said that China are [basically] enemies of the US. Try on a different prespective: The US is the enemy of the planet and all its people. Including Americans.

You can only ensure gapless playback from sources ripped directly from CD with either SonicStage or Simple Burner.

I'd recommend the NH700 if you're on a budget. If you live in the US, the NHF800 is the nearest model. If you want something that permits uploading [transferring tracks digitally to your computer], keep in mind that no netMDs allow this. Only HiMD does. You might want to wait a month or two to see what this year's model line offers, as well.

Not to be egotistical, but that was actually -my- guide to HiMD uploading, as posted by kurisu. You're the second person to report lost uploads with SS 2.3, btw.

iRiver hdps are well-known for their problems with sustained recording, such as glitches and gapping in the audio. This is not a defect caused by the fact that they are hd-based; it's just because the players themselves are not designed specifically for recording. iRiver themselves note to their customers that the recording functions are basically experimental and not intended for any kind of serious use.