hobgoblin

for that you hyave to petition the EU and tell them to evict the french law that put it in there in the first place. it just goes to show that to make europe a single market one basicly have to tell the big 5 to get lost...

this in combo with the new m series of minidisc equipment i fear that the future of walkman brand equipment will be hd3 revisions and those cute oled flash players... minidisc is going to way of the pro digital recorder completly, no more trying to be a mp3 player for that system...

so they are unlimited capasity (by the change of a disc) digital recorders, cute... why do i have a feel that the minidisc will go professional audio recording only in the future while the walkman brand will show up on flash, hdd and some phone players?

no wonder i could not find comments i had just made. could it be that his account was cracked or something?

hmm, im starting to wonder how the player will react if it found mp3 data inside a entry thats supposed to be a recording

must say that i never understood where this stuff came from. but then i had never heard of it before i started to visit this place so...

hmm, so maybe they do a checksum of the trkidx every time they write or upload and then store that checksum somewhere? but where...

now if iriver could come out with a replaceable microdrive or something i would be interested... thats the major feature for me, replaceable media. oh and cheap ones to...

no good have ever come from mixing both sides like sony does, basicly they end up using to much time and energy fighting themselfs. like say when riaa (or was it mpaa) sued some electronics group in usa for some reason or other. sony was a member of both partys. talk about split personality

and the psp allso uses expensive memorysticks. now if one could buy flash cards in packages of 5-10 i would not complain but given the cost of 1 card with the capasity similar to a hi-md a 10 pack would cost the same as a new computer, not exactly trowaway storage...

i have simply one wish, playback of mp3s right of the fat file system. ie, drag and drop mp3s onto the player in the normal windows gui. this will allso make the system appeal to users of other operating system and will make it so simple to use i think people will go crazy over it. this small thing will make it worthy of the walkman logo as the format is then the perfect replacement for the cassette in this digital age. i think this small change will basicly skyrocket the hi-md as a floppy replacement. the storage media is cheap and replaceable and functional. buy them in boxes of 10 and you can give away some of them if needed without care as you can allways grab a new box of 10. sony is currently strangleing a perfect format by putting all sorts of crasy restrictions on it. i say, sony should sell of their movie and music biz and go back to being what made them great, a electronics company! stop worrying about copyright violations and give the user what they wants, simple access to entertainment wherever they are without silly restricitons...

hmm, i kinda think i have seen this "news" before. something about a new reading head for hi-md player. no specific talk about sharp coming out with hi-md enabled units or anything like that... i realy do wish that someone would make a hi-md unit that basicly reads mp3s right of the file system without this crap drm stuff that sony have it wrapped up in. oh well, maybe is should just go with a iriver player as there is get a 20 gb hardrive with mp3 playback on top btw, anyone knows whats going on with that buffalo player?

err, are you saying that the communication between the device and the software is encrypted to? if so then those sony techs where maybe a bit paranoid

heh, poke it the right way and i may all kinds of tricks? looking forward to seeing how this develops. hope it does not die in idle guesswork like that other thread did (i guess i had an effect on that).

do you want that md rare or flash-fried?

true, unless you put one hell of a heat blocking layer between the sides your going to rewrite side 1 when you try to rewrite side 2...

and while that is going on you cant play anything back on it or remove the media. basicly what your doing is just moving the "problem". i must say that i much prefer knowing that when the write is done its done.

i just wish someone would licence the hi-md physical format but basicly turn it into a general issue DAP system. ie, playing back most non-drm music formats and dealing with the discs as if they where a kind of floppy. basicly the idea of a small size, 1 GB mo disc is damn nice. but the way its currently used is basicly going to kill it...

would be interesting to find out, someone up for the job?

could it be the drm wrapper that somehow interfers?

hmm, so basicly they are using the same wrapper for both the atrac and the mp3 files?

straight of the disc or when they are transferd to pc? and is this the software your talking about? http://www.goldwave.com if so then i cant find any refrence to it being able to handle oma files...

im guessing here but i think one should be able to return the player to where ever one got it from free of charge and they will then get in contact with sony about any repair bills.

hmm, based on fishstyc's theory and that you can move a hi-md from player to player without trouble there is a theory about how it works: the hi-md may(most likely) contain a hidden area but i belive all it keeps there is a encryption key for the disc. so when you write a song to the disc it then encrypts the song with the disc key and thereby locks the song to the physical media (kinda like what they where trying to do with the scc on dvd's). this key is replaced whenever a disc is formated. allso, given that you can transfer recording done by the player ones, but older recorded files cant be transferd at all suggests that there are multiple filetypes hidden under the same oma structure. and as these files are allso wrapped up in encryption (and can be backed up by sonicstage keeping a list of uploaded recordings somewhere. most likely using sha-1 or similar checksum systems. checksum the file before transfer, keep checksum, if someone tryes to transfer a recording with the same checksum again refuse), trying to change one filetype to another by altering bits will most likely turn the whole file into a mess. the thing is that if we can sniff the right signals from the usb traffic we may well be able to initate a file transfer without sonicstage. then we have a cleanroom transfer to work with. right now its allmost double blind trying to figure out the content on the disc...

i hope this little gizmo makes the jump to the world market