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  1. if yorue concerned about sound quality.... theres also the issue converting from one lossy comrpession format to another

    unless you kept all the CDs you purchased even after you ripped them to MP3... then you have no problem, cus you could rip them again

    me, i threw them all out

    .....yeah

    while im posting, i'll repeat again what we all know: sonic stage is...... incredibly pathetic when it comes to simply importing a file or folder, or any number of other menial functions..... i cant express how amazed i am with the quality of the software

  2. Sony actually has its own lossless-compression audio format called Sony Perfect Clarity Audio (.pca file extension) that you can use in Sound Forge (at least in v. 7.0)

    ive heard it said on these forums that lossess compression wouldn't be able to work on Hi-MD because of the variable compression

    but now we know the new ones will support VBR .mp3s, so...

    yes i would love lossless support, for listening and also for recording(!!)

  3. is it possible to burn a bunch of ATRAC 3+ files onto a CD-R, using SS or not (whichever might work), then import those to your SS library without copying them to your HD so that you can transfer them from the CD to a Hi-MD through SS?

  4. i think this has been discussed here before... what is the max theoretical capacity of current Hi-MD units?

    is anyone sure they are capable of using higher capacity media at all?

    i think i remember 2 gigs coming up before....

    edit:

    I'd really like to see higher bitrate compressed recordings.... somewhere between HI-SP and PCM

    im not sure how practical that would be since i dont know the inner details of compression and psychoacoustics.... but all the compressed formats top out at close to MP3's 320kb/s

    i wouldn't assume that compression 'wouldn't be worth it' mathematically above that rate simply because its not around... since most people consider that the equivalent of CD quality anyway it wouldn't be worth it to them

    HI-SP is about 1:5 right?

    a 1:3 or 1:2 compression ratio would be interesting..... 180 minutes on a Hi-MD with quality somewhere between HI-SP and PCM...

    or simply bring back mono recording, if only for PCM, which i imagine keeps L and R chanels more sperate than ATRAC, making the data savings from recording in mono more significant

  5. Sony needs to get it over with and release prosumer/professional grade Hi-MD portables and decks.  sleep.gif They are soooo barking up the wrong tree; they have no chance vs. Apple, Creative, Rio, etc... in the portable audio market...

    okay, okay, I'll stop, I'll stop. But you guys seriously have to admit that Sony isn't marketing Hi-MD (well actually, that statement right there is true enough, they sure aren't marketing it at all) toward the proper consumer base.

    Oh well. Hopefully Sony will yank its head out of its nether regions and start marketing Hi-MD aggressively and focused toward tapers.

    i agree

    they make (some inexpensive) portable DATs, and lots of other professional portable sound and video equipment.... their brand already has credibility

    its almost like they succeeded by accident in prosumer portable audio recording... the marketing seems totally absent

    people have to find out about it for themselves

    im sure its a deliberate business strategy, but its frustrating... it seems like it would be so easy to just optimize the NH900s interface for recording, give it a date/time stamp, slap a different name on it and thats all it would need to be a very competitive prosumer tool.... (actually, a very appealing one with little competition to speak of)

    especially given how fashionable sampling and electronic music have become/are

    becoming... its a wonder why Sony doesn't throw its weight behind that trend

    edit: and considering how stiff the competition is in portable listening, where minidisk really isn't a very convincing option compared to HDs and flash, or even CD players

  6. yes this is REALLY annoying

    remember for a long time there was lots of complaining about not being able to change recording levels in real time while youre recording, but that IS possible, even though the manual does not make it clear (its kind of cryptic)

    anyways i hope this is like the recording level issue and there really is some way to disable this assery

    has anyone asked sony tech support about it?

  7. could someone email this to me at <andrew the number twenty at gmail.com>? (with no spaces, and the number twenty is really the number twenty, as in a two and a zero)

    thanks a lot

    lossless downloading.... awsome

    or the URL for the installer, either way

    is this on a Sony website? if so why not just post the link?

  8. i have a question....

    i just started using my big condenser mic with my HiMD (i had only used the in-ear binaurals that can be powered by the minidisc recorder itself before)

    So i have the mic going into a behringer tube ultragain 2000 using 48v phantom power

    i use the 1/4 TRS out on the behringer into the line in on my NH900

    I understand gain-staging to mean keeping the signal as high as possible all the way through the signal chain without clipping

    does this mean i should have the signal coming out of the behringer as high as i can get without clpping on that unit, so the NH900 is recieving as strong a signal as possible? This would mean keeping the NH900's gain on a very low setting, well below unity gain (of course, im keeping the meters on the nh900 as high as possible without clipping)

    OR should i set up the signal going into the NH900 so that im using "unity gain" on the NH900?

  9. i had a similar problem, and somone else too...... sonicstage would crash before filling a disc, every time, rendering the disc "not read or write"-able in the process and leaving me with no option but to reformat

    the closer i got to full the more likely it was to happen

    i wasn't able to find any cause or solution

    now i leave 15-20% free space on my discs and add the last content on the disc very carefully, that is, slowly, only a few songs at a time

    it hasn't crashed since ive done this

    the thread about my and similar problems is here:

    http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7310

  10. Caveat: since there is no real standard for how codecs pass metadata [title tags &c.] this would make it even harder to get titles and such passed to SS.  Not impossible, though.

    and that is why we need totalitarian governments

    im pretty sure i remember reading in this forum that SS sucks at resampling, according to the poster anyway, he didn't refer to anything to back it up

    he may very well have been talking about one particular rate, and if he was it was probably 48000

  11. SonicStage is just innapropriate for managing recorded audio, its a dumbed down music collection-manager with training wheels that doesn't seem to take recording into consideration at all

    i would edit my post to italicize music collection but i dont seem to be able to for some reason

    and its 6:30 am... why am i awake italicizing things?

  12. The issue is more with the HiMD's not automatically titling tracks.  How do you retrieve a non-existent title?

    sonicstage puts numbers in the file names upon uploading to your computer... Untitled (58) Untitled (59) etc

    assuming you upload in the same order you recorded them, the numbering would make sense

    im used to using those kinds of titles anyway for recorded audio

    that reminds me of another SonicStageism that pisses me off... music from different albums are not kept in different folders in Windows, they're all in one massive folder

    its a little thing but its so annoying...

    but yeah one would expect machines like the hi-md recorders to at least be able to number recorded tracks on their own

    I'd like to see Sony create a SonicStage alternative or supplementary program for people who actually use minidiscs for the biggest thing they're good for: recording audio

    SonicStage is just innapropriate for managing recorded audio, its a dumbed down music collection-manager with training wheels that doesn't seem to take recording into consideration at all

    i can understand that they want to keep their music management software simple, especially since it has to deal with audioCDs, AtracCDs, flash players, minidiscs, your hard drive, and portable HD players and work smoothly for any kind of consumer (eg "im 50 and i want an mp3 player for jogging... what the hell is a context menu?") using any of those mediums....

    but for the users who can handle more than four big round colourful buttons on the screen at a time, please Sony stop crippling your products

  13. Is what it exists a software of transformation of Hi-MD toward the format *.wav, another one that the one of SonicStage ?

    im not sure if youre saying you dont want to use Sony's wav converter... its not SonicStage, its a seperate piece of software

    " WAV Conversion Tool"

    http://www.sonydigital-link.com/DNA/himd/himd.asp?l=en

    there is also an independant, non-Sony program that is supposed to be very good:

    http://marcnetsystem.co.uk/cgi-bin/mn2.pl?...19?drs=,83,39,2,

  14. i recorded an hour and a half drumming yesterday, placing trackmarks along the way

    i ended up with a lot of tracks, which i uploaded to sonicstage

    and i was happy

    then i accidently hit the "Length" column and sorted them all by song length

    i then realized that having all the tracks named the exact same thing is an enormous pain in the ass

    now the .oma files themselves are automatically numbered ("Untitled (58)" for example), but sonicstage does not give them track numbers or titles

    is there any way to automatically name or number large numbers of tracks within sonicstage?

    thanks

    btw i got them back into the original order by sorting them by 'date recorded'... which is actually sorting them by the time they entered sonicstage

  15. you cant save what you record in audacity?

    well theres your first problem... youre going to have to save the music to your harddrive before you can burn it to a CD

    what happens when you try to save?

    once you do get it saved, and i recommend you record and save as a 16 bit 44100hz .wav file (which is probably the default in audacity), the easiest way to get it to a CD might be to use iTunes

    you can get it for free here:

    http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

    im not even computer or audio illiterate and i used it for a long time because its so incredibly simple and easy.... it takes care of all the converting and techincal stuff for you, you just choose the music and tell it to burn a CD, and it does just that

    ive never seen easier cd burning software

  16. I've talked to a close associate of Rachel Branch [who is presenting the portable audio @ CES] today on the phone and she has noted that it is unlikely to see any new models at CES. Note I say models. I have been hearing alot of chit-chat down the grapevine from my contacts about some other developments for Hi-MD that should be announced this month [i assume CES], but I'm starting to think that won't happen until Feb/March.

    any idea of what kind of developments?

  17. you can plug your AC adapter straight into the unit, theres a port for it called "DC IN 3V" next to the ports used by the cradle... you can use this to charge or power the unit

    ive never used the cradle to charge my NH900

    also you may be interested to know that you can actually change recording levels while recording.... for a long while i heard nothing but "it sucks that you have to pause to change levels!!!"... then someone mentioned that you can use the forward and reverse positions on the joystick to adjust the levels

    you can also just turn the wheel

  18. swiching the USB port made no difference

    once a 1 gig disc gets to about 500 megs full, adding any individual track starts to take a veeerrrrry long time, if it happens at all. if i add more than a couple it freezes, the minidisc freezes (even after disconnected) and wont stop until you cut off power, and the disc is erased

    with 300 meg discs i can get them closer to full before this happens, like within 40 megs

    simpleburner has the same problem

    any ideas?

    has anyone else experienced this?

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