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I'm surprised that Tekdroid's "good" points don't include and the ability to turn of auto track marks (if these really are part of the feature set). These together with what seems to be a "proper" record level control seem to me to make the unit significantly more useable for live recording, which is the point of this model it seems. Despite having an nh1 and and nh900 I'd be interested in this model on those grounds alone if it makes it to Australia.

Based more on instinct than experience, I wonder whether recording with a normal stereo mic and mixing in a mono parabolic mic would work? You could thereby decide on how much focus you wanted on the distant source.

http://tinyurl.com/g7web is a link to a site being advertised at the bottom of some pages here. It's clearly a "warez/cracks" site. I realise that adverts tend to be placed automatically but it would be nice if such sites could somehow be excluded. The page here that this ad appeared on is http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=14522&st=15 but I don't know whether it will have rotated to something else by now.

Well.... I'm pretty sure the audio I have just retransferred from Hi-SP to wave using an NH900 is the audio which caused my concern about little repeats at track marks in the past, and it certainly does not seem to be amiss now. It's quite good test material, being simply the sound of people talking quietly on stage in a large hall after a rehearsal, with footsteps or other small transients triggering auto track marks at frequent intervals. Before, I could not only hear the repeats but zooming in on the waveform in Audition I could clearly see the repeats. So... a cautious "thank you Sony" from me too - if I have any cause in the future to doubt that the problem has been fixed, you can be sure I shall be back here like a shot to report it! Just read what you posted about an archive of versions - the installers posted here would presumably form that, if they have been kept? - which they must have been, somewhere by someone, if only by the hero who prepared them in the first place?

Very nicely worked out test. However, the proof of the pudding would be to repeat the test with an older version of SS and see what the differences are. Something personally I can't be bothered to do so I can't blame you for not having totally proved the point that way! However, the other way to prove the point would be to upload a previously problematic file and see what the result is. I might be able to try that, if I can find the one I have in mind.

Search the forum for Edirol and you'll come up with some previous discussions.

I wonder whether it's up to the Brazilian climate.

Getting a bit aside from the original topic, but I use Audition to create wave files with cues at the start of every track, then use CueListTool to create a cue sheet for burning. CueListTool can invoke Nero direct. CueListTool is at http://www.stefanbion.de/cueltool/index_e.htm and is a very hand piece of freeware once you've got the hang of it. Quite unique in fact. Sadly although it supports Wavpack files it's never been updated to handle Wavpack 4.x version.

Indeed this whole mindisc business is getting a bit boring - less and less to find elegant workarounds for! Blinkin' Sony, spoiling our fun....

As I recall it that's been possible for a long time - but.... ... I forget what the actual use of that procedure is! Remind me of the possibilities.

At risk of getting off topic - (because I'm getting beyond "simple", but it's currently a free beta and some say it will only be about $20 when finished), is "Reaper". Nothing much in the looks department, but the rate of development is spectacular - new features added daily - has vst support, automation, auto crossfades, and many other features that quite costly audio programs can lack. Once complete I'd predict it will shake the audio editing software market to its core. The guy who is writing it apparently wrote Winamp. http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php is the site - but a warning - although I have had no trouble with it here, I have heard reports from colleagues that it totally crashes their PCs. So don't try it unless you've saved all other programs' data.

In SS3.4, that won't work if the files are short, as more than once per second can be imported (I've just tried with ten tracks each of a few seconds length - they all have the same "date imported" value except for one). Better to use the "File Path" column, as the filename given there now begins with a three digit sequence number, which does give you an absolute means of providing correct order both within SS and externally.

dex, can I make a suggestion re your excellent new thread about bugfixes/feature requests needed in 3.4? Perhaps if you made it a read-only thread for most, have members requests discussed in another thread, and then kept the original thread up to date and coherent yourself as a result of those discussions, it would make it more likely for Sony to actually read it? As I read through it myself I came across a number of issues listed in the first post which I was thinking "but that feature is already in there" in relation to upload file naming - later on you acknowledge that, but maybe it would be worth amending the first post to reflect your later thoughts? A bugfix I would like to see is that uploading dates incorporated into filename should reflect the system date, whereas at present I'm getting years ranging across a couple of centuries! But I'm reluctant to add that to the main thread as perhaps it's a local issue of some kind, and the main thread should perhaps not get clagged up with a discussion about whether a particular bug does or does not exist. Just a thought... don't get me wrong, it's a great start there!

Funny, I was thinking just that while walking the dogs in the park this afternoon! Really most of what I have posted has been completely overtaken by events, though someone insisting on using an earlier version might still find something useful in our earlier exchange. I'll put in a note at the beginning pointing people to the later part if using 3.4+ - for instance, the new naming scheme in 3.4 (I never tried 3.3 so maybe it was there too) deals with the track order sorting problem mentioned in the first post too, so even that aspect has been overtaken by events. (Shame that the year in the date part of the filename gets garbled though, or at least it does here).

I've given that procedure some testing using a thumb drive to transfer tracks from SS3.4 on one Pc to SS3.4 on another, and apart from being slightly cumbersome it seems to work well. However, if you delete the entries from the Library and tick the box that causes the original files to be deleted, the copies in the "optimised files" folder are deleted as well as the originals. The long arm of Sony strikes again. Just something to be aware of (if not already) in one's workflow.

Thanks for that. In the welter of posts following the introduction of 3.4 I'd not taken that one on board. I'll give it a try later.

It's late at night here, and I'm eight months older than when I last posted on this matter - which made sense at the time - so I can't right now get my head around it fully - but I'm wondering whether the advent of SS3.4 would make the method that I suggested for backing up to CD fully workable now? In other words, does the catch pointed out by dex still apply? I guess the answer might be to try it myself and see.... might do so tomorrow if I awake feeling intelligent.

Digital transfer from a CD player via optical or digital transfer from your PC via USB should have no "sound" as such - if correctly implemented the digits from the CD are being transferred as is. What the MD recorder then does to them in terms of data compression and resampling is another matter of course.

http://www.rolandus.com/products/productde...57&ParentId=114 has the details of the new Roland R-09 recorder which may be seen as yet another attempt to compete with MiniDisc - will it go the way of the others in not quite having the right feature set? (Don't think I've seen it mentioned here before - if so, please delete!)

All good news... I guess you can't upload with write protected disks, though? I'll download the new version shortly and then I suppose I can answer my own question....

Under the right sort of light a coating can indeed be seen on the screen, but I suspect it is there for a reason, quite possibly scratch resistance. So removing it might not be a good scheme in the long run. Perhaps doomlordis will let us know how it looks in a month or two....

Palm Tungsten E here, with a 512mb card in it. Currently loaded with all my contacts, 10 years of diaries, sundry docs including backup of all my software serial nos, several ebook novels, and the Brandenburg Concertos to which I'm listening right now. Great thing is that if you find yourself suddenly delayed in a supermarket queue or the doctor's waiting room, you can work, read, listen, whatever, all from a tiny package. And the easy backup to PC means that you don't have to worry too much about physical or data loss. I sync it to my wife's PC as well as mine so our diaries are co-ordinated. Perhaps the most useful gadget of the lot.

Can't help posting a health warning - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4580070.stm - where Pete Townshend attributes his hearing problems not so much to loud music on stage but to headphones in the recording studio and at home.

If you used an audio editing program which provides volume envelopes (a line representing how much the volume should be raised or lowered along the length of the file) you could in theory restore at least some of the damage, but it would be a labour of love... though as you went along you'd start to get a feel for the kind of slopes involved.

You'd need a USB OTG Bridge - but the device of that type I tried with my NH1 didn't work with it. A search of the forum should turn up some previous mentions.