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There is an MP3 conversion tool on the SOny website which runs in the background. Give it a try

Look in SS options for "location to save recorded files". Then go to that folder and delete oma's You would be better off using bundled Simple Burner which doesn't leave junk on HD

Bottom line you cannot swap SS-genenrated music files on the Internet. Whether you or anyone would want to do it is another story

I would try to transfer files to MD in "SP mode". If this works you are home free because this is the oldest mode that any MD on the planet should read

there are couple of annoyances I can think of - when I import a folder it sorts tracks in some random order instead of by track number, so I have to re-sort them

It's not really a problem, it's the way Real operates - it converts a file to atrac, then waits for it to download to MD, then converts the next one etc. SS uses the download time to convert the the next track, so on my PC at least the mp3>atrac conversion runs much faster than the MD can write to disc

try to isolate the problem - try different disc/player/PC until the prob goes away

Real does not work with himd and is a Real pain in the ass to use w/Netmd. SS multitasks - it converts and transfers at the same time while Real can do only one task at a time, so transfers take twice as long.

In your situation the best thing to do would be to hook up the MD to your stereo and record the LPs via analog in

105kbps is NOT a standard MD bitrate - that could be your problem. Try 132

After much soul-searching and deliberation, I have decided to bid adieu to my 600D and put it on Ebay. I haven';t really warmed up to this gadget. The main complaint is its sound - something is missing there, even SP and LP recordings sound much miore alive on my old NetMd unit. I discovered it quite accidentally - I misplaced my Hi-MD and had to pull my trusty NetMD out of retirement. An rediscovered that it sound pretty damn good, never mind that the buttons don't work. Add to that some Hi-MD annoyances - like it takes forever between the time you push the play button and the time it starts playing. It pretends to be a USB drive - but can it be any slower? So what's the next step? No I am not going to prostitute myself with an iPod. That little computer is just too sterile and impersonal for me. A Sony NW HD1 player is an intriguing possibility, and would be a quite compelling little package if they add mp3 support and drop the price. The is a fly in the ointment tho - no jog dial! Way to go SOny - putting a jog dial on a 1 gig Himd, but no dial on the 20 gig hd players, so it's click click click all the way

There is a downloadable SOny mp3 conversion tool which crawls your HD for mp3s and converts them to atrac and adds them to the SS library while you sleep. The advantage is that pre-converted files transfer to MD much faster

which I guess brings us back to square 1 - since most of ATRAC recordings are home-made from 16 bit sources they would be by definition inferior to the original. However, if the label were to master the MDs from the original 24-bit tapes, conceivably they may sound better than their CD brethren. If the MD player has a hi-res decoder that is

you gain nothing by converting your cds to wavs first. You lose the id3 tags, plus you lose the very nifty PCM (lossless) mode which is available only if you rip the CD directly to SS.

with an ipod you are actually carrying only 600 usable megs of music because your battery runs out. The other 20 gigs is essentially ballast. The other consideration is convenience - with an MD you get one-click cd-md recording - no fuss, no clogged HD, nothing to learn