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I dont think that Sony will ever reveal an OMG to WAV converter. Those wishes connot be realized due to the Copyright protection Sony has to provide. On the other hand, its very bad that even recordings from LINE-IN cannot be convertet. I got a MD, i cant even download any of the songs to the PC. As long as the write-Protection is enabled, the Software even wont start ripping. When i remove the write protection, it always show me an error message. Therefore, just forget it. Sony made a lot of advertisement with PCM, MD-kompatibility, etc.... bla bla bla. But when you buy a Hi-MD unit, you will know how disappointed you will be really (like me). And Sony is not even going to do anything for their customers. They only want you to buy their gadgets, after that, just forget any of your wish, which is not implemented in the Sony Software. For Example, i still didnt find any way to upload a MONO-Standar ATRAC Song to a Standard-MD in MONO-mode. It always converted to Stereo. But i dont want that. I want to use MONO and hava a playback time of 160 Minutes.

i have one MZ-NH 600 since this week, but i also didnt finy any HI-MD Media yet, so i bought myself 2 MDW74 and use it in HI-MD Mode.

No. It also contains ATRAC. But unfortunately, they have just forget to select MONO-Mode also. By the way: MONO is always a part of Stereo. That means, whenever a Hardware can play Stereo, it logically can always also play MONO. Do you know Russian Dolls? Just imagine, the smallest doll wont fit into the big doll ! Thants impossible ! Haha !

Today i did another test with the sonicstage2.0: As we all know that the old normal MD-Format is able to record in MONO, i tried to do the same with SonicStage2.0. First of all i formatted a MDW74 into Standard NET-MD format. I convertet a MONO-WAV file into the SP-ATRAC Format, and then uploaded to the MiniDisc. For my bad surprise, when i look in the Property of the File, the File on my HDD is 4 MB, whereas on the MiniDisc it is 8 MB, in the Software there is Stereo written. And when i playback the song, i cant see MONO-in the Display of my MD-Walkman. Now people, dont come and tell me its impossible to record in MONO on a Standard MDW in SP-Mode, because we all know that this even worked ten years ago... and my old MDS-500 and MDS-520 are gonna record 148 Minutes on a MDW74.... Can anyone tell me how to switch within SonicStage to upload the song in 100 % MONO?? I have already sent on E-Mail to Sony Germany to improe that thing in the SonicStage, but will they ever do???

There are a lot of things in this world not available.... but that doesnt mean that those are not possible. For example: did you ever hear Stereo-MP3 with 640 kbits/s ? I bet not. But i can verify you, its possible to create a 320 kbits Mono-MP3 with lame: -b 320 -m m -o -q 0 -k It works! On MP3 Player, old DVD-Player, Winamp etc.... Compared to Stereo, this will provide a 640 kbits (2 * 320), but unfortunately i didnt find any option to do create such an powerful MP3 file using lame. Even if its possible, there is just no option given! In case of Hi-MD or Standard-MD: Here, in my opinion, Sony should make it to the primary task to achieve everything..... not only a bunch of something. Its just a configuration/ software solution problem they have just forget. There is no need of a new hardware. Just improve the software SonicStage and make it possible to create 100 % Mono files and allow to double the playback and recording time in each recording mode.

Does anyone know how to upload a WAV file as PCM onto the MiniDisc in Hi-MD Mode? I did not find any option in Sonic Stage 2.0 to do this. Of course in MONO i can store 56 Minutes digitally and lossles onto a standard MDW80. How to do this?

I converted 141 Minutes of MONO-Wav into the Atrac3+ 256kbits, and uploaded to a MDW80 (Hi-MD formatted). During playback on the display there is no "Mono" shown. What happened here? Due to the fact, that the converted files (*.omg) are encrypted, i cant even see if those are converted in Stereo or Mono. My suspicion is, that those files have been converted into Stereo. But thats exactly what i dont want. I prefer one MONO channel with 256kbits, instead of 2 Stereo channels with each 128kbits from a MONO-Source file. Does anyone have further information?

In SonicStage 2.0 i formatted my MDW-74 to Standard NET-MD. Then i uploaded my MONO-WAV-File to the MiniDisc. The Bulls*it is, that i coul NOT choose the MONO-Mode for uploading. That means, you are always forced to upload in Stereo, even if the source file is in Mono. Damn.

The primary aim for me is to achieve the double playback or recording time compared to stereo recording. I own a MZ-NH 600 since 2004-08-11. In the booklet, on page 27, there is a table showing the playback/recording times for each mode. PCM-Stereo ==> 28 Minutes on MDW80 // 94 Minutes on 1GB HI-MD HI-SP-Stereo ==> 140 Minutes on MDW80 // 475 Minutes on 1GB HI-MD HI-LP-Stereo ==> 610 Minutes on MDW80 // 2040 Minutes on 1GB HI-MD But as it was possible with the normal MD (ATRAC) to double the playback/recording time, is this also possible with HI-MD??????? According to the Table above, the MONO-mode will double the playback/recording to this new table: PCM-Mono ==> 56 Minutes on MDW80 // 188 Minutes on 1GB HI-MD HI-SP-Mono ==> 280 Minutes on MDW80 // 950 Minutes on 1GB HI-MD HI-LP-Mono ==> 1220 Minutes on MDW80 // 4080 Minutes on 1GB HI-MD Can anyone verify me these specs?