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I think I want to try to build this, but what is 1% film? Where do you use it?

Last summer I had my Sharp MT-15 in the car, planning to record the Dave Matthews Band show in Hershey. During the day we were at the Penn. Renaissance Faire, and I left my MD in the trunk of my car during a pretty hot day (June 25). When I set up to record the show that evening, I received the dreaded UTOC error. Was it caused by the heat, and is it repairable? I was heartbroken because it's always been so reliable for me and has never given me any grief.

Unit: Sharp MS702 portable, Sony JE510 home unit daily use: I don't use it on a daily basis; see my next entry favorite use: I use it to record concerts, including the Dave Matthews Band, Phish (though no longer), Widespread Panic, moe., ekoostik Hookah, Blues Traveler, etc., as well as my niece's senior recital at the Cleveland Institute of Music professional use: I am an audio professional, but the owner of my company, for high-end recording, insists on DAT exclusively. alternatives? I used to use analog cassettes to record concerts, but the quality difference between cassette and MD was so great, I don't consider cassette to be an alternative. DAT would be my only other option. request: Increase the sound quality of Hi-MD, and make drives for computers so audio could be ripped from MD's like it can be with CD's.

Got it figured out. I think it was that the optical cable wasn't plugged in all the way on my sound card. The plug is really wide, and just has trouble fitting between the edges of the slot. It's like the troubleshooting sections in equipment manuals: "Is unit plugged in?" Scott

Thanks for your help, but unfortunately, still nothing. There are no hardware conflicts. I even checked the motherboard devices for conflicts on that level, and nothing. The analog ports work fine. I'm thinking I should contact Yamaha, but since they no longer make sound cards, I wonder if they still support them other than offering drivers for download. Thanks for all your suggestions. Scott

Sorry for the lateness of my reply. I hope it's still relevant. You can transfer music as a file by using an ethernet router, assuming the two PC's have ethernet cards. You basically connect them into a two-PC file-sharing network. I do recording on a laptop for work and have to transfer the .wav files to the desktop PC to burn to CD all the time.

Here's my dilemma: I want to digitally transfer MD's I record live to my computer to burn to CD-R, but nothing's coming through. The equipment: Sony JE-510, Acoustic Research optical cable (brand new), Yamaha YM744 sound card, Cool Edit Pro 1.1 running on Win 98. I have a 400 Mhz P3 with 192M of RAM. The Yamaha is the second sound card. The first is a SB something integrated into the mother board. The drivers are installed, the device is selected in Settings, and in the CEP settings, the Yamaha is selected under "Waveform record" in options/settings/devices. I switched the Win98 recording control over to the Yamaha card and selected "Digital In" and made sure the record level was up. I don't get any signal in Cool Edit, nor do I get any sound through the speakers. The analogs on the sound card work. As an experiment, I connected the optical out from the sound card to the optical in on the MD, played a .wav file in CEP and tried recording it on the MD. I got the "Din Unlock" message. I also tried optically recording from the MD deck to my portable (Sharp MD-MT15) and got "Din Unlock" on my portable. Any ideas? I'm fairly new to digital transferring, but not to recording on my PC, nor to recording in general. Scott