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When connected to an emac as storage media, my 700 sometimes crashes and sometimes makes the Apple crash with it too when the player is "safely" removed from the Apple. The player will make racing sounds for a long time (that must not be good for the player) and still races after it is unhitched from the Apple, and at times crash the Apple where the only way out is to take out the power. This happens at random as there are times this player will eject properly from the mac with no racing sounds. What causes this to happen and are there ways to avoid it from happening ???

It's normal for that model, got a '700 and it makes that sound too. The previous minidisc (Sharp 721) had no sound at all when recording. Got around the problem when recording with the 700 by putting an extension cord between the mic and the player and holding the mic away from the player The player is also kept inside a very thick beany hat (used like a bag) so this may help muffle the sound too.

This is a hot question, can someone please answer as soon as possible and don't let this post fall off the bottom again until it is answered. Has anyone also taken waves made by TotalRecorder, HIMDRenderer and the Wave Converter and compared the results ???

The good news is, the cap fell off after the cord was removed so it isn't jammed in the inlet so nothing is wrong. Never new that the bulbs on the ends were only caps and not part of the cord

Tried pushing it into the "line in" but it doesn't go in easily and must be jammed in. When taking it out, the "bulb" fell off. Not made any recording with that cord yet, just curious where it goes.

There was one extra thing in the contents of the minidisc box, a black cord with small "light bulbs" on each end. This wasn't listed in the contents of the box and there's no instructions on its use. Where on the player is it put into ???

The great bargain that started this post is at http://www.minidisc-canada.com/shopexd.asp?id=368 and simple maths will show the price difference. Coincidentally, my '700 and 3 himd discs also came from JB at Bondi Junction too. What's in Sefu's '700 bonus pack ??? Is it the same one that was offered in August only with a bag and a 4 battery charger ???

After seeing other posts here about bargain prices in the US and Canada, Aussies paying $499 for an nh700, $599 for an nh800 suddenly becomes very expensive compared to many other countries. What's the cause of Aussie overpricing ??? my '700 cost $469 (at sale time) and a T shaped mic (purchased 1 year earlier) ecmds70p cost $149 (full price). edit The $469 pack also came with a bonus pack containing a bag and battery charger.

Got a 700 and it works with its mic recordings, not certain with the 600, it might only work with analog line and mic recordings there, with the 600d there's nothing for the wave converter to convert because there's no analog inputs on the player. Looks like the 700 and 600 are selling in very small numbers compared to the more expensive players, so it wasn't mentioned

Would pcm sound be riddled with faults too ??? There is nothing to lose in pcm as it's uncompressed. It looks like it doesn't "rip" the tracks like a cd ripper does but re records it, making it go through a second round of compressing before ending up as wavs. It could be watermarking so the wavs can be traced back to wave converter.

It works with the '700 too (on my computer), it should work on all other '700s and computers too.

Tried the Wave Converter, and it's not a real fire and forget way, as all outputted tracks are named untitled(1), untitled(2), untitled(3), etc. Why doesn't it keep the track names and sort the outputted waves into folders where the albums were. Let's hope all tracks aren't being secretly watermarked or soundcoded by the Wave Converter with illicit codes that allow the waves to be traced to Wave Converter or Sonicstage and the copies are exact as it was when it was tied up in Sonicstage.

There's tons of stories about downloads screwing up when being sent from minidisc to computer. Does this happen only to 1gb discs ??? On my computer and '700 nothing has ever gone wrong, and all recordings are done in pcm on the older style smaller discs and (169 or so tracks) had so far sucessfully been put onto the computer. If there are frequent screw ups with the music side of things, how reliable is hi~md in storing non music stuff ???

That installer is too smart. It would only get an "upgrade pack" and not get the complete installer. Already got 2.1, and don't feel like upgrading it yet, also want to be able to install 2.2 straight away without first installing 2.1. Still interesting in snagging the upgrade pack too. Does it say "next" after it downloaded all the required parts but before installing begins (the time to copy) and can the installation material dug from the temp folder be opened like any .exe or must it be tricked into working ???

Someone please answer this as soon as possible. The reason is that 2.2 can burn music and MP3 cd's and not just atrac cd's, and this feature may be removed at anytime, with the web connected installer, it is vulnerable to downloading an "updated" Sonicstage 2.2 which will only burn atrac cd's while a "complete" installer is not influenced by this and will burn mp3 and music cd's even if this feature is removed sonicstage 2.2

Where can the complete and whole installer for Sonicstage 2.2 be found ??? Don't want the "incomplete" version which requires connection to the web to install but want a "complete" installer which will install when the computer is not connected to the web. It must also be the one which can burn music or MP3 cd's

Sontcstage 2.1 is the one used right now, is there any hacks, cracks or patches for 2.1 to make music and MP3 cd burning possible ??? as upgrading to 2.2 may lose a few features that 2.1 got. Where to get the "stand alone" installer of Sonicstage 2.2 that doesn't download components ??? the connect version is incomplete and must download to finish the job.

Why is only the viao's factory installed Sonicstage can burn music and mp3 cd's while sonicstages that are installed on all other computers can only make ATRAC cd's ??? Is there anyway to get the version that makes music and MP3 cd's short of getting a viao??? This would mean no more trying to find the right volume level for each TotalRecording as the computer sound volume slides the levels one way and Total recorder slides it the other way with it's recording level slider. With direct burning of MP3 and music cd's this will bypass the two "conflicting" volume levels. Pretty unfair in many ways.

It looks like something kept the player from finishing its write and "tidying up" the disc for next time it is used as storage media and all those weird file and folders created only when the disc is inside the player, meaning all the tracks are there, only scattered everywhere. Meanwhile, the disc has been put aside, never to be used until a way has been found to get those tracks back or if there is definitely no way of getting it back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From now on, all recording will be done on the old sized discs unless the old discs are not long enough so if a disc breaks, less sound will be lost. New ways to record had been made up when a recording is so important it cannot be repeated or if the minidisc chews more discs. A tape recording Walkman will be kept in a dedicated pocket of the bag, ready to be hitched up to a mic in a pocket kept at the other side of the bag, when recording is to be done, both the minidisc and tape will go and stopped at the same time, so if the minidisc screws up, the tape will always be there as backup

Today, my '700 cheweed a disc, can anyone explain this ??? Starting with a blank disc, 2 recordings were made, when the player was connected to the computer, Sonicstage wouldn't see any tracks on the disc, even though two recordings were made earlier, the display on the player said "cannot read or record disc" When viewing the contents of the disc in file storage mode, there were a whole pile of folders and files with strange characters with extensions such as .uav, .uqv, .usv, .Ñaª , .àRå etc instead of the usual HMA folder and file. Not happy about this because these recordings are not repeatable. What happened here ??? and is there some way to recover the lost tracks ??? Is there some way to not let this happen again ???

When copying music or sound from the minidisc to computer, and the track is labeled as "no more copies" would it be the player that does it or Sonicstage telling the player to mark it off, or is it the copy allowance flags so it is possible to flag a track as "unlimited copies" for unlimited copying to computer ??? Has minidisc players ever been chipped before so it will ignore the flags for unlimited digital copies whatever the flag ??? If it's being done to DVD players, then why not minidisc ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If it's Sonicstage telling the player to flag the tracks, then it will be a case of a crack or patch to make Sonicstage to leave the flags alone If it's the player, chipping may be required to get the desired result.

It an upload gets screwed up, will Sonicstage let you know ??? or must everything be listened to to make sure everything is right ??? Do you also get a second chance to replace ruined uploads ??? If not, there should be a verify function in Sonicstage which will make sure everything adds up or retry uploading if it didn't.

The work "upload" is used here as minidisc to computer. apologies for mixing up upload and download. This question about the reliability in copying music from minidisc to computer was raised because in someone's else's tips (don't know who it was, but it's on one of the boards somewhere) which the stream from the minidisc player is recorded with Total Recorder and not from Sonicstage's My Library (after it was uploaded) because of possible imperfect upload. Is uploaded sound exactly the same as it was when on the disc ??? or is there some degradation somewhere ???

It's TotalRecorder's fault. As shown on their website faq, if registration isn't done properly or if its shareware, recording will screw up after 64 seconds or 40. Try a previous version instead, like 4.4. get it from http://technet.idnes.cz/detailstahuj.html?cislo=300658 (not the publisher's website). Don't attempt to get from the publisher's website as it will bump all attempts to download previous versions to download 4.5 (latest) instead. Or recording can be split up into lots of less than 64 seconds and joined together later. This way will be very fiddly and requires a lot of quick flipping between Sonicstage and TotalRecorder to get things to line up right. Usually not worth the effort as the other way mentioned above are quicker and easier.

Would flipping the read only flap to read only before uploading avoid the TOC getting screwed up??? Or must the read only flap be on write mode (so Sonicstage can flag the tracks on the disc to block more uploads, etc) ??? or can it write the flags to disc even if the flaps go read only ??? Does the read only flap physically block the write head from reaching the disc or does it tell the player not to write ???