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It's nice, but I'd prefer to be able to read/write the author and track title information on the unit instead of only on the remote. IMHO this is far more important than various ways of looking at levels in the different display modes. Hopefully Sony will add the Track name display mode to the prototype.

If Sony would make the HiMD rack backward compatible with uploading old multitrack MD-DATA files to pc, I would buy it.

Good move from Sony! I am happy enough now, and think I can probably decide to jump into the HiMD world too with this one. So a question comes to my mind: and I would like to have some genre of kind answer from someone working in Sony. Why not add the MD-DATA disc reading logic to catch the other half of legacy users too? There are LOTS of musicians out there using multitrack MD-DATA units (like Sony's MDM-X4 or 8 tracks Yamaha MD-8) and disks, and wishing their machines had a digital output. So the question came out naturally when I read this unit's announcement: why enabling MD Audio disc upload via USB, and why not add the MD-DATA tracks uploading too? That shouldn't be too difficult or costly! The disk has obviously the same form factor and so it should be only a matter of software (driver) logic. Logic that Sony has already written and ready, of course! So, what's the problem? I really hope someone from Sony or someone that's related can kindly answer this here and if they can't do it they can explain the technical or commercial issues that are blocking them from releasing this feature. I believe they will sell much more of the new units (of course to the forementioned musicians), if they do it. Sony listen! You ARE the best, you can become more popular if you don't ever consider dead the cool ideas you've had before, but just consider them still alive. Please, don't make the MD-DATA users feel like a kind abandoned zombies in this digital world (by the way you are still producing those MD-DATA disks, aren't you?) if you can make this resurrection by a really simple feature adding. That way you'll see that you didn't do any mistake in producing it in the past, isn't it true? You didn't mistake! MD-Data recorded music and sounds will still live, and forever at max quality! And, oh yes, like someone else said I also wished there was a MZ-RH1 colored in blue too.

Sony has to understand that if it makes next HiMD units backward compatible with old MD-DATA format (maybe by only reading these old discs?) too they will sell lots more of the new units. Lots of musicians are still using MD-DATA multitracks, like the Yamaha MD-8 or the Sony themselves, and transferring their recorded tracks to pc through digital (and convert them to wav without the lossy passage analog-digital) would make them very happy today. I think putting MD-DATA TOC reading would not be a difficult issue. So why not, Sony? Or new HiMD multitrack units supporting both formats? Oh, and what about a future Blue-ray HiMD?

Hello, please someone tells Sony or some "driver guru" to make a HiMD device compatible with old MDdata format (written with a multitrack recorder), I *need* to recover the files written on lots of them! Or someone can tell me how can achieve this, I am a programmer, so that I can manage to read the files on the disks once I have bought a HiMD device... I mean to recover (and backup/restore) the track DATA on them, not just the ATRAC music...got it? Thanks...any opinion or suggestion will be welcome.

- the ability to read MD-Data old disk format and read+transfer the multitrack recorder files on it to pc... - an infrared or (better) bluetooth serial port for file transfer - an "overdub" mode, i.e. kind of multitrack recording 1st recording: one minute of music 2nd recording over the 1st: vocals the unit can mix them, or you can listen/edit/delete the single track

That's where I wanted to go. What did you find on the disc recorded by the multitrack reading it the mdh-10? (I own one but I guess it needs repairing..) Were there some kind of list of files on the disc? Did you manage to DIGITALLY backup the tracks this way copying the files, if possible, from mdh-10 to pc (and restoring back when need to work on a song)? (no matter files can't be converted to audible sound file on the pc, I mean) I have a Yamaha MD-8 multitrack, and before asking this question in relation to hi-md devices I was trying to figure out if MD-data discs recorded with it were backuppable on my pc's harddisk using the mdh-10.

Hello, I've read that Hi-MD devices can store - retrieve data files from a disk to the PC. I was wondering what happens if I put an old MD-DATA disk that I recorded with a multitrack (Yamaha MD-8). Would be nice if I could backup on the pc the tracks I recorded as files (without caring to decode the atrac audio data). Anyone tried this or know if there's a chance of compatibility between the device and the MD-Data disk format (at least to read it)? Thanks :grin: