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What! No discussion? Surley this has to have some impact for Sony's line of MD/Network Walkman products. Not to mention "mora", the Japanese version of Connect. According to the latest news reports, iTMS Japan has become Japan's #1 online music store, selling 1 million songs since it opened last Thursday. Both the top-selling single and top-selling album on iTMS Japan are by Japanese artists.

(This should really go in the news section) More news regarding the competition for Japanese market share between Sony and Apple. The article is from Macworld UK

The MZ-N700 and 900 are 1st generation NetMD units while the 710 and 910 are 2nd gen.

News source: AFP So... How would YOU name it?

Exact Audio Copy may work, if you ask it to manually detect the CD's TOC but it also depends on your hardware - some CD readers/writers will be able to recognise the scrambled audio portion of your disc, others will only be able to read the data section. If you have access to a whole bunch of CD/DVD drives, try out your disc in various drives until you find one that works. Also, a CD burning program such as Nero may also help you distinguish between the audio and data sectors on the disc.

The MDS-PC3 will not function with SonicStage as your unit is not NetMD/Hi-MD/OpenMG compliant by any means. I'm afraid you have to stick with the software & drivers supplied with your unit (M-Crew).

I can't speak for HiMD, but on NetMD, recording using SonicStage is noticably quieter than real-time recording. Try recording in real-time (if you're not doinf so to begin with). If necessary, adjust the gain/record volume levels. Be careful not to go over the 0db limit, otherwise you'll end up with clipping/digital distortion.

IIRC, Soundforge is NetMD (and HiMD?) compatible, so you can dowload your finished work to MD.

It appears that these units still retain PC compatibility - they are shipped with SonicStage.

I have an N510 I've been meaning to get rid of for ages - I've just been lazy and haven't gotten around to posting info yet. I'm in australia tho, which might make things tricky...

That is because there is a DirectShow filter for OMG/OMA files. You can even playback OMG/OMA files in Windows Media Player. The playback kinda sucks tho, you don't get gapless. And you still need SS installed on your PC to get it to work in the first place.

Using WinNMD with HiMD would just defeat the point of HiMD. WinNMD was designed to help facilitate the ANALOGUE transfer of music from NetMD to PC. With HiMD, you can do digital transfers via the USB of your music using SonicStage. No need to use WinNMD.

I'm not sure, but it would appear those settings apply to MZ-R models, and not the NetMD MZ-N models. On the N510, if you set register 63 to 0 , and then power down your unit, the options in registers 61 and 62 revert to their default values - i'm not sure whether this applies to the rest of the unit but you could give that a go. This link has some info on N510 hacking: http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~bertrik/netmd/mdhack.html

MDR-E808SP/LP, I think. SP is for the short cord with straigt plug, the LP suffix is for the long cord with L-shaped plug.

Just record your DVD to minidisc the same as you would any other source. Plug the audio ouput of your dvd player (optical or analogue) into the line in of your MD recorder, and hit the record button on your MD.

Sadly, it's the price we pay for living in a corporatist society. Politics will always be subserviant to industry - who will provide campaign funds to political parties otherwise?

The CMT-M333NT is a NetMD Bookshelf Unit. It also functions as a USB audio device, so you can stream audio from your PC to the unit. Unfortunatley, you can't record from PC (USB) to MD, however it does have an optical input.

Perhaps you should try a unit with a MIC in, instead of using the LINE in. Either that, or trying setting the record levels on your unit to maximum.

What you hear will also depend on the equipment you have. High quality 'phones tend to be more revealing when it comes to compressed audio, while you won't be able to tell a difference with cheap phones (ie. the ones the come shipped with your HiMD unit).

Surprising that it doesn't do ATRAC3/plus. You'd think Sony would be all about promoting their own format. Is that an old-style 11EL remote I see?

SonicStage allows you to use the unit as a NetMD - in this respect the unit is similar to a NetMD portable. Max 32x PC to MD transfers in LP4. M-Crew allows you to control nearly all of the units functions from the PC - a boon for doing SF Edits, setting the record timer, doing MD dubs, setting program play, etc. The unit also functions as a USB audio device.

Now that's thinking! But are you in fact a qualified doctor?

MDLP came along before NetMD, and yet MDLP tracks can be tagged with DRM? It doesn't make sense. Sony could have easily ported the ATRAC-SP encoder to PC software, just like they did with ATRAC3. Anyway, it's all hypothetical now.

A "HiMD" version is out already - the CMT-AH10. In any case, I can vouch for the 333NT and say it's an excellent unit. Provides all the advanced editing features you would expect from a deck, and stylish too! The 4x CD->MD dubs are a boon, but you can also record in real-time to get the benifits of Type-R encoding. It's a snap to record from casette/radio to MD as well. Sound quality is good - it's certainly more than powerful enough for everyday listening - bass is clear and not too overpowering. If anything, the unit is a little dependent on the remote and PC software for functionality but that is only a minor problem. When you get your unit, install the PC-Link Drivers, M-Crew, and the NetMD drivers for the unit from the supplied CD. Then, install SonicStage 3.1 from the Net, rather than version 1.5 which it ships with on the disc.

I think the 373NT is exactly the same as the 333NT, only the LCD display on the 373 is in orange.