http://www.esdl.co.uk/index.htm i have a Sony MDH-10 Minidisc player/recorder purchased from EDL UK. for those that are not familiar, this company sells (expensive) MD units that can rip/transfer your Minidiscs to your PC (via SCSI cable) at up to 5x rate. This retails for $3,000. I will sell it for the highest offer in 1 week (need cash, getting married). please PM any questions: CJ ------------- The Transfer Editor has been devel-oped by EDL for use by professional broadcast journalists to enable the fast (5x) and lossless transfer of audio tracks from minidisc to PC. A fully recorded minidisc is transferred in less than 15 minutes, just 20% of the time re-quired by a simple audio connection! The ease by which the required audio segment can be identified by the Editor makes the transfer time much faster. The powerful minidisc analysis features have also made the Transfer Editor popular in the fields of forensic audio and minidisc data recovery. The system is capable of reading from faulty or accidentally erased minidiscs, even exploring erased audio regions. Minidisc is a popular format in the field of professional audio. It delivers high quality, is rugged, reliable, offers long battery life, is lightweight, compact and non-volatile. EDL’s Transfer Editor makes minidisc even more attractive by allowing discs and tracks to be labelled, divided, combined, reordered and quickly transferred to PC as individual WAV files for access by the users preferred audio processing software. The user-friendly software which runs on all Windows platforms allows for the transfer of an entire Minidisc, individually selected tracks or even partial sections of tracks by using the integrated waveform editor. With the Transfer Editor it’s fast and easy to label tracks on the minidisc directly from the PC key-board. If the users chooses to leave the tracks unnamed then unique names are generated. Direct conversion into compressed sound formats and sample rate conversion is avail-able to special order. edl.pdf