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  1. Hi, this sounds like a problem I was having too, after a bit of time I figured out what my problem was, maybe the solution will help you too. I was getting the same messages, intermittently, disc is protected, and looking at the protect slider, it was not protected. sometimes it would not come up with the message and recording was possible, but more times than not, I was getting the protected disc message. It turned out to be my internal gumstick battery, not sure if it is defective or not, I got 2 official sony gumstick batteries,, the higher capacity mw14, and what was happening was, and still does, is the battery would swell slightly during the charging process. The two large rectangular sides of the battery would show a slight bulging along the center, if charged inside the unit, the swelling would go unnoticed, and did for many weeks.... it bulged so much that it required needle nosed pliers to remove it from the MD machine battery compartment. So what was happening inside was the battery was pushing the sides of the battery compartment outwards from the inside, and being just adjacent to the disc sensor switches, this pushing out was enough to cause the switches to be closer to the disc than they should normally be, I know that it would make more sense for this to happen if the switch were moved away from the disc, perhaps overtravel in actuating the switch causes it to go to an incorrect state, anyway, what I do know for sure is that when I put a battery in that would slide into the battery compartment easily, as it should, the problem with the protected disc message was gone. I also found that I could gently press the the bulge out of the sides of the battery by gently squeezing it in a small bench vise, and the battery would again slide easily into the compartment and I no longer would get the protected disc message. Hope this helps...
  2. Hi, had no luck getting ss 3.2 to work, (not recognizing my MD) and I would right now just like to go back to version 2.3 which worked well for me. If anyone has this file saved and could post it, or knows a link to it, it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Pete
  3. Hi all , just wondering if anyone is using their minidisc recorder to get into podcasting? It sounds pretty cool. This might be the next revolution! I just read something on it today. Do a web search for podcasting and check it out! I think minidisc is perfect for this, not only can you listen to podcasts that you download, you can record your own podcast with your minidisc as well!
  4. haha! point well taken aeriyn.... it is interesting to hear... The Beatles did a lot of panning in their studio recordings as well, but it is hard to notice using speakers, but very in-you-face with headphones!! well it's all good, everone's musical taste is different, which is a good thing. Thanks for the replies everyone, I do enjoy reading all the messages!
  5. Here's a point I've been pondering for a while, I'm interested to see what others think on this topic. I know that with binaural recordings, the left channel is meant to be heard ONLY by the left ear, and the right channel to be heard ONLY by the right ear. I think we can all agree on that. That is why binaural recordings sound a bit odd through speakers. When listening through speakers, some of the left channel is also heard by the right ear, and some of the right channel is heard by the left ear. I don't know this for sure, but I'm finding that most music being put out is mixed for use with a speaker systerm. As an example, if a certain instrument is wanted to sound as if it is on the LEFT side of the room, in its stereo image, they pan it left in mastering the recording, even if they put it all the way to the left speaker, it still sounds somewhere in between the speakers because your right ear is hearing some of it. Vice Versa for instruments on the right side of the stereo image, your left ear is going to hear some of that instrument panned to the right speaker. Now when we listen to this same recording with headphones, what sounded like it was over to the left side of the stereo image using speakers....is now BAM....WAY in your LEFT ear completely, and sounds they wanted to the far right in the stereo image with speakers, is totally in your RIGHT EAR! Very un-natural sounding. I am noticing this more and more as I listen with my headphones to music to which I used to listen with speakers. Ok now having set all of that up to illustrate my point... does anyone make a type of electronic "crossover" (for lack of a better description) that would incorporate some of the left channel into the right 'phone, and some of the right channel into the left 'phone? I think that this would give a more true stereo image as the sound engineers had meant it to be heard, but through your headphones. I hope I have gotten my point across with all of this, and I would enjoy reading others thoughts on this. Thanks Pete
  6. After what happened with one of my discs, I have trouble considering a disc to be an "archival medium". Not long ago I was editing a disc in the player, and for no reason apparant to me, I got the "cannot record or play" message on the screen, pressing any key results in the re-formatting of the disc, very bizarre and frustrating, it could have been a bad blank, or probably any other number of reasons, but it has left me with the knowledge of how volatile recordings on the minidisc can be. Luckily I had backed up the important recordings so nothing was lost except some of my confidence in MD as a storage medium. The confidence is slowly coming back, as I continue to have success with uploading recordings, and with simple burner. Still though my advice to everyone with a one-of-a-kind recording on your MD, do an analog backup with a good recording program such as total recorder or cool edit, then try the digital upload. As a side note, went to see "Whitenoise" last weekend, the guy (Ian McNeice) doing the EVP recordings was storing them on minidisc!! I didn't catch the make or model, something to watch for if you go see the movie, which I enjoyed, not very scary, but interesting and entertaining. Happy New Year to all!
  7. Ok, here's the scoop, for those interested: After some extensive test recordings etc etc, I think I have figured out what was happening with the 15K and up being clipped out of "rendered" wav files... I found that it is dependent upon the mode used to record the file you want to render to a wav file, which is good news for all, because I had somehow started using Hi-LP recordings to try out the renderer program, and hopefully no one will be using Hi-LP to make Live recordings, I tested 3 file types, PCM, Hi-SP, and Hi-LP. I recorded these files into Cool Edit, and observed the resulting frequency graph of each, selecting an "ambient room noise" portion of each that should be consistent with each other. I found that the Hi-LP file lost the most , being clipped of frequencies 15,000 cycles and above, (about 30 db worth)....the Hi-SP mode recording lost a tad, about 19,000 and up clipped down( again about 30 db worth) and finally, the PCM file had no noticeable frequencies clipped off. So for what it is worth, those are my findings, I do have photos of the graphs, and I will attempt to upload a few after this post. bye for now,
  8. Both the analog transfer and the digital upload frequency graph look the same, a slightly curved, sloping line,extending up a bit past 20,000 cycles, measured at the same time point in each file. The rendered version of the uploaded file has a huge dip in it just past 15,000 cycles, huge being approx 30 db drop, not additional content to upper frequencies... I guess no one has noticed this, or has this happening with their files. Anyone with cool edit or a wav editor with a frequency graph, check it out, see if your rendered files show this drop off also. Thanks
  9. Chewbacca style!!! I love that haha, here is the scary thing though, I'm almost ashamed to admit it....I personally know more than two people who have never seen Star Wars....NEVER!! But I still keep them as friends, I mean, it IS Christmas time, right? haha, Happy Holidays fellow Minidiskers !!
  10. I was just wondering if anyone else has looked at a spectral graph of a "Hi-MD Rendered" wav file ? The ones I have made all seem to have everything above 15,000 cycles clipped off. Just an observation, maybe I have a wrong setting somewhere. However I uploaded a recording into SS 2.3 ... no problem, then I analog recorded this upload into Cooledit, and the graph looked normal all the way to 20K hz . Then I rendered the uploaded file to a WAV and loaded into cool edit, and that version of the file had the high end (above 15K hz) attenuated from approx -90 db to -120 db (from the same spot in recording, ambient room noise) If I knew how to save and upload a screen shot I'd post it. Anyone else noticed anything like this happening to your rendered WAV files?
  11. Well....it's a Sony Premium blank, but that still doesn't mean that it ISN'T the disc. I guess in the back of my mind I was thinking that it was ok to make the track marks, and then let the TOC do its thing when I was done, that's why I wasn't thinking about occasionally hitting the stop button , and as for the power, I think I had the dry cell holder connected, so I don't think that was a concern either, well let's hope this was the only time that happens, and by the way, that error message is listed in the manual. they list two problems that could cause this message 1) There is no audio data that can be played on the recorder... and 2) The audo data or disc management file has been damaged. The suggested remedy they have listed is to " erase the whole disc or perform the Format function". oh JOY! But I'm with you, I think the blank could be the weak link here. I recall a time when I was a camera repairman working in a photo store, people would bring in thier polaroid cameras because they werent' working, 9 times out of 10 a new film pack (which contains the battery) was all that was needed to get it working again. So maybe , as with the polaroid camera, maybe the blank I was using had a little flaw that got by the quality control people. anyway, thanks for the input, and for a great forum
  12. Hi again, if I recall correctly, when that message came up, I was not connected to the computer, I was just editing in the machine itself, with only the remote and headphones attached. The 80 min. disc I was using was new when I began using i in my new HI-MD machine. Hi MD mode, I had recorded a CD via the optical input from a dvd player, and loaded in approx 40 songs digitally from my computer, all worked well, I had not dropped it , or bumped it. It has not happened since then, I am putting stuff back onto the disc and I'm going to try and get it to happen again, I'll let you know if it does. Once again, I think the only thing out of the ordinary that I doing with it was adding track marks to the 45 minute long microphone recording I had made. I would say perhaps 35 track marks , and I had not stopped to let the TOC write, (didn't think about it) I'll write more later, this is a great place here, I'm glad I found it, bye for now
  13. Hi everyone, my first post! I've had my nh900 since 12-2-04, and it's been great, I used it to make a live recording of my daughters Christmas Choir program at her High School auditorium. I had been recording misc. stuff, experimenting with it since I got it, had a few CD's on it, real-time backups of old home recordings, etc etc, I decided to make a back up copy of the choir recording, "just incase.." you know, I did so, using cool edit, and the analog copy even sounded great...(this is a standard 80 min disc used in the HI-MD format) I was going along, adding track marks, so I could eventually upload only the music pieces, this was going well when all of a sudden the message came up...CANNOT RECORD OR PLAY.... I tried everything I could to get that disc back into normal mode, but it would not. I think it showed another screen immediately afterwards that said ... FILE UPLOAD? PRESS ENTER=YES STOP=NO..... well I was kind of freaking out at this point, I think I pressed the stop button, (I was in the denial stage I guess) hoping it would go away and return to normal, but...it went into a formatting routine it seems, and left me with a nice new blank disc So just a report of a little glitch that happened to me, luckily there was nothing on the disc that wasn't in my computer already, and thank goodness I'd made the copy of the Xmas program, which I later edited with cool edit and turned into a CD, so there was no big loss other than a loss of confidence in my minidisc....I am thinking that maybe it had something to do with all the track marks I had been making, and not pressing stop to let it write to the TOC....??...anyway, I haven't had any problems with SS 2.2 but I'm still a bit hesitant to upload anything of importance, my advice to all is, after making a live recording, make a back-up anyway you like, just make one, before any other editing or uploading or whatever... Has anyone else had this error message yet?
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