DaveinJapan

Thanks for that, atrain. bland, great info. thanks a lot! looks like you have the same player, cool! ***Your computer may have an optical in but your md player doesn't have an optical out*** Actually, believe it or not, my friend DOES have a player with an optical out. It was one of the first MD players on the market (before all the rules). Cool huh? Heavy as hell though. Anyway, the Hi-MD's DO have an optical out? I thought you could only upload analog, or something like that. Nice town you live in, by the way. I like hangin out in Yokohama (pretty far from where I live though, I'm in Urayasu).

Very cool info, RB, thanks so much!! I'm glad you pointed out that info about battery life, that's a big factor for me (and even with my old MD player, I was impressed with how long I could use it between charges as I often take long trips and use the MD player constantly). In fact, that might just have made up my mind in favor of the player I have now. :cool: Thanks again.

Hi all. Cool forum. Wish I'd checked it out BEFORE I bought my player today (I probably would've got the Hi-MD instead, but anyway). Bought a Sony, MZ-N920 (good price too, around 250 bucks or so). My first NET md, so I'm a newbie. Sorry if these questions are old, or dumb. First of all, I tried downloading at connect.com, and got a message that it was only for people in the U.S. Any suggestions? (maybe from U.K. or Canada people? cause I don't want to bother with a site in Japanese) Second, I assume that the only way to download through USB is by first making CD's out of my wave files. Is this the case? Is there any way that I can download one wave file at a time, without bothering with a CD? Third, I have a soundblaster soundcard BUT no optical line-in on it. However, there's an optical-in in the front of the computer. I tried plugging the player into the computer via optical-in (for digital uploading), but the player read "no signal". What am I doing wrong? Finally, there's a chance that I could pass off this player and go back and get a Hi-MD. It would cost me a couple hundred bucks more though. I'm pretty okay with uploading in real time (ESPECIALLY if I can go digital, the Hi-MD uploads only analog recordings right?), is there any other serious reason for me to go Hi-MD, or should I stick with what I bought? Is the recording quality remarkably better or something? Thanks in advance! :cool: