The Low Volta

delivery through EMS to Belgium (from japan) took about 7 days and there was no delay at our (strict) customs... the whole thing could be followed as well through the EMS site BTW my package was an RM-MC40ELK remote...so MD's will be bigger and could be handled differently by customs perhaps

you could be right hpmoon (I must admit I haven't tried this) but I was just wondering why you would want to use this? The restrictions he tried to circumvene were since dropped (this thread is from Dec 2004) and you can now convert your own recordings to wav, rip music into SS without copy protection and even remove the DRM from older rips by converting them to the exact same bitrate of atrac (it won't be transcoded as one member has proven) but you can deselect the 'add DRM' checkbox so sharing your own recordings and even your library (but that would be illegal ) has become possible through easier ways than decribed above (even if they would work) if on the other hand your question doesn't really have a practical 'purpose', but you stumbled upon this thread, tried it and as it didn't work for you, you simply got curious into the program the poster used... just ignore the above.

also take all batteries out of the MD and unplug the powercord... leave it completely without a power source for a couple of minutes .. this completely resets the MD and could possibly help solving your problem

I actually guess it is a combo of too little too late (connected to the DRM woes) and also to the not quite small/easy enough as an 'on the go' player like the shuffle/nano etc. and not enough storage space to serve as a 'do all/carry all' portable player (like the HD-iPods etc) ppl choose either very robust easy players with limited storage or less robust machines that can contain their entire music library...HiMD falls in between also, the one big strenght of HiMD: recording, is of little interest of lots of ppl or is separated from the player/listening functionability so HiMD never stood a chance as a mainstream format if the whole idea of blueray 5gb HiMD had been invented 5 years ago and could be further developed (but it couldn't/can't and not because Sony didn't want to... why wouldn't they do this if possible, just give me one real reason and no conspiracy nutcase rambling please) it could have cought on as a player, but it hasn't...so ... get over it! Please ppl, be glad we do have HiMD as a great recording device and also as one of the few devices to offer gapless playback (which obviously isn't valued by many ppl)... but be aware that the RH1, while it will be the ultimate recorder, will probably be the last HiMD you will ever buy: soon other players will offer gapless playback and/or HDD or beter solid state recorders will grow into reliable and affordable tools to replace HiMD for recording as well... If you are serious about music this evolution shouldn't scare you...as long as recording and playing music as it was intended is possible at a reasonable price...who cares. If you are a Sony fanboy or stuck to a format (MD) just cause you are (or for whatever reason you choose) you should a.) wake up and smell the coffee: HiMD is another format than MD...so you ain't being 'true' as we speak and b.) you don't care about music, but about a technology only intended to make music sound good and for you to be able to record it also in the best possible way and another format able to do this should make you forget about HiMD you might disagree with me...I know lots of you do... but I don't really care, we'll let the future decide: I'll meet up with all of you in ten years time and see who still uses HiMD and who misses it... still, if it is phased out without an alternative on both things I mentioned (gapless playback and recording) I will be the first to protest to Sony for their mistake of abandoning the format but to round things up: HiMD is what it is... a recording format and (almost) the only way to get gapless playback NOW. It will be surpassed and there definitely is NO need for a car system (just use aux-in!) and maybe even a home deck is unnecessary (a pro-deck might still be useful for sectors needing it) just get over the sentimentality and start pushing the big companies towards a decent replacement in stead of using your energy to revive a format destined for oblivion. So I vote for a petition to push Sony into developing the technology they have already developed for their new >$1000 pro recorder (HDD or solid state I can't recall right now) into a consumer/semi-pro product that incorporates all of our recording wishes... think of the future and not only of the past! this might get you further in life PS: do not take this too seriously...I love HiMD right now as it is the only format allowing me to do what I want... but these 'Sony should have done this' or 'why HiMD didn't pick up' threads or any like 'em make my skin crcawl!

yeah... ok, you can blame SS for being too strict (and I know you are only joking) but it's this kind of "SS sucks"-mentality tha's prolly keeping quite some ppl from going with HiMD I guess! so please be obvious when joking and also be fair to what programme's causing the trouble...IMHO SS3.4 does work pretty good

warning! slightly off topic not really a Tivoli desktop radio but I have got a Tivoli that travels with me everywhere I go... just check this post

hi and welcome to MDCF, perhaps if you explain the probelm ppl could actually try to help

pretty shortsighted there stuge... AAC and WMA come in DRM-packages and even MP3 can be DRM'ed... DRM is not connected to a format but to companies trying to keep ppl from using stuff

this actually sounds more like a fault in the tagging system of WinAmp than a problem really caused by SS...perhaps SS just sticks too closely to the correct ID3 structure and crashes when a not so strict application thereof (by WinAmp) is detected

perhaps you were running other programs besides SS... SS likes to have all CPU-power to itself

if it is still under warranty...get it fixed by Sony, it will only get worse and will probably completely fail when the warranty has just dropped

hey rdwhitehill, no problem... I was just trying to avoid the heards of ppl yelling "hey SS3.4 doesn't make my NetMD able to upload...what's wrong?" glad to hear you enjoy MD! perhaps one day you might consider the switch to HiMD (the NH600 is a download only unit so no recording, but it sells @ $60 sometimes and allows you to put much more music on the same discs (but they wouldn't be useable in your old equipment though))

this is exactly what all the trouble with A-lossless is all about: it actually is a lossy file + all that's cut out...together it is lossless, but the lossy part is used for transcoding to other bitrates than the one you specified when ripping you use A-lossless 352 but don't understand A-lossless 256... well the first is A-lossless with a 352 lossy part and the second is A-lossless with a 256kbps lossy part

I believe someone tested this and when reverting to wav it actually does use the total (so it really is lossless in that case) but still this is an extra step so I can use Flac just as well... and I can play flac with foobar2000 while Atrac lossless is limited to ...SS which I will never use as a player 1kyle... atrac lossless @ 256kbps is what someone wishing to use HiSP mainly would choose... it is the same rubbish as atrac lossless @ 352kbps but with a slightly more lossy core

I also do not own a NetMD, but with my NH900 (HiMD) it is possible: - just use the scrollwheel on the device (while playing a track) you can scroll through all groups and enter one (by pressing the 5-way stick) and scroll through tracks and when the selector is on the track you want: pressing the 5-way stick will start playing that track so you can select the next track no matter where on the disc without having to stop playback (of another track) but it isn't really ligning up as in you can 'program on the fly' or you point it to another track and it will automatically play that one once the current one ends: you have to wait till the previous track is done (or you've heard enough and want to move on) then manually 'start' the selected one

... and if you have a NetMD that's not a player only model ('E') or Downloader only ('D') you should be able to make 'real' SP discs in realtime by recording from mic-in or line-in in standard mode (IIRC)

very true eriktous! thank you for correcting me... indeed: realtime it is!

we still haven't checked if it is really full SQ (and not faked) but allofMP3.com DOES offer flac downloads etc. so this is not necessarily true 1kyle! beter make sure you are completely certain (and ready to prove it) before stating such 'truths' IMHO

I haven't checked, but I think it does remember the high sensitivity setting, just as the rec-mode (PCM, HiSP or HiLP,...) but manual rec levels are forgotten each time you 'stop' the recording (so not with 'pause', but as soon as you press 'stop' it's gone and it reverts to AGC... which sucks) about the setting, just check this yourself...you say you have go the NH1...what's keeping you from trying?

- data can be transfered with drag-n-drop (but music files transfered like this can't be played on the recorder) - all playable music files need to go through SS or Simple Burner (which uses SS)

as for now with NetMD your only option is realtime rerecording to PC/mac (search the pinned threads in the live rec section for a howto if needed) once the RH1 is released this will be the only model that will allow such in a easy digital way (through USB)

nice soundtrack, but I'd still prefer it (the sound and the visuals) to strenghten the recording aspect of HiMD even more: say you take a real-life situation where the person sees/hears something interesting like a band performing on the corner of a street, take out his MD, record it (sound still the band but now monitoring through his headphones), stop/save, walk away and playback the recording which sounds sharp and this produces a BIG smile on the persons face, once home he plugs in the USB, creates a CD and shares it with a friend, cue double BIG smile!!

If I have to covert from WMA-lossless to wav each time just to get gapless... I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to switch from Flac... I also have to convert to wav first... BTW: I actually do not build any real big computer based library mainly because of the no-real-lossless-option with SS. I would be converting all the time, so for now I just use SB with my CD's and once we get SS to play nice with Flac I'll think of ripping everything at once... for now I won't I'm slowly thinking of looking for a dedicated player (not necessarily MD) and I will wait what this uses/plays nice with before I really build a PC library

pata... I was also convinced on uing WMA-lossless... but then some other horror srtuck: this damned codec doesn't keep cd's gapless! so fact is we're screwed until Sony lets SS play nice with all the directshow codecs so we can use Flac or Wavepack directly in SS until this is possible... IMHO there is no real lossless option in SS

roba... the NH700 and NH800 are identical except for the radio... there's no indication whasoever that this would work for any other model