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Cheers ... and what's the best way of getting the good stuff back onto the HiMD? Analogue out from the PC? Or is there something better?

Thanks. Do you have a software recommendation for storing the (analogue) audio on my laptop? ... and how about the best way of putting it back again onto the HiMD player?

I've got a lot of live recordings (radio, live performances, etc) on MD and want to save the best bits to create a (much!) smaller number of HiMDs (lovely new player). Given that I can't upload the old MD recordings to the laptop, what's the best way of doing this with the minimum drop in quality? (I assume some drop in quality is inevitable.) I'm guessing there's no alternative to analogue into the laptop (any tips on maximising quality at this stage?) and then... SonicStage? or analogue out? What methods / software would you recommend? There's a LOT of these recordings so if it's too complicated then I just know it's never going to get done... (In the last always imagined the best method would have to be buying a second MD player so I could record direct one to the other - not that I ever quite got round to that - and by the way no I can't do that now as the original player is dead.) Cheers

Is there any way of telling whether the DVD has a PCM soundtrack? Is there any way of altering the output of the optical out socket on the DVD player? And if I put a CD in the DVD player (which I can) to record it digitally (I haven't got any other equipment with an optical out), would I have the same problem? Thanks

Lovely shiny new NH900. But when I connect it with the optical cable that came with it to the optical out of my DVD player, why do I get the error message NO DIGITAL COPY. The manual is of course useless. Surely the copy protection that stops me re-recording digitally from MD to MD to MD doesn't also apply to DVDs? Perhaps I've got some settings wrong?