Hey guys and gals, I bought a new minidisc recorder two nights ago, the MZ-NHF800 Hi-MD, and am very eager to start recording. My whole goal here is to take the output out of my board (mackie mixing board), plug it into the line in jack on the minidisc, and record our practices/shows. I tried it last night, learned it wasn't as easy as I anticipated, and just had some overall questions that I'm not finding answers for in the manual, and figured you guys could help out tremendously. 1. Is there a general explanation for which format to record in? For you guys that are doing this already, can you provide some pointers? 2. My whole goal is to take my recordings and burn them to CD. Is there another piece of software I need to obtain in order to do this? 3. What is up with the groups? Im not really understanding the purpose of that. I guess in general if anyone is doing this kind of stuff already, some best practices type info would be great. Thanks a lot in advance for any of your help! J