Breepee2

If you want to preserve tag information when importing: convert to WMA Lossless. Essentially the same as FLAC, but can be used in Sonicstage. Maybe you can even convert your entire library, so that you can put them on your HiMD whenever you want (without converting all the time).

That is strange, it's the official Bittorrent client, so there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Try http://www.bitcomet.com/ . It's a 3rd party torrent-client. It's more versatile.

Although it should be noted that it appears Sony has crippled native MP3 playback. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=10304

http://www.bittorrent.com/

No FLAC on HiMD.

Then I miss the option 'Neither'.

Nope. They don't have the hardware to understand HiMD's. There are no CD's that support 120 minutes, only some, non-red-book ones that indeed support more than 80.

If you just wanted to know how much fits on a disc in LP2, why didn't you look here?

Wish there were more of those. Does it play HiMD? And what do you mean with uncompressed? It's JPEG and average resolution, seems perfect for web use?

If you want to upload to a mac, there are only 2 options: MZ-M10 and MZ-M100 http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=11172

Removable discs and the ability to record: MD One big drive: HDD No one can make that choice for you, but you.

Nope. But that's not the point. Why should I settle for a solution that tampers with the signal for no purpose? I can't see the reason in that (perhaps only because there's little to no choice). I'm very fine with old Atrac SP sound quality. Why I still insist on FLAC? I don't need/want unnecessary conversionsteps. There's no technological need anymore to compromise, so why compromise? Why settle for less? It's perfectly possible (easier even) to not alter the actual data. One bonus with bit-perfect digital signals is of course that you'll always be able to make bit-perfect copies/captures/rescues of sound and music. You can not only use it for playback, but for archiving too. I don't want to be locked into some system (the very reason I advocate FLAC) and having a bitperfect digital line-out is part of that, at least for me. I'll always be able to get my sound out, with no signal degradation whatsoever. You could say I'm a little overly occupied with 'bitperfectness', but hey, why not?

All Soundblaster devices transcode 44.1kHz sources internally to 48kHz, and if you set the digital out to 44.1kHz, they'll transcode it down to 44.1 again. Not bitperfect. Creative Soundblasters (Audigy's included) provides fake 44.1 output, and therefore is not suitable for me. If I we're to settle for frequency transcoding, the easiest way would be to let the software apply a high-quality algorithm to get the 44.1 sources up to 48kHz and use any chip out there with optical out and leave the rest to the digital amplifier.

Probably won't (my sources are either 48kHz or 44.1 (DVD & CD)). But it's nice it's there. Maybe one day I'll fold into DVD-A (SACD is better!) Shipping btw. is a little expensive: ~$32.

There's only one threat here: That the people will realise the RIAA is the threat itself. They're paying too much and all the RIAA does with it is making lives worse.

In a store with some disco light

Thanks, when I searched the other day I didn't find anything on ebay.

Price is a bit too steep for me. I can't understand why not one manufacturer though of such a card. I can't be the only one who just want's a no-nonsense optical out which runs 44.1kHz?

Including kernel streaming, since it all happens on-chip, no matter what. It's part of the AC97 standard to send out only 48kHz. Your C-Media chip may do otherwise, but there's only one way to be sure, and that is to check it out with a component that can display the frequency of the signal. I've BTW confirmed this (because I couldn't believe the stupidity of it) with my Sony 530 MD deck (which displays the incoming frequency). Since this chaintech seems a little difficult to obtain, are there similar cards out there?

Thanks! It's seems to be a slope, 83.6*29.5*77 sounded too clunky

Yet maintaining 2 formats which accomplish essentially the same thing (cheap, small, removable storage) strikes me as odd. I'd imagine making UMD writable isn't so difficult (it's a small DVD in essence). And that's also the only difference between the two (writability). Kurisu, when and how will we know more?

Could you post a picture with a viewpoint from the side, so that I can observe the AA-bump (if there is any)? Thanks!

Is that speculation or do you have inside information?

Is there a way to kiss over the internet? No? OK, just a big virtual hug to you kurisu! It's indeed exactly what I want! Now the other thing, acquiring it. It seems nowhere for sale here in the Netherlands. I can find some American shops, but some don't ship at all, or calculate shipping costs of $50, a bit too expensive for my taste. No ebay sellers either Any ideas how to get this part overhere? A respectable shop which ships to Europe? I don't know too much about American webshops (which are good, which aren't etc.). If anyone can help me with this intercontinental order, please do!

Is there anything known about when/if/how the new Atrac3+ bitrates will be coming to HiMD? Via a new gen, or a firmware update?