KrazyIvan

You might have discovered the music industries quest to get ever closer to zero dB. A lot of newer CD's are recorded so close to 0dB that this distortion occurs. The thing is that you should hear the distortion while listening to your CD's too. If it is not present in the CD's then I would say it is a hardware problem or a problem during transfers. Are you doing other things while you are ripping CD's? What are the specs on your computer?

I have heard horror stories about charging the batteries with the unit (stuck batteries, oozing chemicals inside units and the like). I don't know if they are true but I don't want to risk it. I personally use a seperate charger (charges two gumsticks at a time) for the batteries on my R900 and Sharp MD-MT170.

Yes there is a limit. I do not remember the amount of characters but it is something like 85000 characters for Hi-MD and 1000 for NetMD/MD. I think I am close at the amounts. It should say in your manual.

Let's see, just recently I purchased: Matisyahu : Live at Stubbs Mortal : Nu-En-Jin Global Wave System : Life Equals Death The Echoing Green : Supernova Aleixa : Disfigured Aleixa : Honey Lake

My first attempt at labeling MD's:

How about this? http://www.minidisco.com/blank-minidiscs-bulk-md.html

My motto: Record smarter, not harder.

But why? When you could record straight to the PC using an analog cable and the line-in on your sound card. I seriously doublt you would be able to tell the difference.

Agree. I tend to see it most often with an audio card driver corruption.

I like that!

I think that is what I said a few posts up.

In that case I would see digital coax as being more suseptible to EM since it is copper/metal cable. Optical is fiber, so impervious to EMI. This would leave the recorder and player doing all the EMI reception. In that case it would not matter what you are using to record. Whatever the case, I use coax and optical on a regular basis, just different situations. I don't have complaints on either.

According to their own forum administrator it cannot be done: http://goldwave.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?t=603&highlight=oma So what gives?

Try disconnecting the 600D, starting sonic stage first then reconecting the 600D. The other thing would be your chipset drivers. I would make sure you have the latest. AMD chipsets can act a little strange with USB devices. I know first hand.

Here is mine:

Your recorder may be gasping its last breaths. Try cleaning the optical/record head with a cotton swab and a small amount of denatured alcohol as a last resort.

What about skinning software? Are you running any? This can interfere with SS & SB.

You cannot transfer via USB on the N510. You will be limited to realtime recording via the line in on your laptop and the headphone out on the N510. EDIT: For specific instructions refer to this thread: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070

Never mind that. I should be able to copy whatever I want as long as I am not distributing the music and I have the original CD.

Maybe I should not get rid of my current rig. It does everything I want it to. Just hope the day spare parts are not available will never come.

Hmmm, I cannot put the volume past 11/30 with my CMOY. Anything more and it becomes way too loud. Everybody's ears are different so maybe I am just sensitive.

Possibly a firewall keeping CDDB from being accessed?

Glad I use AMD!

Somehow I meant to say that. Ugh, what was I thinking. This is assuming you are using Hi-MD, though. I don't like to assume things, which is what I did in my original post. I assumed you were talking about NetMD recordings.

You can only open Audacity project files, wav, AIFF, AU, MP3, and Ogg vorbis audio files. You cannot import from Sonic Stage unless you have the original mp3 or wav file( or other supported format). Make sure you know where you saved the files and navigate to them using the import audio menu. You can record realtime into Audacity using a cable plugged into the headphone or line out on your MD and the other end into your computer sound card line in. Then setting Audacity to record from your computer line in.