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Azureal

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  1. The maximum current sourced from a USB 2.0 bus powered port is 500mA and that is only if the unit is enumerated to ask for that much current, the default is only 100mA which may be your issue, since there is no battery, the device is not recognized and cannot enumerate properly to request the additional power.

    Your best bet is to use a wall power adapter which provides a full Amp and you will be able to run it, if it is working. Do you have any USB power adapters, like for and iPhone, or other USB phone, iPad, Kindle or other device? I have nearly a dozen such adapters around my house leaching power at any given time :-)

    Check this link for details: USB Spec

  2. There's a perfectly nice ATRAC->MP3 converter that Sony gives away.

    http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?upd_id=2971

    Works pretty good, and keeps all your metadata.

    Thanks Stephen!

    I had forgotten about this great tool. I downloaded it last night and did a conversion of my ATRAC library. I still personally prefer the sound of ATRAC but I have been playing with streaming music from my Kindle via Bluetooth to my HiFi, just for fun.

  3. I picked up a couple of NiMH gumsticks on eBay with the label "PowerStream", I don't see any for sale currently by the same seller but they seem to work great, hold a charge and run for nearly a week of 2 - 3 hours of use per day.

    This seller was in the US but I am sure the batteries are made in China. Both I bought have been charging and discharging for 6 months or so without issue.

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  4. I know SonicStage stores it's library details in an mdb Access database file. I don't know if it's locked or not, meaning it may not be possible to open it at will from outside of the application itself, if it is possible, one could open it with Access or any small application which was developed to open, read and query the database file.

    I'll have a closer look at this later. It is possible someone has already done this and there may already be a tool out there for this purpose but if there is not, I need a good winter project! :-)

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  5. That is funny, it looks like a huge dent in the top! You can see from the the other pictures that as you say the camera obviously has a problem. I still would not consider it to be in "good clean condition" either!

  6. If I am not mistaken, and Stephen can certainly correct me if necessary, anything recorded in real-time via microphone input, line input or optical input onto any disk in any format can be uploaded to the PC using the RH1.

    If the disk was created using NetMD you can only get it onto the PC using realtime playback and recording via optical or line level playback.

    With respect to the platform to use for transfer, I would personally suggest either Windows XP or Windows 7 with the 4.3 version of SonicStage located in the download section of the forums here.

  7. That's interesting philippeb, I never realized there were two different densities designed for the MD Data storage scheme. I wonder, how long did the Data2 format predate the HiMD 1GB technology disks?

    I never use HiMD disks any longer, I never had a problem but my use of them was limited because I really liked the sound of realtim SP recording over HiSP.

    I will occasionally format a standard MD as HiMD and store three hours or so of music at HiSP.

  8. Very cool, thanks for the feedback. I'll have a look around to see what sort of prices I can find. It looks like a cool tool. I mentioned sometime back that I use the Sony Vegas Studio software for doing Non-Linear Editing of video and for making DVDs from video recordings.

    I could be wrong but I believe the division of Sony that writes the Vegas tools is also the same division who write the Sonic Forge tools as well. They produce a very high quality product. It is a group of developers in Wisconsin or someplace in NA who I am sure were purchased by Sony years ago to allow them to jump into the market quickly.

    Thanks again Stephen!

  9. Hey Stephen,

    I was interested in getting your thoughts on a suitable version of Sonic Forge for editing and manipulating sound files, specifically ATRAC files.

    I see there are many revisions and I don't intend to shell out 400 USD for the Pro version for a tool I really only want to use to play around.

    What are your thoughts on the less expensive Studio version?

  10. I have had this issue before as well, there is a limitation on the number of characters that can be stored as the metadata on a standard MD as well as HiMD. For a standard MD it is surprisingly low and can easily be exceeded for a bunch of tracks in LP4. For HiMD Sony increased the limitation with a completely new mechanism in software to store the track information.

  11. The browser shows that my Sony JA-20ES dates to 5/1998 and it has a Type-R ATRAC.DSP, this was confirmed by opening the unit and DSP chip. I wonder if OEMs used Sony chips to implement the ATRAC compression/decompression, you could open it up and have a look. If you could find the DSP chip it may be easier to determine the version of ATRAC in the unit.

  12. I have Windows 7, Sonic Stage & RH1 with no issues. Didn't do anything special. Just downloaded the latest version and worked first time.

    I have quite a few J-POP discs. Send me a PM if you are after anything in particular.

    Cheers Z

    Being recognized as a Windows compliant Mass Storage Device, I think any HiMD units set to HiMD mode typically work without any tweaking of drivers. The first time you pop a standard MD into the unit and close the lid it will switch to NetMD mode and Windows will no longer recognize it. You will have to install the NetMD drivers from the package in downloads prepared by sfbp.

    If you never use MD mode, you don't need the NetMD driver.

  13. I am about 20 miles from I-70 but I'm even further East than you Azureal, I'm near Pittsburgh. Nice lot for sale also.

    I remember noticing you were right up the road a while back, Pittsburgh is a very cool city, I have been there several times!

    I recommend you sell all of these on ebay separately. It's very easy to search complete sold listings. Just enter the name of the minidisc unit in the search field, then after the results are displayed, over on the left side you will see a box that says "Sold Listings." That will display what that item has sold for in the past. But remember, sold prices depend on the condition of the item, any accessories included, and whether or not you do international shipping. I bought an MZ-RH910 on Craigslist for less than $25 with a few accessories and Hi-MD discs. I sold it them on ebay for more than $100 plus shipping.

    I agree with you Chris, this will be the best way to make the most of the lot you have to sell.

    afaik n NH600 won´t ever get anywhere up to 150 bucks. A realistic price is 1/3 of that. RH10´s sell for that but no way for an entry level hi-md ;)

    Selling them seperateld is the best way .to earn money.

    I think you are right, although this is the far less common NH600 versus the NH600D. The NH600 has Line and Optical inputs as well as the remote jack, DC input with charging circuit. 95% of the 600s on eBay are the NH600D cheaper model.

  14. I think $200 for the lot is a pretty fair price although Craigslist will rarely get you the best price in my opinion, people are too cheap and want you to give it away. Most people seeing this lot will not even know what they are looking at let alone place a value of $200 on it.

    The HiMD 600 unit is the most valuable and could bring $150 in a fair market auction on eBay. All of the other units would likely fetch between $25 and $50 each. They are all very common mid-range units.

    I live about 10 miles from I-70 myself! if you were not 600 miles west, I would swing by with $150 cash and try to pick up the lot! ;-)

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