SO, to make it perfectly clear for us MAC users who are musicians, composers who want to RECORD LIVE music with a Sony Hi-MD unit.... there is NO WAY to do ANYTHING BUT play the music back through headphones or a stereo... we can't transfer the musical data into our MAC's to burn a CD for someone else to play on a regular old fashioned CD player, right? OR, is the only way to do it in real time with a line out from the MD to the computer. In that case it would probably be analog and I'd have to have some sort of software on my MAC to convert the signal to digital... like an a/d converter. Don't know? This is all such a mess. I run MAC OS 9, by the way. All this great new technology to record with and it looks like I can only use about half of it's capabilities. I had thought that Sharp might have a better more friendly way to transfer files from the MD to the computer for us MAC users but from what I've read on this site, this is not true, right? Thanks. =)