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Does the US version of the RH10 only come in black?

Sweet! What recording level (bit rate) do you use?

Thanks for the info a440, what you said is helpful. Although I had one of the first MD players way back, I'm a newbie to most of this stuff. Sorry, what I meant to ask is can you record the DRM'd music in realtime if you play it through the sound card optical out? In other words could you bypass the DRM by using the optical out of the PC? From my understanding of what you said, there is negligible difference between the quality of the track if you take off the DRM wrapper and record the resulting wav in realtime to your MD or you transfer the resulting wav (or converted mp3/wma) through SonicStage. Thanks again.

I'm considering getting one of the new Hi-MD players and i had a few questions about recording digitaly. First, can you copy secured music (eg. secured wma from napster) through the digital out on a soundcard directly into a md recorder? I'm assuming this is not possible. Therefore, what would be the best way to record the music and get the best quality recording? I 've seen info on recording the songs to wav using winamp and a plugin or total sound recorder. Would you get better quality onto the MD by recording the resulting wav through optical out directly to the MD or by encoding the wav into mp3 or atrac and transfer to the MD using the USB and the sony software? Is there alternatives that could be used? Finally a more general question about recording through digital out. If you have mp3 or wma recorded at 128 kbs, would it make more sense to record using the Hi-SP (256kbs?) setting or the Hi-LP (64kbs?)? Is it worth it to sacrifice the extra space without actually getting higher quality audio? Would the Hi-LP sound significantly worse than the orginal sound file? Thanks for any help that someone can provide...