mrsean

thanks for that url, that was the way i thought i'd end up doing if nothing else worked.

no, they weren't done in hi-md mode. sorry about that. i have a mzn-510 and a mds je-440 deck. so it looks like i may have to do a lot of recording onto cd's. will recording onto hard disk, then re-recording onto md (Lp4 mode) deteriorate the quality to a great degree?

hi all! this question is in a couple of parts so i'll try and be as brief as possible, and write it in such a way that may get me the answers quickly. the bottom line is this; i've got about 60-70 md's that have stuff i've recorded off the radio (sound quality is fine for headphones, which are Sony MDR-CD170; Digital Reference; real nice cans). what i want to do is wipe the stuff i don't want, & keep the rest. this will result in having lots of discs that have bits and blobs of free space. what i'd like to do is be able to transfer one way or another tracks from 1 md to another with the end result being that i have a lot more blank md's. an example would be i have 3 md's. they have 60 mins recorded on each (i record in LP4 mode). i want to wipe a few mins off each one but THEN have them transferred onto the ONE disc, thus leaving 2 blanks. the other thing is that i'd rather keep the files as they are as opposed to re-recording them and possibly degrading the quality any further. much like cutting and pasting in computer terms. 1. will sonic stage do this? if so how? if not, what will? 2. before i even get that far, i've d/loaded the sonicstage installer (the 25mb version) and as it installs it throws up "you don't have such and such program" and stops. fair enough. i've so far installed windows media player 7 and windows media player 9 codec but it looks as though it's getting about 2/3-70% of the way and it asks for another thing to d/load. is the only way to get it to install properly is to install, wait for it to say "get this program" get it and go through again & again until it's done? or does some wise person know what order it looks for the programs it needs, so i can get that list, d/load and install them all at once and then it'll work? i'm running win 98. sorry for the thesis, and thanks all for any help you provide. mrsean.

hi all you ppl get to see my first post! (yay 4 me!!!) firstly what a great resource you ppl have here, big cheers for all of those kind souls imparting their knowledge to the rest of us. have been reading your posts on the future (?) of hi-md in australia, but i just want to know if Sony ever released a Hi-md deck? i've got a champion (IMHO) MDS-JE440 deck (yes i know there better one's than that, but i didn't complain at the $270 price tag 3 yrs ago), and at some stage in the future i'd like to go Hi-md. the main use for my md is recording off radio (sean's a scab i know! ) and when i get around to it, recording vinyl onto md. so, did sony ever release hi md decks? thanks all and keep preaching the good word of Mini Discs!