djtodd

Took nearly a month, but the refund has been received.

FWIW, MDC finally did respond to me a week later, and offered a refund without me having to send back the battery. Unfortunately, they haven't actually applied the refund and are back to being unresponsive. Sadly, at this point, they've lost me as a customer.

Could very well be. Another reason/rumour to think twice before ordering from them.

It would appear that Minidisc-Canada.com is a wee bit unresponsive. To either emails or voice mails. They're certainly not answering thier phones. I'm trying to return a defective/counterfeit battery for my RH-10 and I just plain can't get a hold of them. Sorry guys, this one is going to have to be disputed with my CC company. Dealt with them for years, this is the first time they've gone AWOL like this. (If there is a more appropriate sub-forum this should be in feel free to move it there.)

Yeah, the unit is fine thankfully. There's no circuit board above or below the battery, so since it didn't leak and there was no board to flex, everything turned out OK. I'm sending the duff battery back for a refund, and I ordered a GP gumstick online. I'm going under the assumption that the entire stock of 14's this place has are fakes, so I'm not exchanging it. You learn something new every day. Like for one, sony stores and sonystyle (in Canada) don't carry gumstick batteries!

Yeah, it expanded like a mofo. I maybe shoulda guessed as it didn't look *exactly* like the one it replaced. Luckily I have the tools here at work and service manuals online so I was able to get it out without messing anything up. Here's a couple of terrible cameraphone pix: Note the nice oblong shape.

Possible, but unlikely. Bought it from minidisc-canada.com not some random store.

My poor MZ-RH10. The battery that came with it back in 2005 finally gave up the ghost, and I ordered a new Sony 14WM replacement. The damn battery has exploded, bulging the entire casing and making the battery un-removable. Emailed the retailer and Sony to see about warranty repairs. I know it's long out of warranty, but I'm hoping that the exploding sony part kinda nullifies that. Anyone else had similar experiences?

Gah. You know, I upload my radio shows to MD as backups. It'd be nice if Sony finally got over it and allowed us to use our MDs the way they should be used. Portable media. Not locked down DRM devices. I want to upload my show (sure, transcode it from WAV to ATRAC) and be able to download it again and convert it back to WAV. I'd like to be able to do this with 8 years of my recordings from SP to NetMD to HiMD. From my perspective there's nothing here. I'll stick with my MZ-RH10.

Yeah, I've been keeping them as MP3s as well, and transferring them is actually my last resort. Over the summer I transferred them all back manually and boy that was a pain.

Alright. Last dumb question. So does this mean that if I have .wav files that I have transferred/converted to HiMD via SS, I can transfer these files back to the PC? I do a radio show, and the end result is a big wav file on my PC. I then transfer the wav file to HiMD for safe keeping, and I'm wondering if I can now transfer them back. I'm assuming that all the old discs that I have in SP and NetMD can't be transferred still.

Yeah, not possible and quite annoying. I'd like to leave mine on track remaining and track properties, but alas...

I'm just leaving it in it's cloth bag. This may be the first MD unit where I actually use the remote.

Oh man, this is one sweet unit. Maybe it's just the new toy feel, but I still think it sounds better than my "old" NH-700.

The day they make me look like a pikey for having MD is the day I buy an iPod! Seriously though, the above changes would make all the difference in the world.

Yeah, problem is I use MD as my archival storage. I transfer the .WAV from my PC to Hi-MD via SS. Can't transfer back even once. I guess when it comes time to get the 20 or so shows in Hi-MD back onto my PC (Thank god I decided to start making MP3 copies as well back in February) I'll just have to use Adobe Audition and record the whole disc as one file then make my own track marks so to speak.

Yeah. My situation is this. I've done a net radio show since 1998, and I have about 45 MDs with the shows from 2001 and on. Most are MDLP recordings made with my old R900, some were transferred via Sonicstage on my N505, and since the end of 2004 I've been transferring them via my NH800. Now I've finally decided that I should keep high quality MP3 backups as well as my MD backups, and I'm having to transfer the audio back to the PC. I'm working my way backwards, and when I hit the oldest ones I'll try transferring directly via Sonic Stage as they were recorded in true analogue. The newest recordings were done on the NH800 and the discs are formatted Hi-MD. It'd be nice to have a way to transfer the audio back to my PC without having to resort to un-automated recording with Adobe Audition. But there's only 20 or so 45 minute tracks to do anyhow. I'd love to transfer them via Sonicstage, but Sony's DRM gets in the way. Win NMD has been a godsend. It may be 1:1 transfer, but at least I don't have to monitor it, and I can still use my PC while it's working. I've gotten over 100 45 minute shows transferred in the last week. The software itself needs a buit of polishing though. When completing a track, I find it takes quite a while to "close" it and move on to the next. This may be because each of my shows is recorded as a single 45 minute track. It could also use a bit of idiot proofing so that you can't over write a file without getting prompted or some such.

I'm transferring audio from my MZ-NH700, and Win NMD seems to work fine, if a bit slow when it closes the file. However, when I insert a Hi-MD disc, Win NMD suddenly fails to see the MD player anymore. I have to "eject" the notification area, and then physically disconnect the MD player. I can't seem to get it to work with Hi-MD at all. Has anyone had any success with this? Or is there a better way of transferring from MD to PC for Hi-MD?