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I think a number of programs will - I think Nero and the very old Feurio will suck in cd names and make a label you can print out.

Ebay? and post across USA?

I recorded in LP2 the last night of the proms from BBC radio 3 DAB last night. I havent heard it better from the Royal Albert Hall London which can sound mushy and vague. Also DAB is not the last word in fidelity. Any way the sound was very good clear and vibrant. I am at the moment listening to the recording first thru the 940 build in dac then my Audiolab 8200cdq dac preamp. Both are were/are very pleasing to listen to but the Audiolab is a significant step up from the internal Sony dac. Any one wanting to upgrade their minidisc should consider using a good external dac and you will be surprised how good minidisc can be even at LP2. Handles complicated music with ease, no perceived artifacts that I noticed.

I think the 4 filters I am referring to only work on the output? if you use the analogue output, is to do with the dac digital to analogue conversion and is inescapable as its part of the technology as digital has artifacts not part of the music? I bet minidisc uses a circuit as it is old hardware, the Audiolab 8200 cdq does it in software I read, as I bet all modern devices do. So the filtering you are referring to is maybe due to the atrac compression system? and not that due to the button on the 940 front.

you mean you use the standard filter?

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you should say where you are in the world?

have a look in WHSMith or Maplins? or look on Ebay - this I found quickly http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Address-Labels-White-A4-Sheets-Sticky-Self-Adhesive-for-Inkjet-or-Laser-Printer-/191201032798?var=&hash=item2c84783a5e:m:mjtNPA7UGsdZ-UFtQVqDl9A use menu to see 50 x 36 mm free post or even click and collect from Argos? 10 sheets for £1.60 this the best fit I could find largest minidisc labels are 52mm x 36mm ( for eg Sony md )?

A question for those with Sony? minidisc decks. I have never really bothered with playing around with filters until just a few hurs ago, listening to a recording if a life performance from radio I made a long time ago, comparing my ( superior ) Audiolab 8200cdq dac with the Sony built in one, trying to get them sound the best and the same. Seems to me that filter 1 ( on JB940 ) comes closest. So what do other people here use, if any choice at all?

you probably dont know of the Radio Downloader? it was a great little free program that would suck down many shows on radio as mp3 automatically in no time at all, no need to do realtime - before that, in days gone by, I used to use a timer and record them live, that was before radio downloader, took ages.I personally not prepared to go back to those ancient days just becuae the BBC got peeved that there was a better soln to their crappy iPlayer - what riled me they had the audacity in presenting their new iplayer service to the world that they said they had considered all the possibilities and this was the best for the consumer lol big joke, a start of my hatred for the BBC and glad the tories are clipping their wings. https://nerdoftheherd.com/news/2013/06/26/radio-downloader-and-bbc-radio/ https://nerdoftheherd.com/tools/radiodld/ what is left is a rather denuded program

well Rigsby probably dont have a MP3 player only a minidisc.matter of use what he has? The useful Radio Downloader used to download ( before the BBC told them to desist after more years than I can remember, didnt want the competition to their new inferior iPlayer sysytem ) BBC radio shows in Mp3 so no option but to turn into atrac should I for instance want to put on my portables. Matter of what you have to play with? not a matter of what makes sense.

Rigsby clearly dont want to spend any more money on what is a dead medium. sensible.

how do you get into the error display to show time used?

I ve just had a look at my manual - the auto ( pause ) in the setup is normally off and not what you want at all. it is a pause to allow you to find the next track to be recorded ie manually. What you want is already default as I explained - T.Mark automatic track marking and LS(T) the trigger level to detect when to make a new track. There is another settting called smart ( S.Space ) that will delete or cut off excess slience on tracks - that is also by default on and will clean up after a folder of tracks has been recorded and stop the deck. so in my opinion you dont need to adjust the deck at all unless these settings have been changed , just make sure the playlist will add the delays. . so forget the auto pause, it is for when you want to make recordings manually and want to select the tracks one by one and dont want the md just continuing to record while you fumble around - it is equvalent to you pressing the pause button on the deck. I expect it detects silence to pause the deck - portables have this and can be used when you want to record say a debate/conversation etc with a mic, that has natural pauses when people stop talking and you dont want to record a lot of nothing wasting md space - I have used that to record interviews. I have never used auto pause on a deck so dont know what will happen - the deck might ask for manual input to continue after each track, One difference might be that the default setting will stop the deck when when the folder has been recorded but auto pause might just pause it - you dont want that as with some decks the record head stays in contact with the md and is kept spinning ( = wear & tear)

not sure you understand what I mean about tracks running into one another. I assume you will set up a playlist in a player to play them automatically on your pc? if so it is the player which will run the tracks together or not. if you can set up the pc player to delay playing each track, not run them together one after another without a pause then the deck should without any fiddling around make separate tracks -the default is to make a new track on detecting a silence, you shouldnt have to adjust the deck at all. if you cannot set up the pc player to add the pause the deck cannot compensate, it needs the silence between tracks to detect whether a new track is to be made or not

in general should be a new track - suck it and see I think. How are your going to deliver the mp3's to the deck - a playlist? then that needs to deliver silent gaps/pauses for the minidisc to detect. A little while a ago I recorded The Day of The Triffids from radio and some sessions ( book broken into 17 days of 30 minutes sessions) were broken into tracks, some very short due to pauses in the guy reading the book, so I had to join them all up. I think the deck settings can be adusted for what counts as silence but that a real hastleand would need experimentation etc. But your problem will be a playlist that doesn't just run one track into another when used? Minidisc by default detects silences and uses that to create a new track. The best soln is really netmd. not sure yours is that and use Sonic stage to upload ( Sonic stage will handle MP3s, convert to atrac). Sonic Stage will then do the job making tracks. Might be worth investing in a netmd recorder if you have so many to upload. Also faster

hmm not sure a head cleaner and the lens cleaner are the same. Minidisc uses 2 heads one for playback/record and one only for record. The record only one is in contact with the disc and is a magnetic head( just like tape!) ( I think the top surface? as i see they have lubricant on them, one reason why you should NEVER clean minidisc with Fairy liquid, also question does this ever dry out so old discs will damage the recorder?) - the playback/record head is the laser - in record it heats up the disc locally so the magnetic properties can be changed, in play back just reads the surface. I think the laser head reads from the bottom? so possibly 2 types of action and 2 types of cleaner. I do have 3 - 2 described as lens cleaners ( Sony & Ross ) and 1 head cleaner ( TDK ) I very rarely use them. Looking at mine - the lens cleaners can only be played back but the headcleaner can be recorded on, I dont have the instructions any more ( :( ) but I think had to record some thing to get it to do its work, I just played mine back and yep I recorded some thing on it - the top surface is not the normal shiney but a blue dull matt I assume the cleaning surface for the record head. I would have thought that since the record head is a contact head is the one most need of cleaning if you record a lot. id you only have playback issues then the laser head needs cleaning eg http://www.totalblankmedia.com/product_info.php/tdk-minidisc-head-cleaner-p-941 or cheaper https://www.amazon.co.uk/TDK-CLMDL-MD-Lens-Cleaner/dp/B000CM677G glad this brought up as time to get a new one when i do ill report back the how-to

Best Minidisc ( forget the full size criterion ) I think it is the portable Sony MZ-B10 simply due to its internal speakers. Just realised I dont like headphones!

Asa start not analogue. I bought a small cheap optical/coax out add in backplane board for my pc? I got one from Ebay some time ago for just a few £ - my mother board does have header facility for such a board , just had to doctor the pins a bit. Maybe yours has also ( mine is an old Core Duo generation Asus P5QL Pro so nothing special )

Hello. not been here for some time, glad to see some people still here. were the ES decks overkill for the format do you think? came at a time when Sony/Phillips were still selling that cd sound perfect for ever nonsense? I know they are very well made but the cost over the JB940/980 was horrific by the way at last got myself a nice condition Sony MZ-B10 from Ebay for just £50. Seems like some people are trying to get £100+ for these. In general seems like the prices for the nice decks 940/980 are now quite high? are people paying these prices or just wishful thinking?

I am a fan of some of the early Sharp mindisc portables like these - http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sharp_MD-MT88+MT99.html AA battery, solid metal case easy to use display and optical/line in battery charge insitu, mic in and auto sound detect. And mdlp. no tone controls though. I have had mine years a bit tatty but still working. You only have to hold it to realise they cared when they made this ( budget ) unit- really solid. The ones to avoid are the ( later) plastic cased ones eg 1 bit amp like - http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sharp_IM-DR400+DR410+DR420.html have a special earphone requirement and adapter ( I have one, sounds ok but needs the special adapter for normal earbuts and dont sound that good, seems low volume ) I cant find the one you mention of minidisc.org site - the closest is this http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sharp_MD-MT270+MT290.html I never liked the look of them - lots of plastic, have never used one though. these are very budget ones I think

sounds like a salemans lingo? to charge more money? cynical arnt I?

I am now pondering actually removing all the rubber bands of the 3 decks I have in storeage. Maybe the rubber deteriorates on its own but it cant help the rubber bands being stretched in storeage. Maybe be able to stave off the other belts failing in storage?

well got my 5 belts today. Comparing the old with new, the old had stretched quite a bit! Just replaced the old one. I think best to take off the hinged bit, rather than try and poke the belt thru the front? - not very hard after the tiny spring on the side has been pulled off ( I used a needle ) Then used a pair of tweezers I have never used before the put the new one on. Result one now fully working JB940. I am glad this post was made by the op and the resulting links, as I would not have had a clue what the matter was. Sorry that his attempts at remedy didnt succeed.

did u get it? The final price is way more than I would want to pay when I consider I got my 980 new for about £230 way back