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Except when you scroll through the groups on an RH-10 Bland, Waywayrd and I had to find out how to do so, you actually press the jog quickly on the remote to access the sort options. Used to be a manual for the 40ELK. Thinking of writing one soon with all the functionality included in it for the various units.

The BC-7HT is the one I would like. It's had nothing but good reviews. I noticed the double charger as well, but most people that I have contacted about it seem to suggest it is rebadged from another company and not actually a Sony. Not much good seems to be said for the BC-7DC2, most people say it doesn't even resemble a Sony. That it is most likely a rebadge. I really don't know, would love a comment concerning the BC-7DC2 from someone here on the board.

Wow, ok, just figured out how to do it for the groups. Press the jog on the remote once quickly. You can view the tracks on your disc in a variety of ways. Select by group, there are your folders. I feel silly, I never held it down for a short amount of time. Ok, if I could just figure out how to bookmark I'd be ok. Sorry there Wayward, seems I can't figure out how to get that EQ back like I used to. I'll work on that.

For the phones, check out the sticky in the phones section about the various types for under 100$ Post is really well written. I'm a clip-on fan personally, and the recommendation for the Koss were bang on. Ok, they are ugly, but if you are a basshead and want to amp your phones at home the Koss will deliver much more then you'd expect. They are just beastly.

Aye, Atrain is right. Used to be the highest bitrate for my Sony Clié as well way back. Just love going into SS in the settings for attached devices and seeing a SLEW of devices to set preferences for.

Anyone ever try to contact Victor/JVC, Kenwood, Sony or others to see if Hi-MD is actually available to liscence or if they tried to? I'd love to have a price tag on that liscence agreement too. My japanese is kind of shaky at best, and I'm afraid I would run into a language barrier pretty fast. I think no company in Canada can answer that either as the releases seem to be in Japan only. I'm betting our much liked Moderator who's heading to CeBit has that question up his sleeve.

The RH-10 is the only one I own that does this. Possibly that it is the only model I have ever seen that you have to use the internal menus to view in group mode? On the unit: Menu MainPlayMode Group Mode (Get List of Groups as Folders to select one) On the remote: Menu MainPlayMode Group Mode (Group Mode blinks a few times then goes back to main playing screen) Think it's the way it's coded into the firmware. It is the main unit after all that tells the remote what to show.

My friends at the office have been following this closely for quite some time now. Want to know something funny? A co-worker rented Stealth the other day to watch at home. 27" computer screen with a TV tuner inside. Really sweet setup. Reading up on all this stuff makes him paranoid... so he holds down the shift key when inserting the DVD into his comp. Guess what... The comp wouldn't even read the DVD until the shift key was released. Held it down for 15 minutes. As soon as he let go.. EULA. New software from old copy protection mogul Macrovision it seems.

Strange, mine doesn't do that. If I use the jog shuttle on the 40ELK with my RH-10 I scroll through all available songs. It doesn't show the groups as folders, just one endless list. The way Bland describes it is how it works on my 600D. It also works that way on my actual RH-10 display when I use it directly. Been doing that since I got the remote really. Tried all combinations of play modes and display settings, it still does the same. Very strange. Maybe the difference with the american model I purchased here in Canada?

That has got to be the greatest quote ever. How about a 1st gen Nomad Jukebox? Man those things are heavy.

I second TheRule on the drag and drop thing. Personally I find it a pain. Ok, SonicStage has it's faults, but syncing is actually a very nice feature once you get used to it. It's one of the only reasons I actually like Jukebox software, be it Itunes or SS. I jumped 10 feet in the air when I first saw SS ask me to sync my whole library to my wife's 1 Gig Flash Player Add a new song to the library, plug up the player to charge and there it is on the go. Oh, and drag and drop doesn't have offline browsing. It's a really minor point, but sometimes you just don't feel like getting up and getting your player that is in another room that just happens to have a party in full swing. That 300 coats are piled up on yours and you have to dig through them to find your pocket. Just to see if you remembered to put a song in there. To figure out what to remove if there isn't enough room for said song. Ok, I exagerate a lot Enough with the D&D bashing Personally I can't live without removeable media. It just has to be that. It has to be easily labelled too. MDs are nice for that. I lived for years with a Sony Clie for my music. Can't write much on a Memory Stick, trust me I've tried. Can't really go lower then 4 pt with specialty fonts. Also do you know how easy those little things are to loose?? Personally, I always found 1 Gig for the media to be a nice size for music. Not too big, not too small. And the price in this case (MD) is right. It works for me. I love the MiniDisc for a lot of reasons, but also see why my wife prefers a HD or Flash unit. They both have valid points. I need to partition my music because I'm like that, my wife just likes to listen one way through. I like to lend music (knowing that in 90% of the cases the album doesn't come back like most books I lend) where my wife doesn't. I don't mind carrying a stylish leather case with a few spare discs, she does. I've tried iRivers, iPods and the like by buying them for my wife. They do what they do well, which is play music. To me it all comes down to the removeable media. You either like lugging extras around or you don't. You can get used flash players pretty cheap. I mean really cheap. I'd say start with that, try it a while and it will give you the feel for a bigger unit. And it's not like you have to cut one way or the other really in one go, you can always go back to your MD if that's more your thing. You don't have to go cold turkey.

"Bring out yer Dead" People bringing out their DATs, Tape Decks, 8 Tracks. Throwing them in piles. Little MZ-1: "I'm not dead yet!!!" Don't worry, no other new Hi-MDs out yet from other companies is just a flesh wound.

Hey Tartan, those overcomplicated computer screens are actually a pretty big business. I have a friend who makes fake computer screens for most of the Sci-Fi shows you can name, as well as motion pictures. It's a big business, rest assured it's fake. What gets me are people who just don't care about other people. Like waiting in line for an ATM for 15 minutes, it's your turn, then someone walks in from outside right up to the teller. Happened to me once. When you tell him "Hey, I've been waiting 15 minutes here!" he answers "It won't take long and I'm in a hurry!". I guess there is no chance that I am too Or when you are driving, and someone does something entirely in the wrong and actually gets angry at you for doing what's normal. He burns a red light, dings you when you were on the green. Then when you get out of the car to exchange papers he actually is screaming at you that you're an idiot and that it's your fault. I just don't get that. So that's that. Common courtesy towards others is cool. Do onto others and all that.

Like CrazyIvan I've been keeping it on to get used to it. It is actually starting to grow on me. We've been using boards for sooo many years that look exactly alike. Curious if it started out this way instead of the "normal" look that the "normal" look would actually get on our nerves. The flow I believe is actually better on portable devices if you ask me. Especially if you turn graphics off. It reads better then the default skin on a Hiptop or Sidekick anyhow. One thing I find though, this new skin is a lot brighter overall. It might benefit from some darker shades. BasicX is ok, doesn't play nice with horizontal stretching though

The 3 line scrolling is amazingly fun As I mentionned above I just wish the RH-10 would send the proper info so I could scroll through just the names of the groups on the display and enter the one of my choice. Kind of funny that the 600D handles it fine and the actual RH-10 unit does it ok from within the menu when you choose group mode.

Idle hands + Scanner + Photoshop + MD swapping = Inspiration. I love these blanks, they are all over my workspace. Hey Ishiyoshi, didn't you mention there was a model of this series with a dog? Littleman needs a friend

Oh, forgot to mention, if you are going to test it out with your RH-10, you will want to know how to access the unit's menus from the remote. Give it a full tryout. Just hold the jog shuttle down for 2 seconds, like you would the "-menu" button. This raises the question of how to bookmark tracks with it. Still trying to figure that one out I'll try recording with the remote after work tomorrow morning, see how it goes. Never really tried it. The EQ graphical representation on the remote is interesting, curious as to how they implemented the recording levels and such.

No problem, glad I could help. Minidisc Canada is great. It did arrive in it's original box, unopened. I had ordered it with a few dozen discs, a spare battery and a few other toys. I got the confirmation email with a Canada Post tracking number 3 hours after placing the order (8PM). Canada Post guy arrived with the package the next morning at 9. Ok, granted, Minidisc Canada seems to be a stone's throw away from where I live. They probably could have just walked over and dropped it off. I deal with them a lot, being one of the online stores that takes Paypal and that the packages do NOT have to go through US customs and delay it for a long long time. Proper manual and all that. Did it come with what was advertised on the site? Actually better really. For the RH-10 www.minidisc-canada.com said it would come with the NH-10WM battery. Hence me requesting the NH-14WM. It actually came with the better battery unlike what the web page said. It's not my first transaction with them, and they haven't let me down.

It's kind of funny, the 40elk does not display or act the same depending on what unit it is hooked up to AND if it is an MD or a Hi-MD disc. I've tried it on several 2nd gen units, and it does not act the same on any. With the 600D, you can cycle through several different displays using the "Display" button. With a Hi-MD you can get various combinations of Artist-Group-Album-Track. You can have it all on one page. For an MD, you are kind of stuck to Track# and Time on one line, artist-track name on line 2. Press display and you get an animation according to your EQ type. (Trumpet for Jazz setting, etc..) With the RH10, it is very different. To change the display you have to actually go into the unit menus and navigate to make your changes. Pressing the display button on the 40 ELK with a Hi-MD disc doesn't actually do much. You have full access to the menu however, whatever you can do on the jog of the unit you can do with the remote. Even setting EQ works fine. Using the Sound button on the 40elk only activates or deactivates the last setting you had. If it was Jazz, then it will turn Jazz off and on. You have to go into the menus to change it to Rock say... One thing I actually liked better with the 600D: When scrolling through tracks it was like when you navigate file folders on the RH-10. Groups showed up as folders, you entered on a group then your tracks appeared. You entered again on the track and it would play. On the RH-10 all the tracks show up one after the other. I find it makes it harder to navigate on the RH-10. I tried putting my little RH-10 in group mode, does not change the display. I tried every combination of buttons, settings, etc... I remember someone on this board had posted a link to a manual of the RH-10 that had a section on the 40ELK since it shipped with it in their country. I'd love to get my hands on that, took me a while to find out how to A->B on the remote. They ghosted my work comp so I lost that manual

Hmmmm... wonder if it would work as a gimmick... or if Sony would think about it... I dunno, how many people have bought a RH-10 for 100$ more than a RH-910 just for the OLED screen? Hunh? How many? Hehe I'm guilty Have different screen saver animations like those little perfume-bottle ATRAC flash players. A fireplace for when you picked red, bubbles for blue. Or have the whole case in a multi-colored OLED screen like those on-off tinted windows. People outside Japan will no longer get model-colour envy! Fun just thinking about it.

By your profile you seem to be in Canada. Don't be surprised for the Sony Stores, the ones in Montreal have just started getting 2nd edition players like the RH-10. For some reason, when they started getting them here in Montreal, Sony only sent them 1 unit of each model. If it sells out, they won't have anything for a while. Don't know why this is, honestly I don't. This is according to the reps at seperate stores. Mine has been working fine for quite some time, got it from Minidisc Canada. No complaints on this side. Mechanically it's working fine. Was worried about the finish, thought it would be as fragile to scratches as the plastic screen on my 40ELK remote. Isn't the case, seems a lot more resistant. Battery was worrying me for a bit there, the gumstick seemed very strange in the way it reacted to charging and how long it would last. Once you have charged and uncharged it completely a few times it becomes very stable. Same with the lid... I would eject a disc at first and it would not pop out completely, the lid would only open halfway. Had to do the rest manually. This is another strange situation that went away after usage. (A few dozen ejects and it started working like a charm) A Mem here called Blueraja posted some pics of his RH-10 after about a year of everyday use. It's in one of the reviews in the "Reviews" section on this board in an answer to someone else's review of their RH-10. Looks great to me, I will be happy if it looks that good after all that time. It feels pretty solid all in all. It is so beautiful though that you will most likely baby it a while. If you don't want to pay the extra 100 CAD$ for that screen, you can buy the RH-910 for the same with a standard LCD display.

I'd have to look at those options, the gumstick batteries are around 35 CAD$ here. I have to order them online, the Sony Store doesn't hold them. Nor chargers. Oh, walked by the Sony Store here in Montreal, Canada and they just recieved 2nd gen Hi-MD players!! Got my RH-10 from Minidisc Canada a while ago, happy I didn't have to wait for the Sony Store to get them. Been watching for a while now, and it looked like Australia and Canada were on the same schedule for releasing MD player models. When Australia was pulled, I was getting worried. Anyone ever try the BC-7DC2 charger? Everywhere I look online the quality doesn't seem too good. Also not much information on cutoff or anything like that. The BC-7HT looks more robust.

I usually switch bitrates to make something fit on whatever medium I happen to have handy. If I need to fit just a bit more then that 80m MD will take, I'll figure out what songs I like a bit less then encode those at 1 step down. I tend to like complete albums on 1 disk, so PCM for the most liked, then 256 for some, etc... That online calculator tool gets a LOT of use out of me Thanx to Rombuster's post I remember why I took 105 to start with instead of 132. It was a custom hardware project I put into my head to do with my friend's portables. Due to form factor and materials at hand my custom RS-232 (serial) miniport was limited to around 130 kbps max. Any more then that and it would just be unreliable, kept loosing information. Kind of frustrating that at the time 132 kbps was soooooo close.

Someone on ATRACLife asked me to post up pix of the last time I opened up my Clié to double the memory and/or something else in it so they could see the underlying sound system in there. It can be considered brand new the amount of things I've put in and taken out. Of course my devotion had moved back to MD for music purposes before he asked me to do this. Lurking in ATRACLife I got to really like the dynamics of the board, and following my natural MD tendencies I migrated over here. Having the service manuals handy was a great incentive... It pulled at me slowly... Lurking here a bit I discovered I really liked the moderators and the general flow. The news can't be more up to date, more then enough interesting posts to keep me coming back for more, interesting and diverse members and many more positive aspects make this a great little spot.

Listening to Essentially Naked | Bif Naked in Hi-SP. 1. Rich and Filthy 2. Back in the Day 3. I Love Myself Today 4. Spaceman 5. Lucky 6. Daddy's Getting Married 7. Moment of Weakness 8. My Satan Poem 9. Tango Shoes 10. My Whole Life 11. Chotee 12. Leader 13. My Bike 14. No Me Drink 15. Twitch 16. Choking on the Truth 17. Eine Tasse Tea 18. Everything 19. Tell On You 20. Spaceman Remix 21. Lucky Remix 22. I Love Myself Today Remix