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If you're ripping from a CD, use the optical output from a CD player or DVD player (nearly every cheap DVD player has optical out). You can enter all the track information in Sonic Stage. The tracks will be totally gapless and the CD/DVD player sends a signal letting your Minidisc player know about when each track starts.

Hey, that looks like my design! After opening three 9V batteries (two of them Duracell like the howto) none of them had the plastic case thing, but instead cardboard-backed contacts and cheap, thin plastic wrapping. So I had no choice but to use this design, and it's worked very well. Instead of hot gluing the whole thing, I just put duct tape over the components as I wasn't sure how hot it would get (not very, but I didn't know if I had shorted anything) but I do plan on covering it all in glue now. The first recording was at a heavy metal show. Not the loudest show I've been to, but I got good results with very little clipping standing just behind the soundboard. But the sensitivity of the capsules is noticably different so I'll have to match a pair. Thanks for the howto greenmachine!