I just got an MZ-M100 to record live music rehearsals and upload to a Mac over USB (NOT in realtime). I'm excited that it works at all, in PCM mode, but am pretty unhappy that Hi-SP and Hi-LP canNOT be uploaded digitally. Why? Because recording in the super-high quality PCM mode is overkill for most of my purposes, because the recording time is MUCH less in PCM mode, and because the resultant files are much larger. Has any third party hack been written to allow transfer of the compressed modes? I know I can do it analogly, in realtime, but that's a terrible solution. I obviously disagree strongly with this quote, from the first page of this topic, and taken from http://home.earthlink.net/~mac-minidisc/Mac-MD/MZ-M100.html ----- "The only recordings that can be transferred to a Mac using Hi-MD WAV Importer are those made through the mic or line input in Linear PCM mode. It's just as well, since Linear PCM provides pure, uncompressed audio quality -- and that's usually the best choice for gathering source material." ----- Is is NOT just as well. Why should we the users be restricted in recordings we make ourselves? It's not surprising, in one sense, that there would be such artificial restrictions, given the restrictions made in the Windows software, like have to check files back in and such garbage, but unless there's some technical reason (which I'll never believe), NOT BEING ABLE TO DIGITALLY UPLOAD HI-SP AND HI-LP MODE RECORDING MADE VIA A MIC IS UNACCEPTABLE. Obviously I'm happy there's SOME Mac support, but clearly I'm not happy.
