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you can get twice as many songs on with lp4 but now and again you can hear that it's not top notch audio... i masked some of this with trying some better suited headphones. that were made by sony. you might do 1 minidisc with 10 albums on it in lp4, like i have, stuff i don't listen to as much. and do your favourite 5 albums on one minidisc in lp2...

i got a minidisc cleaner from ebay, used it and now everything is working fine. i have a good few albums on it...

you know the inside is very clean. which is why i haven't had a go... but i think it's a good idea. i shall have a go.

oh well looks like i have got to keep it i told the seller it was ok after getting 7 songs on it (and thinking it is just buggy software.) but i spoke too soon... i have not been able to get anymore songs on it as it pauses for ages and i can hear the disk spinning up and down. with nothing on the lcd. on the positive side i would have been happy with it as lp4 is still a good sounding file and small size. i think i'll see if i can get another to burn the minidisc as this seems to play ok and use this for just listening...

this is a funny place to talk about linux isn't it? there are no apps to use minidisc drives under linux... yet. anyway i use ubuntu and xandros. i don't know how safe wine with any windows software is on the net.

i did convert them first... software as mentioned 3.4 and 4.0 on a p3 800mhz laptop and an athlon 3200+... i don't see why those computers wouldn't be up to the job... i even uninstalled my antivirus software/ firewall. i see the sony site says they don't support a multiboot computer, and they are both that with "bootitng." perhaps thats the problem? i could try and install just the os. but i'm dealing with other items from ebay... i will try and get another brand new minidisc. (i did buy 5 new ones... mmm...) and also i'll see if i can borrow a minidisc from someone. but when i get the other stuff done i shall return this if it won't do the job as i know have a 2gb mp3 and a minicd mp3... only short on battery life! i used to have to have big pockets in my coat for my big mp3 cd player and i've had 2 flash drives give up on me... it was a tossup on the minicd or minidisc. minidisc had it on battery life... but mini mp3 cd has the drag and drop convenience. i would have kept both but if it don't work... thanks anyway.

hi, i don't know who might sell a minidisc locally but it might be worth getting one from a shop to alay my fears for sure. while i have just got 5 brand new wrapped discs off ebay i can't vouch for them, left somewhere too hot or too cold??? mmm... i also tried realplayer as transfer software seeing a tip on the net, but it's the same situation.

hi, yeah that was a good idea, i read that in the manual. i didn't get it with an official sony adaptor. after trying for a while on batteries i improvised with a gameboy color adaptor same plug 3v and it has worked fine on that... but it didn't solve the problem with transfering more than one file...

hi, the cable was not designed for the sony unit, it came with a card reader... but i'm assuming usb is usb? it was new and i know it works... the 2 two pc's are totally different in usb make... i can't vouch for the unit, i was told it works. interesting to note it will play back the song it records to the device. i was wondering if it was a media problem. i would have put it down to this had it been a cdrw or so... the media is tdk branded. but i assume on md's theres only one type of media and it should be compatible? thanks.

hi all, i have just bought an net md mz-510. which was only for portable listening/ small size/ long battery life/ and being able to change discs. ideal! except... it switches on ok and all the usual stuff/ recognises blank discs etc. but i have tried on a laptop and pc using sonicstage 3.4/ 4. and simple burner under xp and 98se, with not much luck. the behaviour is this with sonicstage i try to get an albums worth of music on it but only the first file can but transfered... at some point after that first file the "pc-md" icon is not on the md then a long pause then it tells me it couldn't transfer the others... i have tried this over and over and got the same results. i am taking it back on the advice given here or not. my first port of call would have been some alcohol on the record head... i don't have a long time to search through this forum. time is of the essance. thanks.