vlad4003

This sounds interesting but this key combination actually does NOTHING on my unit. Should the "hold" be on or off... I tried both but does not seem to have any effect. What am I doing wrong then? Thanks! v4003

Here I am back. I got it to Sony and they said they will try to fix it in 2 or 3 weeks. When/If they fix it, I'll let you know what caused the problem. As for the Guitarfxr's concerns: Yes I carry my minidisc with me every day and use it quite often for recording my musical ideas/ambience sounds/live shows. It is a 350euro unit so I treat it with an appropriate attention, though not treating it as a "museum piece". But it can hardly be defined as a heavy use. I was downloading 5 Hi-MD's that I filled in the last 3-6 months. So I am a normal user I guess. Every thing can break, and it's all right, but am I just starting to wonder whether it is all right if exactly the same thing keeps coming back again and again, with various models from the same producer, after approximately the same period of use.

Today I was downloading stuff using SonicStage from my MZ-RH1 and while I downloaded like 5 full Hi-MD of my recording without problem, with the final one, while deleting a track, the unit suddenly "breezed"... and started making weird sounds like if the engine would like to move the optical head further but there would be a physical obstacle that would prevent it to move that far (see I am describing what immagination the sound triggered in my fantasy rather then what actually happened). This would happened before, very scarcely, from time to time, ever since I bought the unit. The unit would go on with such a sound and the sort of "time out" and everything would be fine again. The same happened today (but the delete action) wouldn't finish in SS. So I restarted SonicStage, restarted the unit and when SS came up, it said it was determinig what files got deleted without their right being transfered (or something similar). I then got back the click-"head-jumping" sound and it would go on for a long time this time... so in the end, when all my cancellation efforts failed, I unplugged the USB cable from the unit. This made SonicStage crash, but the unit continued with its sound making, just to stop with "READING ERROR" after another while. Now, no matter what disc I insert into the unit MD/Hi-MD ever since, I get "NO DISC" sign on the unit... it doesn't even make the usual engin-starting sound, it just clicks few times and then I get this message... Any thoughts, similat experience anyone? Is the unit fucked?! If so, I still have my warranty, but will feel a bit shit. While my first unit MZ-R701 still works till these days, I eventually switched to MZ-RH10 as I need uncompressed recordings. MZ-RH10 was A REAL DISASTER in any means! It had a great display and navigation, but here stop anything good you can say about the "unit". The battery life was ridiculously short, making it virtually useless (short time battery recording, huge broom with a mic and a power cord plugged in - later not really units' "fault"). And it died exactly 1 year after I bought it... the engine or the optics died, just 1 week after my warranty expired. The service women were kind enough to backdate my complain, so it got repaired on SONY's expenses. I sold it. I bought MZ-RH1 a year ago, maybe 13 months? And... the unit is fucked now, probably. The warranty is 2 years this time, but is SONY serious with such a record?! I mean, we are talking about 350euro worth unit! Talking to Sony: >> Shame on you guys! Where is your dignity!!! <<

well, while the google ads are not that disturbing to me, I can't see much other things being added to the site in at least last 6 months or so. the last period of having brought a lots of interesting news was the last spring/summer's RH1 releasing madness. is it really so, that there is nothing going on? isn't it possible to get more info from sony about the future, alternatives, ecc. like this the interest in the site will slowly fade away. at least for me. and, oh!, all this dead isn't dead thing all the time! for me a site is dead if there's no new useful information on it, with or without ads.

The whole procedure sounds nice but didn't work for me. I don't know what happened but one of my HI-MD discs got AUDIO FILE ERROR recently. I lost some valuable recordings - ideas for the first time like this. Don't know what produced the error. The disc was unreadable in "audio" mode, but I run chkdsk /F on it in data mode (it said: I got Lost chain cross-linked Orphan truncated) and it corrected the ATA* file size and I was hoping to recover the recording using the method above. I tried to record a new "bogus" recording and then replac it by the original data file that I was able to copy to my hard-drive without trouble. I can confirm the bogus recording must be SMALLER then the original file or you'll get the FORMAT ERROR DISC message. If you make it "slightly" smaller (860MB in my case - the orig file size was 865MB) everything seems fine, the MZ-RH1 reads the TOC and starts to play the track but... and this is a big BUT... all I got out was noise at full volume. I tried to FF through the recording but all I got was this data? noise. So, it works technically and in principle but cannot be used to save one's recordings... at least for me. Real-life testimony. Howgh. Does anyone know at which specific situations is this AUDIO FILE ERROR produced? Never happened to me before in 8 years I've been using the MD/HI-MD technology? Is it a media failure or more recorder error related?! Thanks for your answers in advance! V.