I am a new member who needs a little help with format...

[sammymvpknight]

i own a Sony NETMD MZ-N707 TYPE-R...i have had it for about 3 years...and i must say that it may be the best investment I ever made. I love everything about it...BESIDES THE PROGRAM THAT CAME WITH IT. I am a college student and like to tape my lectures (yaeh I am pretty nerdy) and listen to them while I am at work. I own a Sony IC Recorder ICD-P28 to do my recordings. OPENMG will not let me convert into ATRAC3!!! I just downloaded REAL and got the NETMD plugin...but I don't really know how to use that program. Is there a way to compress the files on REAL...because I know that REAL would let me transfer the recordings to my NETMD...but not in a compressed file. each one of my lectures are 1 hour and 15 minutes...and I want to be able to get more than one lecture per disc. ARE THERE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT WOULD WORK BETTER FOR ME?

BTW...just if anybody wanted to know...my recorder saves files in the format of...

DVF, MSV, and WAV

I would appreciate it if anyone could give me some help. I love the site...I haven't had a chance to look around much...but it looks great!

[Qwakrz]

I have never heard of DVF or MSV. However WAV is another story.....

I would suggest that you download and install SonicStage from www.connect.com as it will work with your N707, I know how bad the OpenMG software that came with the N707 is as I also have one (now redundant due to MZ-NH1).

SS 2.2 will allow you to import the WAV recording into it and re-encode it into LP4 mode (if its just speech, anything else sounds bad) so you can fit just over 5 hours of them on a disc.

Because of the way SS works, it cannot import files that it does not have a filter for so I would not xpect it to import DVF or MSV files.

However, I have just looked up the MSV file extension and its apparently a sony voice file. They have recorders and software that can record and playback this file format so SS should (in the sony sence of the word) transcode it, but dont hold your breath.

[sammymvpknight]

thanks a tons...i will get on it and get back to you how it worked out.