batfastad Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 Hi, I was just wondering - how long does it take to transfer say 250MB of mp3 to minidisc using hi-md? What are the speeds people get for the different codecs? I'm on an old intel pentium 3 laptop and it takes ages to transfer tracks using even lp2 and lp4 using netmd - I have an mds jb980s netmd deck. I'm looking at getting a hi-md portable you see and soon I'll get a new laptop so hopefully transfer speed will be a bit better. I don't really use mdlp at the moment as my current sony portable player doesn't do LP - only the old style mono LP. Just want to know whether to go for some kind of mp3 player like an ipod or to go hi-md. How much slower is transferring 250mb to hi-md than transferring 250mb to an ipod? I don't want to invest in hi-md and then find out that it takes 30 mins to get 250mb onto the disc. Thanks Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwakrz Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 If you went the iPod route then you will be transfering your current MP3's straight onto the unit, no reconversion. As you already know, transfering onto an MD is alot slower but you have the advantage of gapless playback of originally ripped CD's (MP3 is not designed for gapless playback), small convienient disc size that gives you unlimited storage, nickability is not as great as an iPod (Most people dont know what it is), longer battery life, user replacable batteries (Ask iPod owners about failing batteries). Personally, if you have a large collection of MD's presently then I would stick with it. If not then for your use I would say MP3 player, or you could wait & see if sony release MP3 support for Hi-MD (fingers crossed) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b.e.wilson Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 I don't want to invest in hi-md and then find out that it takes 30 mins to get 250mb onto the disc.It does. Only with Hi-MD you can spend 1.5 hours to move a whole GByte to the disc. We really do need the mp3 support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latexxx Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 It is faster to just rip as atrac3/plus usign SS and then copying files over to md. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksandbergfl Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 Hi, I was just wondering - how long does it take to transfer say 250MB of mp3 to minidisc using hi-md? I'm on an old intel pentium 3 laptop and it takes ages to transfer tracks using even lp2 and lp4 using netmd - I have an mds jb980s netmd deck. . BenYour speed problem is because your PC is busy converting MP3 to Sony's ATRAC format, before it transfers the songs to your NetMD unit. If your songs were already converted to ATRAC, your transfer time would be minimal. Try it -- convert a song first (don't transfer). Then, using the Transfer function, transfer the song to NetMD. See the difference? The transfer rate between any PC, regardless of CPU, and HiMD is USB1.1, or 500Kbytes/sec. You can transfer 1GB of data onto a 1GB HiMD disk in about 30 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafplayer Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 ...nickability is not as great as an iPod (Most people dont know what it is), ...what do you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 Translation: Nobody's going to steal (nick) it from you because no one knows what it is. Whereas the iPod is a lot more recognizable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 It does. Only with Hi-MD you can spend 1.5 hours to move a whole GByte to the disc.Less than 30 Minutes here. And still less than 45 minutes including conversion from MP3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwakrz Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 Thanks A440, thats exactly what I meant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batfastad Posted November 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Excellent. I know my laptop's slow and at the moment it is a bottleneck in the conversion process. Transferring over netmd is really slow for me. Hopefully in a couple of months I'll get a new laptop. 30 mins for 1GB isn't too bad! That's tempted me back into hi-md territory. I don't want to go for an ipod on principle. I've got loads of my cds already on md. I might wait a few months then go for it. In the meantime I notice more and more memory card MP3 players are starting to appear (about time!) so you can just swap in compact flash cards. If only sony had made hi-md fully mp3 compatible. That would have been an ipod killer! It just wouldn't be Sony though without some kind of copyright protection/feature limitation like that. Thanks for your help guys. I'll try converting to atrac then transferring. I know that that's where the bottleneck is, my laptop is 5 years old, 700MHz processor and CPU usage hits 100% constantly as soon as it's converting. Thanks again Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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