Newbie seeking assistance! 2 concerts stealth'd on MD..?????

[tomluvsgiants]

Greetings Friends,

A while ago I 'inherited' a SONY MD MZ-N707 (the blue one) from a friend as it was agreed upon that I would have the best opportunity to actually record some live concerts and get some use out of the player which hadn't seen any. My first reaction was LUCKY ME!! But now as I am nearly bald from pulling out my hair whilst trying to figure this thing out I'm beginning to have some doubts.

I recorded two entire concerts recently and have played the MD back through attached headphones and am somewhat pleased with the results. HOW DO I GET THIS CONVERTED TO A WAVE file or some other method of making a CDR of my recording??

A friend said to get "Pro Tools" but I am running Windows XP-Home and Pro-tools will not work with my set-up, I guess. So I searched around for a while and have downloaded both Net MD & Sonic Stage which I believe should be able to help me move my recordings from MD to WAVE(??). Now I've got the MD player hooked up to my Compaq via the headphone jack (per my friends instruction) and while I can now play the MD through the speakers of my computer system, I can't use the software because Sonic Stage refuses to recognize the MD player as being attached.

Could someone please let me know if I am doing this wrong? Am I barking up the wrong tree with Sonic Stage alltogether? Am I kidding myself thinking that I'll be able to use this MD MZ-N707 for anything other than recording stealth concerts on MD that ONLY I will be able to enjoy......can I really not create WAVs??

Thanks so much for any and all help.....there's nothing more I'd like to do than record some of the concerts I'm lucky enough to see and share my results with good folks like yourselves.

tXb

[watcher666]

Hi

Welcome to the forums!

Firstly, you cannot upload recording's to SonicStage made on a NETMD recorded! You are also connecting to your PC using the wrong method for using sonicstage, there should be a USB data cable with you MD unit which is what you must use to connect to your PC.

The only way to get your audio onto your PC is to use a 3.5mm Stereo plug to plug lead and connect one end to the "Line Out" of your MD and the other to the "Line In" of your PC! (the same way you were trying before but without using sonic stage).

Hopefully another forum user can recommend a suitable PC application that you can use to record from your PC's line input as a wav file! Then you can burn it to CD!

You were halfway there!

Hope this is useful! :smile:

[dex Otaku]

MD and netMD cannot 'upload' to a PC digitally. You have to copy your minidiscs to the computer by analogue means, which it sounds like you've already plugged yourself in to do - so you're partway there.

SonicStage is for putting music -on- to netMD, which won't help you here. If you had a HiMD recorder, you could also use it to upload from HiMD to the computer, but alas, you don't.

Audacity [http://audacity.sourceforge.net] is a good open-source audio editor [meaning free].

Basically the procedure for getting your music into the computer is the same as you would use to record from any stereo source - plug it in, record the tracks using an editor, edit them as you please, save them [of course] and then burn them to CD.

That's a rather brief rundown on how to do it, but if you look it the MD/netMD forum here, you'll find more specifics on how to do this.

[tomluvsgiants]

Thanks SOO MUCH for the help!

I used audacity to get the music into a WAV file, now was wondering if anyone could reccomend a good open-source program to manipulate the WAV file into tracks & such before I burn to CD??

thanks again, you folks ROCK--

t

[dex Otaku]

Nero actually works very well. I don't know what came with your computer or burner, but I recommend Nero over most programs as far as reliability and function are concerned.

I'm not aware of what's out there for OSS burning software, though.

[aeriyn]

I'm not aware of what's out there for OSS burning software, though.

By and by, Nero's the best CD burning software in existence. Roxio is awful.

[dex Otaku]

I'm actually quite fond of CD Architect for CD-DA creation, however, it lacks many key features that make Nero my mainstay. So. I make them in CDA and burn a master, then do the rest with Nero. Irony?