Is it possible to get recordings on a *NetMD* => WAV ?

[gildasp]

Hi,

I know there is a solution for Hi-MD (WAV Conversion tool of Sony and Hi-MD Renderer) but what about for NetMD ? Any solutions better than analogic recording ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Gigi.

[Fat Tires]

Sadly there is no better way to get pre-Hi-MD recordings back to the PC than analog in realtime.

[Christopher]

Discussed slightly more in detail here: http://forums.minidisc.org/viewtopic.php?t=7073

[1kyle]

True -- you have to do it via a sound card -- but if you have a little bit of money and a laptop this one is BRILLIANT.

It's the Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Pcmcia card which fits into any notebook pcmcia slot. There's Digital and Line IN and Digital OUT. There's also a "Speaker" Dock which allows you to connect to Stereo / 5.1 / 6.1 / 7.1 speaker systems complete with a built in Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ETS encoder (great for DVD's or just ripping the sound).

Software includes mult-format conversions so you can record your minidisc in WAV or whatever and then with the digital output copy it to minidiscs / other computers etc.

I've been doing this to convert some of my old Net-MD stuff to HI-MD format.

There's none of the stupid restrictions that Sonic Stage has.

Of course the digital OUT will have to be done in real time but at least this method works flawlessly and for Digital recordings that you've already got on the computer you can now make a Minidisc copy (digitally) and this minidisc CAN be uploaded to another computer.

If you have NERO however you can mount a Virtual Disc (Nero Drive Image --bundled with Nero) and burn the WAV files to the disc image and then use Simple Burn -- if you have a MI-MD recorder otherwise the Digital OUT and IN will have to be done in real time however.

Quality is fine -- I've checked it on a 'Scope and the files are really nice and clean.

If you've got a Laptop and want a nice Xmas prezzie you can't do better than this Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS card --- even the software is great and also of course supports Sound Fonts2.1 and 24 bit 96 KHZ audio.

Even using a pair of "Cans" is great -- sitting on a Plane watching a DVD and listening in great DTS mode is quite a good way of passing time on a long flight as well.

Throughly to be recommended. Note that it's Windows only -- sorry Mac users.

(There might be a version of this for "Ordinary" computers but I haven't yet seen one. I'm sure there must be. Perhaps someone else has one and can post their impressions of it).

Bye Bye Crap Sony Software ( I like your devices but the software does "you know what !!" ) big time.

Happy Xmas everyone

-K