Help Me To Save My Recordings!

[avil]

I've recorded lectures on my HiMD 1GB disc for a long time. I uploaded some of them to my friend's laptop, but his computer was erased. So I decided to split the lectures to regular 80min. discs. My plan was to backup the disc on a computer by copying all the data on it to a computer. Then, I tried to copy it back to the disc, and the MD said that it can't read it, and asked if I want to create an audio file.

What can I do to save the files? They are very important to me...

I understood that something was wrong because I tried that once and it worked. And I realized that In that computers preferences It didn't show the hidden files. which means it didn't copy the 0kb file on the root directory. Could that be the reason? What can I do to solve it?

Please reply the message to avil77@coolmail.co.il since I don't have access to the net usually accept of this e-mail address.

[LowMD]

You only get one upload with Hi-MD and SonicStage tags the files somehow to prevent you from doing it again.

Your safest bet is to record in realtime out of the MD's headphone jack--either into your computer (with Audacity), then save as mp3s and load onto disc with SonicStage. Or record directly into another MD if you can borrow one.

Whatever you do, don't hook up SonicStage to the 1GB disc. it may delete the original files from the disc.

[dex Otaku]

To clarify a bit of what LowMD said:

If you try to UPLOAD the tracks again, SS wll delete them. Otherwise they should be fine.

There are two routes to go for getting the audio off the disc:

First is the analogue route, as LowMD suggested.

Second is to use a utility like Total Recorder [$11.95USD] to copy the audio digitally from HiMD in real time. Basically, you play the disc using SS - SonicStage will control the HiMD and decode the audio during playback; all it's doing is playing, not uploading, not changing the contents of the disc. While playing through SS you can record the audio digitally using Total Recorder, to a WAV file. These files will end up being quite large [10MB/minute of recording] but can be converted down to mp3 or whatever format is handy for you afterward.

Look in the FAQs forum [one below the HiMD forum] for instructions on how to use TR if you're interested in going that route.

Either way, you're looking at copying the audio in realtime, meaning if you have 10 hours recorded, it will take at least 10 hours to copy it.

Good luck.

[avil]

I think my question wasn't clear enough. My problem now is that the minidisc doesn't read any tracks on this disc at all.

[dex Otaku]

Ah. Did you already try to copy the tracks a second time? The way your first post reads [[or rather, re-reads] seems that way.

In that case, the tracks are most likely gone and unrecoverable. You could try sending the disc to Sony to see if they can recover them, perhaps.