Playing Sony Mz-r55 Recordings On Sony Mds-s39

[sillyputty1967]

Hi there,

I'm wondering if anyone out there can tell me if I'll be able to play live recordings made by a portable Sony MZ-R55 on a Sony MDS-S39 (a home deck which I'm considering purchasing used on Ebay at the moment). I would like to use the optical out on the MDS-S39 to move the tracks into my eMac for editing and archiving. FYI, I have an M-Audio Transit device that will convert the optical signal into USB for computer input.

Or, might I be better advised to invest in a portable player that has native USB output?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Fort Worth, Texas

[Tourist]

That should play the recordings from the MZ-R55, which will be SP.

Only Hi-MD recordings (PMC, Hi-SP, Hi-LP), not older MD (SP, LP2, LP4) are uploadable via USB, and then only to a PC, not a Mac. So the portable player will be of no use to you for this purpose.

[sillyputty1967]

Thanks so much for your help-- I guess my main concern was that there might be some incompatibility between the players even though it appears that they came out the same year.

May I ask another question? Am I understanding correctly that I should be able to upload tracks to my Mac from the Sony MDS-S39 via USB (using the M-Audio Transit device which converts the optical signal to USB)? Or are you saying that USB transfers don't work at all on the Mac, not matter what MD format?

Thanks again!

That should play the recordings from the MZ-R55, which will be SP.

Only Hi-MD recordings (PMC, Hi-SP, Hi-LP), not older MD (SP, LP2, LP4) are uploadable via USB, and then only to a PC, not a Mac.  So the portable player will be of no use to you for this purpose.

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[Tourist]

Sorry, I was being a little cryptic.

You can record in realtime through any computer input (like your optical/USB) and a recording program like Audacity or whatever you're using in your eMac. That's what you're going to need to do with your recordings from the MZ-R55. It's recording, in realtime, but elsewhere on this site it is, rather confusingly, called uploading.

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070

Faster-than-realtime transfer--which makes sense, they're just digital files--was only enabled for Hi-MD. That goes through USB from Hi-MD players, and only for the Hi-MD formats. The program that does that is SonicStage, which only runs on PCs, not Macs.

For previous players, and for the old MD formats, the USB transfer is only one way, from PC to MD, to use the MD as a portable music player.

Edited April 14, 2005 by Tourist