Old Mds --> Hi Md

[Kaineda77]

Hi together,

I have a collection of about 100 Md that I recorded analogue with my Sony RC-30 (really old). Now I thought of buying a new HD-Minidiscplayer and putting all my old Md on very few Hi-MD. How should I go about it? I would prefer to put them digitally on a pc and from there on the Hi-MDs but I lack the proper cable for the RC-30. Does anybody know which cable I might use? Or is it easiest to directly connect the two Md-Players?

Thanks beforehand,

Kai

Edited May 10, 2005 by Kaineda77

[atrain]

you options as i see them are

rc-30 -> pc* -> himd

or

rc-30 -> himd

i'd go with option one although both are going to take some time & suffer some sound quality degredation. with both methods you can use the software to title & manage the songs on the discs. if you still have any of the cds or mp3s the music came on use them instead

* into a recording software like audacity or soundforge then to sonicstage.

[Kaineda77]

Thanks a lot, so I guess there is no way to tranfer the music digitally/losless from a MD-Player to the PC?

[atrain]

i'm sorry i can't find a reference to your model no. on the database here or via google. if your md player has an optical out & your soundcard has an optical in you can record it that way still using the software to record.

current himd models will playback your old discs too.

[MusicBringer]

Hello Kaineda77, like you I too have many many traditional minidiscs. However, although I considered transferring it all to several One Gig discs I have left it all as it was. I can play them ok on my new NH900, as well as my old Denon Deck.

I thought the time and cost to do the transferring, plus the inevitable loss in sound quality was just not worth it. My efforts are now directed to making One Gig discs of New (to me) Music.

[Kaineda77]

Thanks for the bad news guys ;-), damn, and I thought we were living in the digital age

[The Low Volta]

Thanks for the bad news guys ;-), damn, and I thought we were living in the digital age

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well... now we are, but unfortunately it only began @ hi-md

[Syrius]

I would suggest getting a MD deck with optical out, plugging that in to a Hi-MD unit that has input, (record in the flavor of your choice), and upload it from the HiMD to your PC. And then use Marcnet's Hi-MD renderer to convert to the format of your choice.

[atrain]

I would suggest getting a MD deck with optical out, plugging that in to a Hi-MD unit that has input, (record in the flavor of your choice), and upload it from the HiMD to your PC. And then use Marcnet's Hi-MD renderer to convert to the format of your choice.

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it'd still be easier to record md digi out to soundcard digi in.

anyway kaineda is it deffo an RC-30? & does it have the optical out?

[Kaineda77]

Sorry, I remembered it wrong, its a Sony MZ-R30. It has just a normal line-out, but I dont think this should be of any importance, since, in case I get a Himd-Player, I can as well use the optical out of this, right?

[A440]

Hi-MDs have optical in, not optical out. If you record out of the headphone jack through your soundcard to your PC, with something like Audacity, then you are recording the analog signal from the headphone jack.

If you do get a Hi-MD, you could use the TotalRecorder method:

TotalRecorder records what goes into your soundcard before the computer plays it back, in real time. It's $11.95, well worth it.

http://www.highcriteria.com/

Put the old MD into the Hi-MD unit, hook up via USB. Use SonicStage to play back the old MD through your computer, and record it with TotalRecorder. Then use CDWave to split it automatically into separate tracks.

http://www.milosoftware.com/cdwave/

[Kaineda77]

I thought Hi-MD could be used to store data and stuff as well, how can it then not have an optical out? I am probably getting something seriously wrong here....

[A440]

It has a USB port that connects it as a data storage device. Optical out is different--it's like a digital version of the headphone-out jack.

[Syrius]

Hi-MDs have optical in, not optical out. If you record out of the headphone jack through your soundcard to your PC, with something like Audacity, then you are recording the analog signal from the headphone jack.

If you do get a Hi-MD, you could use the TotalRecorder method:

TotalRecorder records what goes into your soundcard before the computer plays it back, in real time. It's $11.95, well worth it.

http://www.highcriteria.com/

Put the old MD into the Hi-MD unit, hook up via USB. Use SonicStage to play back the old MD through your computer, and record it with TotalRecorder. Then use CDWave to split it automatically into separate tracks.

http://www.milosoftware.com/cdwave/

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Sorry, but that won't work. SonicStage will not play the music through the computer if it's a regular disc recorded on true SP or NetMD mode. The sound will be heard through the Hi-MD headphone out.