FrzzMan Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I've just sold my last PC, now I'm with Mac full time... and realize that I can't copy music to my Hi-MD anymore Any Mac user outthere, please help *cry* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breepee2 Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I've just sold my last PC, now I'm with Mac full time... and realize that I can't copy music to my Hi-MD anymore Any Mac user outthere, please help *cry*←Virtual PC is known to work, but if you want to do that the legal way, it's expensive.I wonder why you didn't check this out before you made the switch. Sony doesn't really hide the fact it only works with Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobS Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 Was their not a HiMD unit under the "Buffalo" name that worked with Mac ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 perhaps. the buffalo han't been seen IRL by anyone here afaik. it may have been a mistranslation meaning only data transfer works on mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrzzMan Posted May 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Actually I know that SonicStage doesn't support MacOSX before I decided to switch, but I think there's some way around to fix this problem btw, I'm going to buy an external Firewire HDD and carry my whole music library to work, and download to my Hi-MD unit there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breepee2 Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Actually I know that SonicStage doesn't support MacOSX before I decided to switch, but I think there's some way around to fix this problem btw, I'm going to buy an external Firewire HDD and carry my whole music library to work, and download to my Hi-MD unit there...←I guess you havn't checked either if there firewire available on your work-PC? Most PC's don't have it. And it's almost as convenient as recording real-time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvadragon Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 true many PC's, but my desktop and laptop have firewire...only bought in 2004...but apart from that, the smartest thing would have been to get a usb 2.0 and firewire ext hdd. newayz, have fun recording all the music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_W Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 true many PC's, but my desktop and laptop have firewire...only bought in 2004...but apart from that, the smartest thing would have been to get a usb 2.0 and firewire ext hdd. newayz, have fun recording all the music←Generally the newest external HD's marketed for Mac's have both USB2.0 and Firewire; Apple actually seems to be moving away from Firewire in favor of USB2.0. FrzzMan, if you figure out a solution for using HiMD with OSX I'd like to hear about it; I'm a long-time Mac user but went with MD because I decided it was still the best solution for what I needed: a portable high-quality miniature field recorder with cheap media capable of long recording times. However I'm resigned to getting a WinXP machine as a second computer to deal with uploading and editing my recordings, assuming Sony doesn't release a version of SS for Mac's (not likely IMHO but I hope I'm wrong). -Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breepee2 Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Generally the newest external HD's marketed for Mac's have both USB2.0 and Firewire; Apple actually seems to be moving away from Firewire in favor of USB2.0. FrzzMan, if you figure out a solution for using HiMD with OSX I'd like to hear about it; I'm a long-time Mac user but went with MD because I decided it was still the best solution for what I needed: a portable high-quality miniature field recorder with cheap media capable of long recording times. However I'm resigned to getting a WinXP machine as a second computer to deal with uploading and editing my recordings, assuming Sony doesn't release a version of SS for Mac's (not likely IMHO but I hope I'm wrong). -Steve←The only solution other than recording realtime via the unit is stated in my first reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxigenicpoem Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Actually its not the only solution, look into BOCHS on MacOS. I have used BOCHS for sometime on my Linux Machine, although it is NOT the fastest, it certenly emulates the x86 archetecture nicely.http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11177 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_W Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 The only solution other than recording realtime via the unit is stated in my first reply.←Well, let's see what FrzzMan comes up with Personally I don't consider emulators a good solution; in my experience they never work quite as advertised. I'd rather spend my money on another computer, if a native solution doesn't show up. -Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 buffalo was to use the beatjam software to handle music transfer, and its supposed to work with mac from what i understood.as for firewire on pc's. you will find it on most new motherboards... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvadragon Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 I suggest using 'Virtual PC' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbud Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 Generally the newest external HD's marketed for Mac's have both USB2.0 and Firewire; Apple actually seems to be moving away from Firewire in favor of USB2.0. FrzzMan, if you figure out a solution for using HiMD with OSX I'd like to hear about it; I'm a long-time Mac user but went with MD because I decided it was still the best solution for what I needed: a portable high-quality miniature field recorder with cheap media capable of long recording times. However I'm resigned to getting a WinXP machine as a second computer to deal with uploading and editing my recordings, assuming Sony doesn't release a version of SS for Mac's (not likely IMHO but I hope I'm wrong). -Steve←Apple is not moving away from Firewire. Firewire 800 is the fastest way to transfer data via an external hardrive. All Power Macs come with FW 800 and most Powerbooks do too. The iPod is now USB 2.0 only because that is the standard on a PC. But, I would recomend an external hardrive with both Firewire and USB 2.0 because you can then connect to a most PCs. Firewire 800 is super fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikami Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Was their not a HiMD unit under the "Buffalo" name that worked with Mac ?← If you have the MacOS9.04 or the MacOSX10.0.4 then their might be an answer to your problem here: http://buffalo.melcoinc.co.jp/products/new/2005/003_1.html But, it uses a newer version of the BeatJam software and I do not know if they offer any language options other than Japanese. The previous versions of Beat Jam that were provide with Sharp Net-MD did not provide anything other than Japanese softwear. Good luck, Mikami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breepee2 Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Apple is not moving away from Firewire. Firewire 800 is the fastest way to transfer data via an external hardrive. All Power Macs come with FW 800 and most Powerbooks do too. The iPod is now USB 2.0 only because that is the standard on a PC. But, I would recomend an external hardrive with both Firewire and USB 2.0 because you can then connect to a most PCs. Firewire 800 is super fast.←So fast that there's no HDD out there able to use the standards full bandwidth If you want to be compatible with 99.9% of the PC's, make sure it knows what USB(2) is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryzir Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 I found a place to download the newest BeatJam software but I can't see anywhere that it supports mac. Although a lot could be lost in the translating.BeatJam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrzzMan Posted May 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Thanks for your note: My PC @ work have the seperated Firewire card... and it work great with my Firewire closure Now I can download the music to my NH3D @ work. The greater thing is, I have faster Internet line @ work than @ home, man now I'm downloading music non-stop free bandwidth lol...And the greatest thing is, believe it or not, my PowerBook with the OS installed on external (Firewire) HDD is running faster, yes I mean FASTER... man this is the most effective investment of mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool_hand Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 I'm using SonicStage with Virtual PC in OSX. It works but is very very slow. I upgraded to SonicStage 3.1 and that has made a slight improovement — but honestly it is far to slow. Could it be that hard to write a transfer utility for Max OSX? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxigenicpoem Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 (edited) Not that it would be hard, but as far as I know the Hi-MD transfer hasn't been cracked. I think NotMd which is horribly stalled, is the only thing I can think of.http://notmd.sourceforge.net Edited May 15, 2005 by toxigenicpoem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool_hand Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 Not that it would be hard, but as far as I know the Hi-MD transfer hasn't been cracked. I think NotMd which is horribly stalled, is the only thing I can think of.http://notmd.sourceforge.net←It seems that NotMD has been written for PC!I can connect my NH1 to my Mac and use it as a back up device. it transfers fairly quickly – so theoritcally it shouldn't be to hard for there to be a Mac Utility for sound files to MD. SONY should really got on the case here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtunes Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 can a HI-MD recorder at least mount on a mac desktop and act as a portable storage unit(forgetting any sort of audio transfers)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool_hand Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 can a HI-MD recorder at least mount on a mac desktop and act as a portable storage unit(forgetting any sort of audio transfers)?←Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunu Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 has any actuallt tried mounting a Sony HiMd to their mac OSX desktop ?Cand you drag and drop audio data files ?thansk,m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 you can drag n drop data & audio as data, however you can not playback such audio on the md. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 is the 2nd gen himd using a diffrent way of storing mp3 files then the hd3?of not then didnt someone crack the way that hd3 stores mp3s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernst Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 you can drag n drop data & audio as data, however you can not playback such audio on the md.←So, please help me to understand this correctly. I use a Mac and am very interested in Hi-MD.If I record using a microphone onto a Hi-MD recorder, uncompressed .wav format, can I then connect it to my Mac (OS X) and drag and drop the audio from the MD to the Mac? No special software necessary?(note: I don't care about getting audio from the Mac to the MD, just from the MD to the Mac.)Thanks very much!Ernst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 If I record using a microphone onto a Hi-MD recorder, uncompressed .wav format, can I then connect it to my Mac (OS X) and drag and drop the audio from the MD to the Mac? nope... what atrain saidyou can drag n drop data & audio as data, however you can not playback such audio on the md.also applies when inverted: all audio files you can playback on the MD (which would include analogue recordings with a mic) can't be transferred by drag n drop-> this always requires SonicStage which isn't Mac-compatible (unless through virtual PC)greetings, Volta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernst Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 nope... what atrain said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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