Help With Md And Car Audio

[Nukular]

Hi,

I hope this is the right place to post this, I'm sorry if it isn't.

Firstly I have got a Sony NetMD player, model: MZ-N510 and I use the software that came with it which is sonicstage. And for the car audio I have got a Panasonic QC-MRX7000, which can play CD's and MD's.

Now to the problem, the car audio system just won't play my mini disk, all I hear is a fuzzy sound in the background and no music at all. I have no idea why it's doing this at all. When I put a CD in it works fine. But with a MD there is no music coming out of it, just static.

I really need some help on how to get it working.

Thanks!

Edited July 8, 2005 by Nukular

[The Low Volta]

perhaps your car MD is pre-MDLP (and it will only play SP)... what format did you use on the discs: LP2, LP4? Try recording one in SP and see if that works

if not, let us know...greetings, Volta

[gmdisc]

perhaps your car MD is pre-MDLP (and it will only play SP)... what format did you use on the discs: LP2, LP4? Try recording one in SP and see if that works

if not, let us know...greetings, Volta

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Yeah, that is definitely the case. That model is not an MDLP capable model. So it is probably a matter of recording your MDs in SP only.

[ROMBUSTERS]

just remember use real time recording via digital input if possible as SonicStage only transfers SP with LP2 quality

[Nukular]

perhaps your car MD is pre-MDLP (and it will only play SP)... what format did you use on the discs: LP2, LP4? Try recording one in SP and see if that works

if not, let us know...greetings, Volta

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Sorry for sounding like a newbie, but how would I go about recording a song with Sonicstage into SP? And yes the files that are currently on my MD are LP2

[The Low Volta]

open SS-> tools-> options ->transfer ->select your NetMD -> transfer settings -> set specific rate SP or you could just press the setting button underneath the red transfer arrows when you have your NetMD connected

but remember, as Rombusters already pointed out, this fake SP from SS will produce discs that will play in your car, but it is not the real, very good sounding SP that you would get when you record discs in realtime straight from a source (preferably a CD-player with digital/optical out -> optical in on MD)

happy listening,

Volta

[bri]

Weird, I don't get any fuzzy sounds when I put in MD-LP disks into my car player. They don't play but I just get text on the display and silence.

[Nukular]

Thanks a lot it's working now using the SP format.

[MDX-400]

Weird, I don't get any fuzzy sounds when I put in MD-LP disks into my car player.  They don't play but I just get text on the display and silence.

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Your unit is doing what it is supposed to be doing. Part of the original MD specification required that when the player sees a certain data type on the disc it will mute it's audio output. This was a "reserved" function up until the advent of MDLP. This, incidentally, is also why LP2/4 have extra data bits in their stream that do not carry audio--they are used to mute the audio if pb is attempted on a non-MDLP unit.

However, it seems this [Panasonic QC-MRX7000] unit (and perhaps others as Sony warns about it in MDLP documentation IIRC) doesn't follow the standard and accordingly mute the output. Instead it just tries to throw it through the ATRAC (not ATRAC3 compatible) decoder and the result is the "fuzzy sounds" that are experienced. In pre-MDLP days it might not have been seen as a necessary inclusion on the part of designers--a mistake of course, in hindsight.