Pug Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 HI-MD has really thrown some recording confusion into my life..!Since the age of the internet my musical tastes have really changed and the majority of music is now recorded from the net or radio. There is a wealth of free music streams, radio stations, promos, live performances etc... (recording these to minidisc I know may be a bit of a grey area legally, but surely better than downloading full albums p2p) This is why I've stuck with minidisc, because it records very simply and very well. I have a rather tasty sounding Yamaha deck which is SP only, which coupled with my SP only portables I was very happy with. I was a very late adopter of a portable MDLP recorder - and that threw a bit of a spanner in the backwards compatibility works. Then very recently I bought a HI-MD 600D at a very cheap price, which was fun and a bit of a novelty for a while. But the size of the thing and the fact that if I record something in HI-MD mode on it, thats the only place I can listen to it are starting to put me off. Do I record streaming mp3's to Hi-MD, live shows from the radio to MDLP, personal mixes to SP? Put all my mixes onto old discs formated to HI-MD, buy more 1GB discs that I can only use in the pretty shoddy 600D... etc. Choices, choices!I thought Hi-Md was a good idea as I now have over 400 legacy discs and thought the improved media space would save me some physical space. I'm actually considering selling the HI-MD portable and just reverting back to MDLP. Legacy MD discs are so cheap especially 2nd hand, people are practically giving them away. I think the main problem I had was a lack of organisation with my MD's. this really started to put me off MD altogether. I had cases without discs, un-labbled discs, piles of them in draws etc. I have now organised these, erased anything I will never listen to, got some decent storage draws for them and feel much happier about, further recording more music to MD.Incidently sound quality has never been a factor for me, I find HI-LP acceptable for listening, and even LP4 isn't too bad to my ears.I'm not sure the purpose of this post, just a bit of a brain dump really.CheersPug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andysnap Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 Pug said: HI-MD has really thrown some recording confusion into my life..!. Then very recently I bought a HI-MD 600D at a very cheap price, which was fun and a bit of a novelty for a while. But the size of the thing and the fact that if I record something in HI-MD mode on it, thats the only place I can listen to it are starting to put me off. CheersPug←You could always set the 600 to play and record in NetMD mode, then you can use Hi-MD format as and when you feel like using it . . . . see Disc Mode in the options menu.As for your point about Hi-MD compatibility, surely this is a recording format like WMA, MP3 or AAC - after all, you can't play an iTunes AAC file on a WMA player! But at least you can play both NetMD and hi-MD on the NH600 Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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