Unretrievable HI-MD Data

[JohanusK]

Hello. Last night i recorded our acoustic set and was going to make a demo of it using a Sony HI-MD MZ-NH1. So when i got home i listened to the whole 1.5 hours and put in track markings as they were appropriate. Well, today when i go to transfer them to my computer Track 9 wouldn't go, and on the mini-disc it said "can'tPLAY." Our music is highly improvisational and that was the song i wrote and i feel like i've really lost something special, so any help on how to retreive this track would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and have a nice day.

- Johan

[bobt]

The general consensus with recordings is to do the editing with sonicstage after importing. Can you erase the track marks and try again? If that doesn't work you may have to record it on realtime then re-edit.

Good luck,

Bob

[big_raji]

Hello. Last night i recorded our acoustic set and was going to make a demo of it using a Sony HI-MD MZ-NH1. So when i got home i listened to the whole 1.5 hours and put in track markings as they were appropriate. Well, today when i go to transfer them to my computer Track 9 wouldn't go, and on the mini-disc it said "can'tPLAY." Our music is highly improvisational and that was the song i wrote and i feel like i've really lost something special, so any help on how to retreive this track would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and have a nice day.

- Johan

I've never uploaded any recordings, but the most common piece of advice I've seen is to upgrade to SonicStage 3.2 IMMEDIATELY.

[greenmachine]

The general consensus with recordings is to do the editing with sonicstage after importing. Can you erase the track marks and try again? If that doesn't work you may have to record it on realtime then re-edit.

Good luck,

Bob

It's usually exactly the removal of track marks that ruins it.

[raintheory]

Sorry to hear of your loss... I am a highly improvisational artist as well and have had the exact same situation. Unfortunately there really isn't a known way to retrieve the data or audio once it is corrupted in this way. I have gotten into the paranoid habit of running a line from the headphone out on my RH10 to the line in on my N707, and recording on the older MD too just in case anything funny happens.

Good advice, as stated before... Use SSv3.2, upload and then do any editing. and if you really want to be sure, you can always playback and record in realtime before you actually do the upload.

Good info here... http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7436

BTW... Would love to hear some of your material, PM me if you have any online somewhere, or if you want to set up a trade sometime.

Edited September 26, 2005 by raintheory

[A440]

Definitely upgrade to 3.2 so you can upload more than once.

And once you do:

I have had tracks that would not play on the MD player but would play through Sonicstage. Try connecting via USB and using Sonicstage just for playback--not upload--and see if it will play the track through the computer. Then you can record it with Total Recorder.

[JohanusK]

Thank you sooo much. I've been tearing my hair out over this. So i guess the plan is to upgrade to sonic stage 3.2 and get total recorder. again, thank you and have a nice day!