DrSiddons Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 I came across this website while cruising the web for minidisc stuff.http://www.mironics.com/Has anyone had any experience with this?DrS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynos Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 I came across this website while cruising the web for minidisc stuff.http://www.mironics.com/Has anyone had any experience with this?DrSClick this search page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e1ghtyf1ve Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 This is a software/hardware remote control package utilizing the parallel port (sound transfer is analog only, as far as I can tell) for obsolete MD models. It is incompatible with Hi-MD units, where you want to use digital transfers anyway. That's the whole point of Hi-MD.As a side note, for me, Sonic Stage 3.2 works flawlessly, and is clearly much more ergonomic and polished than the WMP10/MTP horror our poor flash player friends have to put up with. "Plays for sure" yep, sure, uhuh. In fact, I feel more comfortable and less restricted with the versatile SS than iTunes. I can do many more things with my Hi-MD recorder than anything else out there right now, and looking at the market, for a long time to come.Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMountainEaters Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 I would adore an alternative program. Unlike the above user, I've tried sonic stages one through four, and have found all of them slow, unstable, inconvenient and counter-intuitive. I've tried the RealPlayer Minidisc software alternative, Adware Included and found it to be less unwieldy, but sadly limited in function, and, of course, bundled with Real. The whole OMG atrac thing is the working compromise between legality and an actually useful music player, which wouldn't be a problem but for it being cobbled together out of spare code and string. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 slow, unstable, inconvenient and counter-intuitive.That about sums it up, though I haven't had any problems with instability since version 3.2 . I just use SonicStage for uploading. For a computer player, I use Winamp or Quintessential. For ripping CDs to transfer to my iRiver T30 flash player--which is simply drag-and-drop, no WMP needed--I use EAC or iTunes (though I am definitely not a fan of iTunes, which is also slow to start up and keeps trying to cheat by adding qttask.exe and Itunes Helper into Startup). Sony seems wedded to SonicStage not only for its neglected minidisc but for its flash players, and I really don't understand why they don't overhaul the whole program and make it drag-and-drop. Are their electrical and mechanical engineers really so vastly far ahead of their software programmers? So it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Slow, inconvenient and counter-intuitive maybe. That said I haven't found the versions 4x unstable.I use Audiograbber & Lame for ripping to MP3.CDWave for recording on the line in.Media Monkey as my Player softwareSS for uploading my HiMD recordings, which I convert to WAV & MP3. I don't have a ATRAC library. My MP3 player is UMS/drag-and-drop so it doesn't need special software.I wish they'd add ATRAC and HiMD support to MediaMonkey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentek Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Website returns Site not found error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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