RobA Posted November 5, 2005 Report Share Posted November 5, 2005 (edited) A friend of mine is offering me a MZ-N505 and 4 blank discs for 20 bucks and I've been lookin for a good deal on a backup player. My question is, if I have a standard disc formatted to hi-md or a hi-md disc recorded in lp4, will it play on a netmd unit? If not, what do I do to make the the disc is in netmd mode and not hi-md. Edited November 5, 2005 by RobA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinko Posted November 5, 2005 Report Share Posted November 5, 2005 No it will not play.A standard disc formatted to HiMD will not play on a NetMD-only device.A HiMD disc loaded with LP4 contents will not play on a NetMD-only device.If I remember correctly from my old NetMD player, if you take a regular disc which has been formatted in HiMD mode and then you format it using the NetMD player, it will be compatible with NetMD.However: if you take a HiMD (1GB) disc, the NetMD player will not recognize the disc. There's nothing you can do about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobA Posted November 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2005 No it will not play.A standard disc formatted to HiMD will not play on a NetMD-only device.A HiMD disc loaded with LP4 contents will not play on a NetMD-only device.If I remember correctly from my old NetMD player, if you take a regular disc which has been formatted in HiMD mode and then you format it using the NetMD player, it will be compatible with NetMD.However: if you take a HiMD (1GB) disc, the NetMD player will not recognize the disc. There's nothing you can do about that.So I just stick the formatted disc in the player and load up sonicstage and it will format it for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinko Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 It should. As long as it's a 60, 74 or 80 minutes disc, SonicStage (or Simple Burner) should be able to reformat it to NetMD once your NetMD player is connected and the disc inserted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 (edited) I have made a few discs in NetMD mode using my RH10 that were playable on older LP decks. On the transfer screen in SonicStage there is a drop-down box where you can choose HiMD or NetMD. I don't think you need to use a NetMD recorder to make the discs. Edited November 6, 2005 by raintheory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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