geefe Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 I work as a professional singer. I used my sony mz-n505 since 2 years for playback tracks.Last week and one minute before the show, and already on the stage and ready to sing, I tried to play a disk recorded an our ago, and it said it was "BLANK"!!!!I couldn´t solve the problem, and because of this I lost $150 from my salary... I tried with all my disks after that but after recording, I just can´t listen to them because it says they are "BLANK" disks! I use SONIC STAGE 3.3, with WINDOWS XP PRO SP1.Could anyone please give me any solution for this problem? I have to sing again in 2 days, and I´ve been not able to make my NET MD work properly!Thanks very much for your help. bye.geefe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 The discs are propably not blank, but the unit might be dying and needs to be repaired/replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 the thing that it uses to record, a magnetic recording block, has died, It happens to all minidisc recorders eventually. All you can do is get a new recorder really or replace the part but that normally isnt worth the money as it can be very expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geefe Posted November 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 wow!that´s bad news...thanks for the help, if I need a replacement be sure I will never buy a Sony NetMD... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Welcome.Well, you purchased a rather low-end model that didn't have great construction to begin with. I would highly suggest you look into a more advanced model, such as the Hi-MD line. They have greater recording options and have the ability to upload your recordings made via microphone to computer steadfast via USB.As this is a unit issue, I will move it to the correct forum. I would also recommend you upgrade your computer to Service Pack 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ral-Clan Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 I work as a professional singer. I used my sony mz-n505 since 2 years for playback tracks.Last week and one minute before the show, and already on the stage and ready to sing, I tried to play a disk recorded an our ago, and it said it was "BLANK"!!!!I couldn´t solve the problem, and because of this I lost $150 from my salary... geefe.I'm very sorry to hear of your problem. I know the feeling, as I have performed music live, too. May I suggest that in the future you carry a second backup minidisc player (you can get cheap older ones on Ebay). The $30 or $40 you will spend on a backup player will be much less than the money you could lose from a catastrophic hardware failure such as the one you experienced....and because MD players are so small, it won't add much to the gear you have to lug around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDX-400 Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 I'm really hoping you have a problem with your optical pickup and not your OWH (overwrite head) because if you used all of the discs in there and you have an OWH problem that is erasing your discs? Then you may well have done the equivalent of an "Erase All" on all your discs! This is because the OWH has been known to fail in some units in such fashion that any disc you put it in it will blank the disc. Usually it happens when you try to record but I've heard of situations where it happens by just inserting the disc. Definitely you will need to pick up another unit (since it sounds like that is your only one) to see if it is just the pickup not reading the discs. Now if the discs have been blanked by your N505 because of an OWH problem then don't completely freak out, because the content can be recovered with TOC cloning, however you pretty much need a deck that can do TOC cloning to do this. There are a few portables that could do TOC cloning but not too many. Also not all decks can TOC clone.But I think it is more likely the discs are fine and will be read okay once you put them in another MD unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmindbender Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 I'm suddenly having a similar problem, I installed 3.3 the other day and all of the sudden when I transfer music it's listed in the transferred window, the tracks are listed on the disc but when I play it, no sound. I reconnect to the PC and suddenly a blank disc. This even happened to a disc that was playing fine last week, I added some more tracks and now the entire disc is blank.I find it hard to believe it's the unit, It worked fine a few days ago and it still plays other discs fine.Any suggestions? Or has anyone had a similar problem with 3.3.Going to downgrade to 3.2 again and see if that helps (damn, 3.3 was so much faster!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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