hi-md sp uploads via usb?

[zachg]

Can you only upload uncompressed audio from hi-md via the usb port? Descriptions of the product have led me to believe that this would be the case, but clarification is always clearer. Thanks.

[KrazyIvan]

PCM wav is uncompressed and, yes, it can be uploaded via USB. So can Hi-SP modes (256 kbps), and Hi-LP (I forget the compression rate).

SP mode is legacy compressed mode at 292 kbps. I have not tried it but I doubt it can be uploaded conventionally since you would have to be in NetMD (and using a 1st gen Hi-MD unit) mode to record it.

There are other ways of "uploading" that require third party software but I have not tried them.

[The Low Volta]

- all HiMD-recordings (i.e. in HiSP, HiLP or PCM) can be digitally uploaded through USB to PC (to mac only PCM and only with an M-model) and if the USB uploading fails, you can also rerecord digitally by playing the trach through the computer (through USB) and capturing the signal with TotalRecorder

- ALL other recordings (including LP/SP recordings made with HiMD-recorders) can't be uploaded to computer, they can be in realtime rerecorded on computer (PC and mac) digitally (with an MD-deck with optical out and comp with optical in) or analoguely (MD 'headphone/line out' to comp 'line/mic in')...this can be made easier with some third party software (like WinNetMD and with a similar feature in marcnet's brilliant HiMDRenderer) which uses the USB connection on NetMD-capable models to get track info and devide the rerecorded stuff on computer into correct tracks again, but this is still rerecording in realtime and not uploading.

The TR-method won't work either as you cannot play pre-HiMD recordings (including those made in pre-HiMD atrac-types on a 1st gen HiMD) through USB