Help Recovering Live Recording

[mikeinmoon]

I am a new minidisk user. I recently purchased a MZ-NH900 and I just love it. I did something wrong while recording part of a live concert. Most of the tracks converted fine from PCM to WAV. However, I must have inadvertenly hit the wrong button and recorded part of it in NetMD.

I was recording using an 80 minute non-HiMD disk. I'm using the lastest SonicStage version. I didn't have any problems with the other parts of the concert. The suspect files are visable on the disk while using the recorder and when connected to my computer using SonicStage. However, the Net-MD option is highlighted. I cannot get the files to play on the recorder stand-alone in Hi-MD or MD mode, or when connected to the computer. When I try to switch to Hi-MD using SonicStage, I get the prompt that this will reformat the disk. I would hate to lose this recording. Help Please!

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[dex Otaku]

I would hate to lose this recording. Help Please!

There are two possibilities as to why this happened.

First is that you had the recorder in netMD mode. It doesn't sound like this is the case.

Second is that you had previously-recorded audio on the disc already, in a legacy encoding format [MDLP modes - SP, LP2, LP4]. If the legacy MD you pop into a 1st-generation HiMD already has MDLP audio on it, it will continue recording to the disc in netMD mode.

Whichever was the case, your solutions are either to use a MDLP deck with optical out feeding an optical in on your computer/sound card, or to go the old-fashioned analogue route. There are stickied topics on doing just this in at least 3 places on the fora here [such as the netMD forum], so please look there for advice.

The bottom line is that if your recording was made in netMD mode [i.e. legacy MD/LP], there is currently no way to upload that audio with SonicStage. The analogue route will be your most likely solution.