lnrmoss Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 I'm a bit of a technophobe and don't really understand a lot of the threads posted here. Can you help? My question is this:I have a Sony MD (model M2-R5C1)with optical line in and analogue headphone socket. How can I upload music to my PC, so that it recognises it as an input rather than just automatically playing it through the speakers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 (edited) You need to do a realtime transfer by connecting headphone-out of the MD to line-in of your soundcard. Details are here:http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070Feel free to ask further questions. By the way, i think the correct model no. should be MZ-R501. Edited April 24, 2006 by greenmachine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnrmoss Posted April 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 You need to do a realtime transfer by connecting headphone-out of the MD to line-in of your soundcard. Details are here:http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070Feel free to ask further questions. By the way, i think the correct model no. should be MZ-R501.Many thanks for the quick response. Of course, you're right, the model no does begin with MZ (I read it off the surface which had worn away) - you guys really know your stuff!I have a new PC with various software included. Is it likely that I can use one of these programmes or will I need to get hold of something like audacity? Is there somewhere I can download this software or is it best to get a CD (from the linked site) to upload?Ta,lnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 (edited) Audacity works great for this. You can download it (I believe) from the downloads section of the forums here. EDIT: Here is the link to the actual download site: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Edited April 24, 2006 by raintheory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnrmoss Posted April 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Audacity works great for this. You can download it (I believe) from the downloads section of the forums here. EDIT: Here is the link to the actual download site: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/Thanks. I've downloaded it. Next problem: I can't get it to record! I've connected my MD player from the headphone socket to the In socket on the PC's audio sockets. The music is playing through the speakers, but doesn't appear to be recording on Audacity (only low white noise records). Any thoughts on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Go to your soundcard's control panel and check if line-in recording is enabled and the level is set high enough.[attachmentid=1618] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnrmoss Posted April 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Go to your soundcard's control panel and check if line-in recording is enabled and the level is set high enough.[attachmentid=1618]Many thanks greenmachine et al. I'm impressed with how you can come up with these solutions, when all these questions must seem so dumb to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 We're here to help each other aren't we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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