minidisc to my PC's hard drive.............still not working.

[deejayryan]

What is the best way to record music from my old minidiscs onto my hard-drive IN STEREO?

I just have a regular desktop home PC 2.5G, Windows XP......my minidisc player is a portable sony (MZ-S1). I have a cord pluged into MD's headpnone jack (IN) and the other end is in the line-OUT jack on the back of PC. people have told me to use Audacity to record but it comes out all scratchy and is ONLY IN MONO. Please tell me what I need to do to make a STEREO (not neccesarily digital) transfer of music from my minidiscs a simply put the music onto my pc's hard-drive. I also have a home component Minidisc player through my stereo receiver, it's all the way across the room. I just thought I could just hook up my portable minidisc player to make it easier. But would the bigger MD player through the stereo system work better? Or what? Please let me know cables, software, what I am missing here...........anything?

Thanks.

[spindizzy]

people have told me to use Audacity to record but it comes out all scratchy and is ONLY IN MONO. Please tell me what I need to do to make a STEREO .....

Audacity can start up configured to mono, there are places to change it to stereo (try File->Preferences->Audio i/o - at least that's where it is under Linux) - I expect someone else can help with the scratchy - can you set the output on that model to Line out rather than headphone? and some soundcards have seperate line in/mic inputs - line out from the MD to line in on the sound card would probably be best.

... oh yes, check the input levels in audacity - if you click on the downarrow by the microphone icon (top rightish) the drop down menu has a monitor input setting. So you can set levels before you start recording.

Chris

Edited April 28, 2006 by spindizzy

[rayzray]

i think you should use your Deck from across the room; IMO; and either run a long good grade audio cable to the PC from it; or just bring it over.

the scratchyness to me sounds like the volume is set wrong; sometimes you get scratchyness in digital recording with mismatched 44 & 48's; but you are doing analog. mmmm

you REALLY need to be doing "line-out" to "line-in" and not headphone jacks and this and that.

i use Roxio and it's fine. but; i have had proper soundcard put in my PC.

you can't always go for milk and eggs at the gas station!

[Ral-Clan]

What is the best way to record music from my old minidiscs onto my hard-drive IN STEREO?

I just have a regular desktop home PC 2.5G, Windows XP......my minidisc player is a portable sony (MZ-S1). I have a cord pluged into MD's headpnone jack (IN) and the other end is in the line-OUT jack on the back of PC.

Try plugging it into the LINE-IN jack on the back of your PC, not the LINE-OUT jack.