chimpy Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Hi Everyone.I've had a Sony minidisc hi-fi for years now and have over 500 albums on minidisc. My wife recently bought a Sony MWA1000 MP3 player and is now wanting to copy tracks from my minidiscs to the MP3 player. I'd be grateful if anyone you tell me if: a) this is possible how to go about it as I have no ideaAny help would be much appreciated.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 What model MiniDisc player/recorder do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy Posted June 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 What model MiniDisc player/recorder do you have?this oneThanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunster Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Hi Everyone.I've had a Sony minidisc hi-fi for years now and have over 500 albums on minidisc. My wife recently bought a Sony MWA1000 MP3 player and is now wanting to copy tracks from my minidiscs to the MP3 player. I'd be grateful if anyone you tell me if: a) this is possible how to go about it as I have no ideaAny help would be much appreciated.ThanksIt all depends in what equipment you have and if its in MD/Hi-MD. As you said you have a hi-fi, there probably isn't going to be any easy round this without more expensive of finances.Obviously, you can record all those 500 albums in real-time from the output of your hi-fi into the line-in of your soundcard. But this is going to take a HUGE amount of time.The only practical way would be purchasing the new MZ-RH1 hi-MD Portable Player/Recorder. If your music is in SP/MDLP, there's a possibility you can upload them directly to your PC. But, the only caution is if you've made those minidiscs using the NetMD USB method of recording it to your discs. You may not have done though.Give us more details, and we'll be able to help further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy Posted June 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 None of my discs are recorded in MDLP format. My hi-fi is an older unit, pre 2000, I added a link to it in my previous post if it helps.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 With your current setup the only option I beleive would be to run a line-out from your MiniDisc to your computer and use a sound editing/recording program like the free Audacity to record the tracks in Real-Time. Then you can convert them to Mp3 and transfer to your Mp3 player. The new MZ-RH1 will allow you to actually upload the tracks faster than realtime to your PC, but as it is a very new unit it will cost you. If you do any live recording of concerts, etc it would probably be a good investment and would definitely save alot of time getting your tracks to your PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy Posted June 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 what's the sound quality like using that method, does it depend on the sound card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Yeah I guess it would depend on the soundcard to an extent. You would also inherently lose some quality from the analog connection and of course from transcoding (Atrac>WAV>Mp3). Might be worth doing a couple test recordings to see what the end result sounds like.What type of PC/Soundcard would you be using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpy Posted June 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 a low spec one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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