reefbeef Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 When connecting the RH1 to PC with a legacy MD in it, playback is only through the headphone out of the RH1, not the PC speakers or optical out.This prohibits two things I was hoping to do:1. Playback via optical out of PC to optical in on home stereo.2. Paranoiacs Method of real time digital uploading.See small print on page 18 of manual.Just FYI... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumz Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 When connecting the RH1 to PC with a legacy MD in it, playback is only through the headphone out of the RH1, not the PC speakers or optical out.This prohibits two things I was hoping to do:1. Playback via optical out of PC to optical in on home stereo.2. Paranoiacs Method of real time digital uploading.See small print on page 18 of manual.Just FYI...Are you able to play back Hi-MD discs via USB > PC optical out > home stereo?Legacy MD is not an issue for me because decks with optical out exist. They do not exist for Hi-MD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 I was going to mention the Decks with optical-out... you beat me to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefbeef Posted July 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Are you able to play back Hi-MD discs via USB > PC optical out > home stereo?Legacy MD is not an issue for me because decks with optical out exist. They do not exist for Hi-MD.RH1 with Hi-MD inserted, connected to PC, press play in SS and a digital signal is sent to the optical out. This has been the case with Hi-MD before the RH1 (my NH1 did this). I guess I gotta just start trusting SS and using the tools that are available. I'll try uploading a less important recording first. From there, I can play .wav files and get the optical out from the PC to the burr-brown DAC's on my Denon amp and let them work their magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefbeef Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 OK. I'm in. Tracks recorded in LP2 were uploaded and SS was able to play them without any gaps between them (at the track mark). Is this correct, or is the gap just inaudible to me?Also, I was able to edit the tracks on the disc itself after uploading. Total freedom as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sevkatia Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 OK. I'm in. Tracks recorded in LP2 were uploaded and SS was able to play them without any gaps between them (at the track mark). Is this correct, or is the gap just inaudible to me?Also, I was able to edit the tracks on the disc itself after uploading. Total freedom as far as I know.Total freedom? Try playing your tracks on another machine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Total freedom? Try playing your tracks on another machine...If the File Conversion tool doesn't work to remove DRM from those uploaded tracks--and I have no idea whether it does or not--then wouldn't converting them to .wav or using Hi-MD Renderer offer total freedom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sevkatia Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 If the File Conversion tool doesn't work to remove DRM from those uploaded tracks--and I have no idea whether it does or not--then wouldn't converting them to .wav or using Hi-MD Renderer offer total freedom?Technically it would. But what if you want to keep your tracks in original format but move them to another computer? So, if your recording is in HI-SP, for example, you will need to convert them to .WAV then back to HI-SP just in order to move them to another machine. And the process of decodind and then re-encoding will degrade the qualitiy of original recording. All I wanted to do is to keep my own recorngs in the original format without loosing recording quality - and that proved to be impossible... Thank you SONY. Again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogville Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Technically it would. But what if you want to keep your tracks in original format but move them to another computer? So, if your recording is in HI-SP, for example, you will need to convert them to .WAV then back to HI-SP just in order to move them to another machine. And the process of decodind and then re-encoding will degrade the qualitiy of original recording. All I wanted to do is to keep my own recorngs in the original format without loosing recording quality - and that proved to be impossible... Thank you SONY. Again.It is sad and disappointing to know it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Hi-SP can easily be backed up/played back on another computer by stripping the files from DRM as mentioned here: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=16088 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sevkatia Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Will test this in few minutes... Have too many computers at hand;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sevkatia Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Hi-SP can easily be backed up/played back on another computer by stripping the files from DRM as mentioned here: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=16088Have to admit: it worked. First things first - thank you. But talking about convinience: why did it added DRM to my own recordings and then looked on the the net for the the license? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 (edited) what's this about the RH1? can it digitally transfer my old MD (recorded on an old MZ-N1) to my PC?!?! please tell me they finally implemented this i'm sure this has been asked, but i have to be sure. if my hopes are true, then someone needs to update the "A Guide To Hi-MD Uploading." sticky Edited July 24, 2006 by lefty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 what's this about the RH1? can it digitally transfer my old MD (recorded on an old MZ-N1) to my PC?!?! please tell me they finally implemented this i'm sure this has been asked, but i have to be sure. if my hopes are true, then someone needs to update the "A Guide To Hi-MD Uploading." sticky The RH1 can upload SP/MONO/LP2/LP4/Hi-SP/Hi-LP/PCM using SonicStage. SP/MONO recordings can't be uploaded natively and must be either transcoded to Hi-SP or uploaded diretly as PCM.The only limitation to uploading with the RH1 is that if the Legacy format tracks originated from a computer (i.e. Sonicstage/Simpleburner) they cannot be uploaded.Also, using a Macintosh you can only upload Hi-MD formats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1kyle Posted July 28, 2006 Report Share Posted July 28, 2006 Technically it would. But what if you want to keep your tracks in original format but move them to another computer? So, if your recording is in HI-SP, for example, you will need to convert them to .WAV then back to HI-SP just in order to move them to another machine. And the process of decodind and then re-encoding will degrade the qualitiy of original recording. All I wanted to do is to keep my own recorngs in the original format without loosing recording quality - and that proved to be impossible... Thank you SONY. Again.It's absolutely NO problem these days to copy Non-DRM'ed music to another computer.Even before the RH1 this method works (and still works).Use the Sonic Backup tool to backup your library.Now restore it on the target machine. --Note if you do it this way any library existing on the target machine will be deleted so check first.After restore the music is in the same format as it was on the source machine.There are other ways as well but assuming you are using Windows machines then this method will work and has worked as far back as SS 3.1Cheers-K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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