Hi-MD Durability ?

[martin_il]

I have Two models of Hi-MD Minidisk Players (MZ-NH600D and MZ-NH800D), in spite that Sonic Stage is usually cumbersome to use; I transferred most of my cd's to 5 Different Hi-MD minidisks.

Everyone knows how long it takes : to record the CD onto your computer; get the titles for the whole CD and every song; Transfer the songs from Windows Media player to Sonic Stage; Finally to Convert and Transfer all songs from Sonic Stage into your Hi-MD minidisk.

Repeat all this process, 50, 100, 150 Times. It's just too much work to do over and over. When I bought my minidisk players, I remember One of the reasons for me to do it, it was the advantage that having your music stored in a disk, it meant that in case that the Player breaks down, your music is SAFE.

Well, I just discovered that after 2 Years of using my favorite recorded Hi-MD minidisk, the music file just disappeared !! When I tried to use it the last time, the player just displayed a message "No track" !!

How is it possible that this happened ?? I was thinking about buying a New generation Hi-MD player or HD Sony player, but with this current situation, I am Not sure about it anymore.

Am I the only One with this problem ?? How did this possibly happened ??

Thanks for your Attention and Help.

Greetings from Chicago.

[an0nym0usmuse]

If the specific minidisc is unreadable in another player, and if this is a minidisc that has been used repeatedly and often, it's possible that the TOC (table of contents) has become corrupted and unreadable. This is, unfortunately, a danger with any device that writes files to any medium, be it fixed computer drive, CD-RW, or even a flash drive.

It the minidisc is playable in another player, it might be a hardware issue with a specific Minidisc player.

I've used Minidisc for ten years, however, and even have a few discs that I write over numerous times. Over the years and with multiple blanks, I've experience a failure in only one disc (though I've had a couple of players/recorders begin to act squirrely). And rarely, I've had a disc or two that can't be played in a specific player. So, in my experience, the Minidisc format is the most durable and reliable I've ever worked with--certainly more reliable than your typical computer hard drive, and definitely more durable than CD-R's, which tend to deteriorate over time.

[ATELETRONICS]

were you doing a edit and did the battery die?

[A440]

Check and see if you can connect one of your units to the computer, open up SonicStage and have it read the disc. Occasionally a disc that won't be read by the unit will be readable with SonicStage.

By the way, I don't understand your elaborate CD-transferring process. You've been taking a lot of unnecessary steps.

You could import them directly into SonicStage, with track names from CDDB, if you wanted to keep ATRAC files on your computer. Or you could use SimpleBurner (came with your units, or downloadable from Downloads here). You insert the CD, SimpleBurner gets track names from CDDB and one click sends them directly onto the disc, without leaving copies on your computer. It's only about 5-10 minutes per CD.

Edited September 8, 2006 by A440

[Sparda]

lol A440 is right you wasted quite a bit of time on transfers. you know that you can directly use sonicstage to transfer songs from a cd to a md right? Oh and don't worry, most likely it just your TOC there is a trick to fix it, but i forgot it, go do a search here.

[The Low Volta]

@Sparda:

- SonicStage cannot transfer directly but SimpleBurner can (like A440 said)

- toc cloning works for (Net)MD but for HiMD the trick as you call it hasn't been found yet