Serial Copy Management System

[DaveNH700]

Hi,

I use my portable MD recorder (NH700) with a mic to make recordings of myself and friends playing musical instruments. I often want to make and edit compilations of these for various purposes including practicing along to. In some cases the copying may be greater than 2nd generation and so the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) stops me making a digital copy and I have to use the analouge line in/out. I understand why the SCMS is there for commercial copyrighted material sold in the shops but is there anyway round it for recordings you take yourself?

Thanks,

Dave.

[greenmachine]

You can remove DRM via this method if you record in one of the two atrac3+ modes, hi-sp or hi-lp - if you record in PCM, convert to WAV after uploading, which is a DRM-free format.

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=16088

Other than that, make sure to use a version of SonicStage equal to or greater than 3.2. A link to the latest version can be found here in the (software) forums. These newer versions are much more stable and less restrictive.

Edited January 26, 2007 by greenmachine

[DaveNH700]

- thanks, will they stay un-copyright protected if transfered back to the minidisc or is it just while they are on the PC?

Dave.

[A440]

Keep a copy outside SonicStage in .wav format (or .flac to save space)--on your hard drive, on CD, on DVD, etc. You can do anything you want with a .wav file.

The copy you download to another disc can't be uploaded again from that disc. But you can import the .wav file to SonicStage and download it to MDs--uncompressed (PCM) or compressed--as many times as you want.

You must have SonicStage 3.2 or above--the earlier ones were junk anyway.