Help with MZ-R700

[jeanc]

I have an old MZ-R700 and I listen to disks on a regular basis, but have not recorded anything in a number of years. I have my optical cable with the MD-PORT DG2 that I used to use. I have plugged it into my PC - I'm running Windows XP. I can get the sound settings to show they are using DG2, but the MD player says "no signal". I need to create a disk for Monday and I'm leaving town tomorrow. Can you please help? Oh, my playback mechanisms on my PC - I have Windows Media Player v11 or itunes. Thanks!

[ZosoIV]

Is there even a "red light" shining at the end of your optical cable? It sounds like your PC is not even outputting audio through the S/PDIF cable is your MD is saying "no signal." You may have to play around some more with the sound properties in Windows - and make sure that in something like iTunes, the volume slider is all the way up. Also, try playing the audio in a different program entirely (like Foobar 2000), as iTunes had problems with my optical out if I remember correctly.

[jeanc]

I do have the red light on the optical cable. I checked that a couple of times and had to unplug the USB once to get it to come back on, but it has been on.

[ZosoIV]

OK - another possibility is that your soundcard is outputting something other than 16-bit audio at 32, 44.1 or 48kHz. For example, if you try to feed the recorder 24-bit audio, a compressed bitstream, or even 16-bit signals at the wrong sampling rate, the recorder won't recognize it.