Uploading songs to Mac

[musichouse]

I find MD's very unstable. About 1 in every 15 or so MD's goes bad (read error, toc error, cannot play, cannot record, cannnot record or play) after they are full of recorded music. In many cases there were 40 to 50 songs recorded off the internet on 1G MD. YIKES! It seems the only way to protect myself is to upload a HiMD to my Mac and then if a MD goes bad I can simply dump the music back onto a new MD. The music I record is all digital. I have tried to trasfer my music digitally from one MD to another one but Sony blocks this. Can I upload music from my HiMD to my Mac, then add it to my iTunes Library, convert it to MP3 so as to take up much less space, then if need be convert it back to WAV and then load it back to a new HiMD? If this is all possible will the recording still be digital? Thanks for any help or advice you can give.

[Strungup]

I find MD's very unstable. About 1 in every 15 or so MD's goes bad (read error, toc error, cannot play, cannot record, cannnot record or play) after they are full of recorded music. In many cases there were 40 to 50 songs recorded off the internet on 1G MD. YIKES! It seems the only way to protect myself is to upload a HiMD to my Mac and then if a MD goes bad I can simply dump the music back onto a new MD. The music I record is all digital. I have tried to trasfer my music digitally from one MD to another one but Sony blocks this. Can I upload music from my HiMD to my Mac, then add it to my iTunes Library, convert it to MP3 so as to take up much less space, then if need be convert it back to WAV and then load it back to a new HiMD? If this is all possible will the recording still be digital? Thanks for any help or advice you can give.

Dude , the RH1 uses MD Transfer 2.0 on the mac , not SonicStage.

MD Transfer is two button simple. Anything you record in HiMD Mode whether it be in HILP ,HiSP, or PCM will be uploaded as a WAV file Download "Switch " (Switch Plus you have to pay for , plain Switch is a Freebie) use Switch to convert instead of Itunes. ( that way you can Keep the stuff seperate from ITunes, and just drag what you want ie. finished products ,instead of stuff your still working on.)

You can drag MP3's into MD transfer and load them to the rH1 as is , no need to convert them .( you wouldnt want to once you have converted something to mp3 you have erased not compressed over half the data, it isnt recovereable)

Just read my stats at the bottom , on a Macbook soon to get the Pro ...Next month YAY!

[musichouse]

Dude , the RH1 uses MD Transfer 2.0 on the mac , not SonicStage.

MD Transfer is two button simple. Anything you record in HiMD Mode whether it be in HILP ,HiSP, or PCM will be uploaded as a WAV file Download "Switch " (Switch Plus you have to pay for , plain Switch is a Freebie) use Switch to convert instead of Itunes. ( that way you can Keep the stuff seperate from ITunes, and just drag what you want ie. finished products ,instead of stuff your still working on.)

You can drag MP3's into MD transfer and load them to the rH1 as is , no need to convert them .( you wouldnt want to once you have converted something to mp3 you have erased not compressed over half the data, it isnt recovereable)

Just read my stats at the bottom , on a Macbook soon to get the Pro ...Next month YAY!

Thanks for your help. I wasn't using SonicStage but MD Transfer 1.0. I now downloaded 2.0. It looks like it is much easier to download. Before the music is downloaded to my MAC the files all read: Codex-ATRAC3plus, Bitrate-256 kbps. If these files are automatically converted to WAV when downloaded are they still digital or has the quality been diminished? It sounds if I then convert the WAV file to MP3 then at some later date load them onto a blank HiMD the quality will have been greatly diminished and it would no longer be a digital file. Could you clarify this for me? Many thanks.

Dude , the RH1 uses MD Transfer 2.0 on the mac , not SonicStage.

MD Transfer is two button simple. Anything you record in HiMD Mode whether it be in HILP ,HiSP, or PCM will be uploaded as a WAV file Download "Switch " (Switch Plus you have to pay for , plain Switch is a Freebie) use Switch to convert instead of Itunes. ( that way you can Keep the stuff seperate from ITunes, and just drag what you want ie. finished products ,instead of stuff your still working on.)

You can drag MP3's into MD transfer and load them to the rH1 as is , no need to convert them .( you wouldnt want to once you have converted something to mp3 you have erased not compressed over half the data, it isnt recovereable)

Just read my stats at the bottom , on a Macbook soon to get the Pro ...Next month YAY!

Thanks for your help. I wasn't using SonicStage but MD Transfer 1.0. I now downloaded 2.0. It looks like it is much easier to download. Before the music is downloaded to my MAC the files all read: Codex-ATRAC3plus, Bitrate-256 kbps. If these files are automatically converted to WAV when downloaded are they still digital or has the quality been diminished? It sounds if I then convert the WAV file to MP3 then at some later date load them onto a blank HiMD the quality will have been greatly diminished and it would no longer be a digital file. Could you clarify this for me? Many thanks.

[Strungup]

I did clarify it ,

Once you convert a WAV file to mp3 you have killed it .The MP3 is what it is A crunched up over half of data deleted sound file .

you DO NOT want to convert an mp3 to wav , all you will get is a noisy wav . make a seperate folder for wav files (external HDD) put the mp3 on the main drive.

the RH1 plays mp3 as they are , no need to convert.

[raintheory]

And remember, lossless compression is your friend!