Thoroughly confused MZ-RH10 buyer but old time MD user

[trott3r]

Hello,

Reading through the FAQs and the forums I have managed to get confused.

I have a sony mz-rh10 HiMD bought as my last new MD portable.

I have used Minidisc since the late 90s starting with the old jb920 deck to

record my vinyl. I recorded from the turntable to minidisc through its

analogue rec input.

I now want to transfer my vinyl recordings on MD to the windows XP box

in FLAC format or other lossless format like WAV.

Reading the forums it seems to say i can use sonicstage to upload NetMD

using SonicStage 4.2.02 and deselect the DRM protection.

Elsewhere it seems to say i cant use my RH10 to upload to the PC leaving me confused.

Is this because Netmd format is a different format to SP analogue recording?

Looking at the manual It looks like i can upload recordings using SS and burn it to audio CD.

I could then rip the cd into FLAC using Exact audio copier.

Should i stick with the latter idea?

I want the transfer to have no loss before i start converting things.

thanks for your time

Martin N

[KJ_Palmer]

Sadly an MZ-RH10 can't upload your SP recordings to PC - only the RH1 (or M200) can do this. Perhaps you were thinking of purchasing the RH1 and ended up with an RH10 instead, which is unfortunate...?

[trott3r]

Sadly an MZ-RH10 can't upload your SP recordings to PC - only the RH1 (or M200) can do this. Perhaps you were thinking of purchasing the RH1 and ended up with an RH10 instead, which is unfortunate...?

Could i use the burn to cd-r option instead then rather than the file format transfer?

Martin N

[bobt]

Other than an RH1 or M200, your only option is real time recording through your sound card. If you did any recordings on the 10, you should be able to upload them

Bob

[trott3r]

Other than an RH1 or M200, your only option is real time recording through your sound card. If you did any recordings on the 10, you should be able to upload them

Bob

So the recording to CDR that the manual says will not work?

Would i be able to record from Netmd to the rh10 in HiMD away from the PC

and upload that?

Martin N

[kino170878]

Your JB920 deck will have a digital output. Buy (or borrow) a CD recorder deck, either consumer type or professional (the latter you would need to ignore the SCMS copy protection, but the consumer one should be fine since you recorded originally through analogue thereby allowing one digital copy to be made). Then just hook up the MD unit to the CD unit and hit the sync record. It will copy digitally with near-bit perfect resolution. It's real-time of course but very straightforward. You can then burn the CD to a PC later on.