wlowry Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Hi all, I have a few thousand Minidiscs recorded about 10 years ago that I need to convert to PCM. In order to speed this up I have bought several RH1s. Has anyone tried running several versions of SonicStage at once before? I imagine that it will be difficult if not impossible! Thanks William Lowry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 I don't think it will speed up anything since you are limited by the speed of USB transfer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avrin Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 All OpenMG programs are single-instance only. And it is not recommended to connect several units at once. A solution may be to run several VMware virtual Windows PCs with a SonicStage installed on each, and with a different USB port connected to each of those. But I'm still not sure whether this will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlowry Posted October 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 All OpenMG programs are single-instance only. And it is not recommended to connect several units at once. A solution may be to run several VMware virtual Windows PCs with a SonicStage installed on each, and with a different USB port connected to each of those. But I'm still not sure whether this will work. Thanks for all the advice. I didn't think about the limitations of USB transfer speeds before but it is obvious now. I think the 2 choices might be to run several virtual workstations or build a few mini pc's that can be connected to shared storage. The fact that the RH1s do not show up as drives on my PC make me wonder if it would be possible to connect several drives to one PC and not have them interfere with each other. Thanks William Lowry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avrin Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 NetMD units (including the RH1 with a legacy disc inserted) never show up as drives. But, I'm afraid, that they will interfere with each other at the driver level, when connected to a single PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 In many ways it would be technologically easier to have an array of decks with opti-out than an array of RH1's. The problem would be titling and subsequent processing but that wouldn't be so bad because you could offset the work by starting (changing over) a new one every five minutes. But even then you have a bottleneck because who knows of a computer with multiple toslink (Coax) sound cards each with SPDIF inputs????? All sorts of nerd-dream-able visions spring up. The #linux-minidisc project may eventually be able to help you. I've been a bit busy so I haven't kept up with things over there - but it's possible that the technology there won't have the same restrictions as MagicGate does on the PC. They say they can upload SP and LP2/4 via USB now, but still only on the RH1, since the firmware on "real" NetMD devices doesn't allow it. There's a scripted way (for "real" NetMD), but only analogue (out of the headphone socket, sigh). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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