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[dr5chrom]

New to MD.

I came upon a deck and found it was a good means of recording direct.

A little later on I used a Walkman to transfer some music files off a computer.

SonicStage converted the files, the music played fine.

When I took this MD disk to the big deck [sony], I get a TOC list and the deck acts like its playing, but i get NO SOUND... NOTHING.

..plays on the Walkman fine.. ??

If I record on that same MD disk ON THE DECK, I get audio just fine, "on the deck & the Walkman"

This issue makes '0' sense. Any ideas??

[dr5chrom]

..ill play the ignorant card. The NetMD looks familiar on the walkman side. I thought the minidisc format was all the same [ ATRAC ].

am I wrong about this? The walkman doesnt record in the ATRAC format?

Ill also guess I have a lower-end deck [JE320]. Is there a deck that is better, or are they all about the same?

thanks, regards

dw

Let me guess: the deck is SP only whereas the Walkman is NetMD MDLP and you recorded something in MDLP from the computer...

[Azureal]

I agree with the wizard, you have probably recorded an MDLP mode bit rate using SonicStage and your Deck is only capable of SP mode.

SP mode is 80 minutes per disk at 292KBps and has much better sound than LP2 (132KBps) or LP4 (64KBps) MDLP modes.

They are all ATRAC, SP is the original, the MDLP modes are newer and will not play on an older device.

There are newer, more capable decks which will play and record MDLP, they are almost always used and readily available on eBay for a price.

[sfbp]

MDLP is a different technology (twice as much audio on the same disk, and concomitantly lower bitrate) that the 320 doesn't support.

Simple as that. NetMD defaults to MDLP (LP2 in fact unless you tell it otherwise). There's a special option in SonicStage to generate SP disks that will play in your 320. However the bit rate will never be the same as "true" SP because they simply pass LP2 and pad the data with blanks before writing to the disk.

[dr5chrom]

..I see.. thanks for all the info!