Most Painless way to get Mp3 from your old MDs using MZ-RH1

[l2ob]

Hey guys.

im sure this has been asked before, and yes i did search Google and here. but i cant seem to find a easy way to get Mp3s out of my old MDs.

long story short, my 250ish minidisc are the only physical media i have from my teenage years and i want really badly to convert them to MP3. since a lot of it is olschool Drum&Bass Jungle that had low print. i literally cant re-find them on CD or download. so this is really my only option to get them off the MD format.

after stalking ebay for a few weeks and finally getting a MZ-RH1. im ready to roll. i have successfully installed the Modded version of SonicStage thats hosted on this form (thanks for that BTW) and im able to rip from my the MD player to my PC. only issue is im not finding a easy method for getting MP3s out of the deal.

i have it set to convert to .wav etc and then i convert those files with Cool edit Pro into MP3s. it takes for ever.... then i have to use MP3tag to re-add the metadata etc...

am i missing something? is there a easier way?

i did try to make a "Mp3 audio CD" from the ripped files in SS but it always gives me an error. if that worked id be in heaven. i also tried making a "audio CD" (also would be a answer) but it loses the metadata and the track separation is off by bit.

thanks for any help you can give.

[trott3r]

That is the same way i do it.

Do you have auto convert to wav on import option ticked in SS?

I use foobar player to convert the wav to flac myself

[l2ob]

ahh ok.

thanks for the quick reply.

yea i have that box checked. i open the .wav in cool edit pro and then just save the file as a Mp3 @ 320/44100.

then re-enter the Metadata with MP3tag (awesome lil program).

well thanks. ill check out foobar.

[sfbp]

There's a perfectly nice ATRAC->MP3 converter that Sony gives away.

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?upd_id=2971

Works pretty good, and keeps all your metadata.

[l2ob]

There's a perfectly nice ATRAC->MP3 converter that Sony gives away.

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?upd_id=2971

Works pretty good, and keeps all your metadata.

NICE!!!!

checking this out now

[Azureal]

There's a perfectly nice ATRAC->MP3 converter that Sony gives away.

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?upd_id=2971

Works pretty good, and keeps all your metadata.

Thanks Stephen!

I had forgotten about this great tool. I downloaded it last night and did a conversion of my ATRAC library. I still personally prefer the sound of ATRAC but I have been playing with streaming music from my Kindle via Bluetooth to my HiFi, just for fun.

[l2ob]

IT totally was the answer i was looking for THANK YOU!!!

i have one more question that i hope doesn't drive this thread into a people butting heads....

for Archiving purposes (from MDs) which is better PCM or Atrac?

i tried getting my awnser here:

but i failed to find it.... basically what im asking is does the Atrac format keep the MD original recording as close to what was captured on the MD? i mean in a way PCM is a different language, right? does the conversion become "lossy" in anyway? Bigger isnt always better? as Atrac has a higher Bit width per kbps right?

sorry if its a n00bish question. i just recently pulled these MDs out of storage and until just now have been pretty uneducated about the technical side of things. i just ripped 1/2 my MDs using RCA cable till i got a CD player with Optical out. most of that was done in the 90s before i had internet etc.

thanks for the help. i find it awesome that this forum is still active, not to mention the amount of stuff ive learned in the last week reading on here!

[JMay]

In my case, I'm perfectly happy with taking the WAVs, and converting them to MP3 with Audacity (it's free, btw).