wlexxx Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 is there any way to transfer minidisc to PC including track divisions and names from the original minidisc? does that renderer thingy do that? how ? what else [MD hardware" ] do i need? they are NOT Hi-MD, just either mono or maybe one of the compressed modes stereo.... all recorded on SHARP units of earlyish vintage thx wle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Don't hate me - but you need an MZ-RH1 (MZ-M200 is the same thing). No ands ifs or buts. They're expensive these days, start at about $400. Note that this will NOT work with music that was transferred from the PC in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobby30plus Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Some people who have RH1 can do the transfer for you. http://olx.pl/oferta/przegrywanie-minidisc-CID619-ID6kseN.html I do it, but I keep the discs in return for the transfer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlexxx Posted November 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Don't hate me - but you need an MZ-RH1 (MZ-M200 is the same thing). No ands ifs or buts. They're expensive these days, start at about $400. Note that this will NOT work with music that was transferred from the PC in the first place. i was hoping to avoid what i perceive as the sonic stage / DRM nightmare.... is there ANY way around that? i could buy pro level decks if necessary wle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Nope. The SP codec does not exist on Pc. Sonic stage is actually quite decent and with the right drivers works fine with w7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlexxx Posted November 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2014 Nope. The SP codec does not exist on Pc. Sonic stage is actually quite decent and with the right drivers works fine with w7. will i lose ''rights'' to my own recorded music? wle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted November 25, 2014 Report Share Posted November 25, 2014 Nope. Provided you check in with us as you proceed. We'll advise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlexxx Posted November 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2014 sorry to be ignorant, but are you serious? who is "us"? sony ? so it is possible to mess up and lose your own recordings? wle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted November 26, 2014 Report Share Posted November 26, 2014 I apologize for being cryptic. You can read some of my 4,813 posts before deciding whether or not to take what I say as true, but I sense that you are ready to blame me (for something that I haven't done or said - yet). Of course you can mess up your own recordings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlexxx Posted November 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 ok thanks, i believe you i wish there was some way to try this hands on but there seem to be only about 3 people in the world doing it what i don;t want is a bunch of bugs and traps and complex nonintuitive operations, hacks, linux i just want it to be simple, easy, and leave my source material unaltered how close is it to that? is there some guide already written for doing this? i see plenty of stuff that says basically .. .."connect the analog L and R to a sound card, make a big wave or mp3 file, then enter all the track names and divide it all into tracks by hand" that is too hard wle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 just download your music (torrent files) and copy it again on MDs cannot do that however with your field recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 Once you've got an RH1, it's quite easy except: 1. The are software setup challenges. Connected with: a. having other NetMD devices previously attached. b. increased security due to all the hackers in the world c. 64-bit Windows. Those are things we spend a lot of time helping people with. 2. The uploaded files have to be decrypted (Sony gives you the tool for it, you just don't realise they did, and it's foolproof). It's important to do this before the next time someone does a System Restore, or (worse) new install of Windows. THEN you can lose the uploaded files. You'll never lose the original MDs. 3. There IS one known major bug in SonicStage that can affect your (own) recordings - if you try to delete more than one unlabeled track from your legacy MD recordings using usb, game over. Solution to this is always label everything ASAP, even if the label is one character long. Then they can be deleted just fine in any combination. The only other non-intuitive thing to watch out for is that you are better to upload in compressed (ATRAC3+) form than in WAV. The former allows you to keep the metadata properly. It's also, sonically, as good or better than 16-bit WAV, believe it or not. You may have to reconvert later if that's what you want to do, but Sound Forge is (since version 9 or so) sold by Sony and will do almost any conversion you (later) need, provided you decrypt the files (#2 above). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlexxx Posted November 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 just download your music (torrent files) and copy it again on MDs cannot do that however with your field recordings. k but all i have is field recordings hundreds of em wle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted November 29, 2014 Report Share Posted November 29, 2014 hundreds... So MZ-RH1 is a must have investment for you as it can upload your own recordings Buy it and sell (easily) it after the work done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieronkirk Posted November 29, 2014 Report Share Posted November 29, 2014 "So MZ-RH1 is a must have investment" At the moment there is an MZ-RH1 on UK/Ebay , bidding up to £180 with 7 days to go. Kieron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted November 29, 2014 Report Share Posted November 29, 2014 sold RH1 on eBay http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&LH_Auction=1&LH_BIN=1&_samilow=&_samihi=&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=%22MZ-RH1%22&_pppn=r1&scp=ce0&_rdc=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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