atrac 6 disc on atrac 4 player?

[yewty]

hello there.

 

I recorded some music on a portable sharp 722 MD ( atrac 6? , says 24 bit on the chassis),

 

I read on wiki that MD's, although have various encoding types ( atrac 1,2,3...) they require no specific decoding and therefore a later version MD is guarenteed to play on an earlier machine.

 

thats how i understand it : ?

 

I am loooking to transfer my ATRAC 6 disc to my Pc.

 

I have 2 options.

 

1. use the sharp 722 player analog out to the PC analog in. ( 2 addition conversions and aditional jitter, hiss and so forth.)

 

2 digital transfer from an older sony JE500  ( which i beleive uses ATRAC 4 for encoding)but by the sounds of things, uses the same read/playback method of the sharp? but i may be wrong.

 

thanks for your help.

 

peace : )

[culp4684]

You're comparing apples to oranges here.  Sony and Sharp had completely different numbering/lettering systems for their respective versions of Atrac.  In other words, Atrac 4 in Sony is not equal to Atrac 4 on Sharp.  Sony went from 1 in the earliest models to 4.5 in later ones before they started using letters (Atrac type R, Atrac type S).  I believe type S is as far as they went.  I'm not sure how far Sharp numbered their versions (8 perhaps?). There is a pretty good description of the Sony system at the minidisc.org site under FAQ.

 

You can't upload material from a deck to your PC.  I believe the Sony RH-1/M200 is the only portable unit that can do that and prices are pretty prohibitive as they are the last and  best recorders made.