halo71 Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Not sure if this is where to post this.... I've had this portable for years now. Bought it brand new. Have on occasion hooked it up to my home stereo and all was fine. I have not recored any new MD's in years though. Don't even have the laptop I recorded from anymore. So the other day I picked up a MDS-JE320 at a vintage resale shop. I hooked it up while there. It already had a MD in it with music so I could test it works. Everything is cool, I buy the player. I get it home and hook everything up. When I try to play any of my old MD's, they will not play on the MDS. They do play fine on the portable though. I'm guessing it is a software issue? Anything I can do to fix this so I can play all my old discs? Thanks! Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halo71 Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 I might add that when trying to play one of my old disc. Everything looks right, insert disc, TOC, times etc. Press play, ques up and the timer starts. The two little meters do not show any signal coming through. Also the disc that was in it, that worked when I tested the player prior to buying. I have that disc. And it plays fine. Player shows no errors or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azureal Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Your portable is newer than the deck you picked up. The deck only supports recording and playback of ATRAC SP. If you transferred files from a PC onto discs using the 520 it would have been in some MDLP (and NetMD) format. You could record something on the deck in SP and playback would work on the 520, but you will never be able to transfer anything via NetMD and get it to play on the older SP only deck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Azureal you forgot that it has been said on that forum that Sonic Stage allow a transfer in SP mode with Net-MD, but this SP is a LP2-like quality. Not sure it work with all Sonic Stage versions or all Net-MD unit. I just never tried to do it myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halo71 Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Thanks guys. So I am out of luck with my old discs and the "new" player? I used whatever the software was that came with the portable. So there is a chance I could still use the software but transfer in ATRAC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 You are a lucky guy, we have all you need here : and then try to transfer in "SP" with Net-MD. All transfers are in Atrac except in MP3 also with only the MZ-RH1/M200. for Mac I don't knowhow to setup sonic stage, just ask again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halo71 Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 So....download the software. And as long as I transfer new music to disc using SP I can play the disc on my component player right? I am a little (a lot) confused though. I thought my component player would not read ATRAC. But you are saying all transfers are in ATRAC. Are you saying that is I do not change the recording format to SP, it automatically transfer in ATRAC format? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halo71 Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 And why does the player turn itself on automatically when there is no disc inserted? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Maybe you need to read the minidisc.org FAQ about MD recording and Atrac : http://www.minidisc.org/minidisc_faq.html SP mode after the Net-MD "LP2-like" Sonic Stage transfer will be read exactly as any real time SP recording. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halo71 Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Thanks! Will do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azureal Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Thanks Philippe, you are right, that will allow halo71 to transfer via NetMD and produce a disc readable on the deck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 As I said, never tried it before. I have time for real time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halo71 Posted March 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 Guessing there is no way to transfer my MD music back to PC. Then record in back to MD on a different codec/format? So if I make a new recording to MD from NetMD. Do I chose "create audio CD"? The other choices are "create ATRAC cd" and create Mp3 cd". Actually, what format/bitrate should I transfer from CD to library? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halo71 Posted March 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 Nervermind, got it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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