bluecrab Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 OK, so I got SS up and running on Win 7 and have created a couple of MDs via NetMD transfer. I am using an MZ-S1 for this and SS is in SP mode. To say it is slow...well, 4x on an MXD-D40/400 is faster and perhpas 2x is, too. But if I use SS's LP2 mode, then transfer goes much faster. Pretty much makes sense. The issue here is not so much one of SQ, but rather playback of the completed MD. If I use the faster LP mode in SS, then disc cannot play on an SP-only unit.My question is whether such dismal slowness is part and parcel of SS's SP mode or if a different MD recorder would be faster. How do others handle this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Could be the slowness is at the MZ- end of things (it's likely a USB issue). If it's as slow as THAT, better to play optical out to the line/optical input and get :real: SP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecrab Posted August 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Oddly, it seemed to do all right with SS set to LP. I will also try a different recorder and see how that goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 That's because the software downconverts to LP2 for transmission and then re-expands to SP at the device. With LP, no conversion. ergo it's faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecrab Posted August 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Ah. I think I see, then, what is meant that you don't get true SP anyway. I just did a couple tracks with SS set to LP (on the S1) and it was very much faster than SP. The idea is that I am going to use SS for mainly or all temporary MDs that I listen to while I am on the treadmill or whatever. So LP2 should be all right. Probably the biggest job now is to load up CDs into SS. Hmmm...can you import Apple Lossless files from iTunes? Or have to convert them to .wav first? I will need to look into that, but I'll probably be doing a lot of ripping from CD in any case.For serious, good-quality copying, I use various standalone CD and MD decks. FWIW, my initial impression of SS is fairly positive. As with most s/w, you have to figure out some things by applying what you know and experimentation—and of course GIYF! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Dbpoweramp is a good converter from Apple Lossless to... WMA lossless, so you will not loose tags as it happen when you convert to WAV files. Free version just let you convert only 10 tracks at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 For serious, good-quality copying, I use various standalone CD and MD decks. FWIW, my initial impression of SS is fairly positive. As with most s/w, you have to figure out some things by applying what you know and experimentation—and of course GIYF!Big caveat - if you rip to anything other than AAL, you probably will end up decrypting the .oma files (so they become .OMA) with the File Conversion Tool. Fail to do this, and the first time you do a system restore you may be sorry......Happens that VLC/ffmpeg found the backdoor to this problem, but it's still good practice to store only unencrypted files on your hard disks:1. you can use them from any computer on your network2. transferability survives changes in Windows registry3. Sound Forge can edit them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddyjollo Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 re soundforge or its cheaper version audiostudio is a great product for editing md sound files and is quite cheap on Ebay & I beleive is part of sony movie studio which can also be got cheap there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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