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BearBoy Posted February 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 The MiniDisc featured in the video can be purchased here: http://eox.no/shop/ The website of the company who produced the MiniDiscs is: https://www.bandcds.co.uk/all-others/minidisc-duplication-and-production/ Looks like they can print directly onto the blank discs and will do low volumes (5 discs). Might be of interest to someone planning a MiniDisc project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 Good video, I noticed that Techmoan got the Onkyo MD-105FX, one of the only two Hi-MD decks ever made (Hi-MD bookshelves are also available). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted February 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 Not sure if you've seen his previous MiniDisc video Philippe but he shows his Onkyo MD-105FX in that (starting at 36:10 ish): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 I can buy Hi-MD... bookshelves in Vietnam, I do not buy one yet. No Net-MD ! http://trantriaudio.vn/san-pham/onkyo-fr-n9tx.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzzuppp Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 Fascinating. I'd love to get hold of some (OK, about 500) of those MD boxes (and the folding information sheets that go inside them). Hm, they're in the UK... PS I've spent most of today working with my Onkyo MD-105FX, I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2020 Techmoan's just uploaded a new MiniDisc video, this time about an MZ-E620 he picked up for £10. Great tip about the Brasso... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1JWR Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 looks like he has bought a 980 at some point aswell, possible mortgage payment required for that !!! not messing about then ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 Yea, I think we first saw the 980 on the recent titling video. We're also due that video on the dubbing deck he got from Japan (that triggered his "Importing from Japan" video). Was it an MXD-D40 or similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted May 9, 2020 Report Share Posted May 9, 2020 He got an MXD-D5C if I recall correctly, you could see the CD changer on the left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1JWR Posted May 11, 2020 Report Share Posted May 11, 2020 wonder if he is a lurker on this forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 11, 2020 Report Share Posted May 11, 2020 53 minutes ago, M1JWR said: wonder if he is a lurker on this forum Yes I've always wondered that. You're out there somewhere Mat aren't you! Probably find he's a regular contributor on one of our recent threads! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 On 5/9/2020 at 2:35 PM, sfbp said: He got an MXD-D5C if I recall correctly, you could see the CD changer on the left. Yes, you can see it in this video: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted May 12, 2020 Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 Missing from his video is the easiest of all, connecting with SonicStage/USB and titling from the computer as fast as you can type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 13, 2020 Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 8 hours ago, sfbp said: Missing from his video is the easiest of all, connecting with SonicStage/USB and titling from the computer as fast as you can type. Ah he did prefix the video with "the fastest way to title without using a PC". PS/2 keyboard in the front of the machine is pretty much [*] no different to using same attached to a PC although I guess if you're entering the text into a SonicStage DB you should only ever have to enter it the once... [*] My Tascam MD-CD1 do support a few more keystrokes than my Sony MDS-E1[02] - for example Home and End work when titling. These don't do anything on the Sony which is a surprising omission by the Sony engineers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted May 13, 2020 Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 I guess the reason people want to title is because there are things to title that didn't get there FROM a PC. But taking one of those discs and editing the name information while temporarily connected to a PC seems to me less PC-dependent. More like you're making the PC into a fancy titler. I really hate uploading real recordings and having them given silly unintelligible names by the upload software, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 13, 2020 Report Share Posted May 13, 2020 Often the titles dubbed from CDs with CD-TEXT seem to be all uppercase which I’m not keen on. So I grab the PS/2 keyboard to retitle them by hand... If I write a CD-R from iTunes to dub to MD the titles of some tracks are corrupt (don’t know if iTunes is writing bad discs or my Tascam CD section can’t read them properly) so they need reworking manually with the ‘ole PS/2 once on MD. Bit of a PITA to need to do that. Must work out one day where the issue is (not that I’m likely to be able to fix it)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2020 I've made quite a few CD-Rs with CD Text using iTunes and have never noticed any issues with the titling. Have you got another CD player with CD Text you could try them on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 14, 2020 Report Share Posted May 14, 2020 2 hours ago, BearBoy said: I've made quite a few CD-Rs with CD Text using iTunes and have never noticed any issues with the titling. Have you got another CD player with CD Text you could try them on? I've tried the odd CD-R in the car which has a Sony CD with CD-TEXT. That behaves different again from what I recall. I should do a more "scientific" study. The reason I haven't really is the CD-Rs that I'm recording and dubbing are sound effects for theatre shows rather than music you'd have in the car. This means there can be a lot of short tracks and sometimes the titles can be a little longer than those you might have for typical music. I'm still of the mind that the Tascam MD-CD1 firmware is full of bugs and this is the main cause. But whatever titles it seems to collect from the CD-R end up on the MD. I'm not fully convinced of iTunes either, so it's interesting to hear you have success. The iTunes version I have is generally pretty much up to date on a Win10 machine, although I tend not to update it when I'm preparing material for a show (which isn't happening at the moment of course). I've recently acquired a Sony CDP-XE530 CD player with CD-TEXT. It also has an S-Link A1 interface, so I could hook that up to my (still :-D) working MDS-JE530 which has an S-Link A1II interface. This should allow me to dub a CD-R to MD with the titles, using Sony machines - although I'll have to do it in real time rather than the Tascam's 4x... (ETA: Found this SIF thread on using Control-A1 link between CD-TEXT CD and MD deck to support title copying, so hoping this should work...) Might have a play tonight (if I can get away from "day" work...) ETA: Glad I found that SIF thread! Happy to report that my Sony CDP-XE530 (Control A1) will copy CD-TEXT across to my MDS-JE530 (Control A1II) - track and disc title. This is from an SFX CD-R mastered with iTunes. Per that article, the text copy does only happen when using the CD-SYNC function though, not otherwise, even if the CD/MD are sync'd up such that the CD starts when the MD is started from record-pause. I used an RM-D15M remote - the larger one that comes with the MDS-JE520 (the MDS-JE530 came with a narrower one) which has the CD SYNC section buttons at the bottom. At some point I'll do an A-B comparison to check that the Sony pair have copied the track names correctly and to see if the Tascam MD-CD1 does or doesn't. Thanks for the nudge @BearBoy :-D ETA2: Text copied correctly by Tascam MD-CD1 too with this CD-R (SFX for Around the World in 80 Days). Need to try a different one! Wishing you well! ps Sorry for polluting this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another MD fanatic Posted May 15, 2020 Report Share Posted May 15, 2020 I've noticed that titles can be corrupted depending on what software you use to rip the CD in the first place. I've seen an example where any apostrophes in the title would display as a weird symbol on the ripped file (sorry, can't remember which software it was). Every CD I've got with CD-TEXT has it all in upper case, which annoys me as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted May 15, 2020 Report Share Posted May 15, 2020 I do know that the CMT-PX3 (HCD-MD595) and MXD-D400 have different views of CD-Text. The only ABSOLUTELY reliable writer of CD-text for me has been Nero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 15, 2020 Report Share Posted May 15, 2020 I thought these things were supposed to conform to the various orange/red/yellow-book standards for CDs. This is one - of many - reasons I moved away from CD back to MD for my theatre work. The number of hassles I had with CD machines not reading the text ever/always/corrupt, let alone CD-Rs being hit and miss, with both domestic and professional CD machines. No such nonsense with MD, it just works, always. Not sure why it took me so long to return (spare cash probably! - actually that's why I've got my MDS-JE530 which was a cheapy, except it didn't work... and you all know the rest!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another MD fanatic Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 On 5/15/2020 at 7:56 PM, sfbp said: The only ABSOLUTELY reliable writer of CD-text for me has been Nero. On the odd rare occasion I burn a CD I use a thing called Cyberlink Power to Go. Simple reason is that it was already installed on my HP laptop when I first bought it, and I've never had a problem with it. It's always written CD TEXT without any issues, you just need to check the music file tags first for any errors. On 5/15/2020 at 8:08 PM, kgallen said: let alone CD-Rs being hit and miss You think they're bad, try CD-RW's. Can be re=written 100's of times, or twice, whichever is the shorter! I vaguely remember using one 3 times before everything refused to read it, but that was a rarity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 They're coming thick and fast at the moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 I'm going in... for the full whack 73 minute mega version! Deep breath... So given he has all of those remotes etc, might need to standby on eBay to see if anything turns up. I could be up for a couple of decent portables remotes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 I'm almost half an hour in and he's not having much luck so far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 39mins, we have a winner!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 45 mins in, that chunky Sharp machine. Recon he's got an 80 minute Sony disc there, which has a finer track pitch. Very original minidiscs were 60 and 74 minutes and the track pitch is wider. It played his MD-CD disc ok. Wadaya recon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 Yeah, I wondered that too. I think 80 minute discs came out after my MDS-JE500 but it's never had any issues with them. That Sharp may have been even older though (and possibly not in the best nick). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 Actually, looks like it might be a Sharp MD-MS721. According to MiniDisc.org, that model was released in 1998. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 If you're short on time there is an abridged version: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 Short on time? I'm watching the full one AGAIN! So what does that tell you... oh yea, I did watch the short one a little while ago too, that was fun, but I'm glad I watched the long one first! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 Haha. I too sat through the whole of the long one. I may even have gone back to watch a couple of bits again... I’ve not actually watched the shorter one but saw the link and thought others might find it a little more palatable :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 I think he's probably bang on what he thinks the source of them is. Shame that pile were such a load of junk. However to hark back to his first minidisc video, the range of machine designs is huge even across, just the 5 manufacturers he had here. Of that load of 58 was it - other than a few that looked like colour variants of a model, there must have easily been 40 different designs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 Yeah, it’s kind of crazy how many different models got released over MiniDisc’s relatively short lifespan given that the format is often (incorrectly IMHO) viewed as having been a failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 20 years production of (Sony) machines I think, 1993-2013. Tascam MD-CD1Mk3 could be bought new in Europe ‘til late 2017. Any others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted May 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 Doesn’t sound so short when you put it like that that Kevin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1JWR Posted May 25, 2020 Report Share Posted May 25, 2020 i think he has become a serious collector/hoarder, he needs to talk !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 I watched it all... and I agree with him on 3 things (portable units) - buying junk units could make you losing your money after all (but he did that for the demo and by design curiosity) - better buy a complete unit set with almost all the accessories than the unit alone cheaper - Sony is the best even if some brands have done some particular nice looking units or well-built units Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearBoy Posted February 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 Techmoan's posted a new MiniDisc video to YouTube: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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