hans200 Posted December 11 Report Share Posted December 11 I just purchased a Sony MDS-JE500 minidisc player. The disc loads, reads the TOC, displays the song title and starts counting the play time. However, there is no audio. I tried the RCA outputs, optical, and the headphone jack. No readings appear of the digital VU meter either. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted December 11 Report Share Posted December 11 Most likely reason is the disc you’re playing is in LP2 or LP4 format which the 500 doesn’t support. Are there disc titles, do they say LP: ? Take a disc and try and record onto it using the 500 and see if that plays back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted December 13 Report Share Posted December 13 Agree completely. Now if you said you had the MDS-S500 then we'd have a completely different ball of wax. As it is, this is an old machine and if you have disks that have music on them (that you want) then you must buy something newer. We can try to give guidance. Kind regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans200 Posted December 14 Author Report Share Posted December 14 Thank you for the replies. Confirmed that this is a format problem. Was trying to play Minidiscs that were made on a NetMD player and are in LP2 format. Should have done a bit more home work before purchase. Live and Learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted December 15 Report Share Posted December 15 I have always wished there would be a drive (like a floppy) that might be standard on computers that you could play MDs on. Turns out there was one (somewhere in the VAIO range of Sony) but way too rare for common adoption (probably they wanted too much for the license fees?) If that had been available, MD might have lasted a lot longer and penetrated a lot further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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