Guest Anonymous Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 I'm new here and plan to buy a NETMD soon. Now I read that uploading isn't a feature. But I've also read that certain software has been developed to allow uploading. Is there a NETMD unit that is better developed to upload? And how reliable are these softwares? :?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leland Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 The uploading software is simply an analog recording utility that uses the NetMD hooks to allow control of the NetMD unit from the PC while recording. It records the tracks as separate .wav or .mp3 files as defined by the track marks on the MD. It will also transfer track titles and allows you to give the tracks that are untitled a sequential naming such as track number and some string. You should set the recording level manually, using the level controls for your sound card. This is like the old days of analog recording that some of us remember. With a good sound card and careful recording level setting, the quality you get is really very good. If the source is good, it beats the kind of sound degregation one gets with MP3 encoding, so if MP3 is good enough for you, analog recording is fine. The only real drawback then is setting the record level and the fact that the recording takes place in real time rather than at the speed of a digital transfer. Again, for those who lived in the complete analog age, I have to laugh at being irritated by this because there was a time when that was so normal, I didn't think twice about making a compact cassette for my car of a new vinyl album and having to keep an eye on the end of a side (ca. 20 minutes) and then turn it over. Track marks? What? I have used this software and it really works well. I was previously doing it with a simple recording and then manually splitting the tracks using CoolEdit, but the upload program works great and saves me the trouble. I use .wav recording to eliminate any additional compression steps and since I am planning to delete the files once I have them stored in my NetMD database as ATRAC3 files. I have gone completely ATRAC3 even though it is less flexible than MP3 simply because of sound quality. A song recorded as ATRAC3 at 132 kbps is vastly superior to MP3 at 192 or more. One persons opinion. Pointers to this software are available on the minidisc.org site. Leland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 5, 2002 Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 Thanks for the input... So the software is only for analog. I thought maybe they would have digital by now. Oh well. So which NetMD unit gives least trouble in dealing with uploading? I was thinking of getting the MZ-N707, is this good unit for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystyler Posted December 6, 2002 Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 Ricky, they're all the same, as the NetMD upload software is third party. The N707 is probably the best bang for buck NetMD around, has most features and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 6, 2002 Report Share Posted December 6, 2002 Thanks for info guys. I guess I'll be gettin a N707 this week then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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