babbelbox Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 The possibility to upload (mic)recorded tracks from your MD machine to a PC would be a nice feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Currently, digital audio uploading is not an officially supported feature of the NetMD suite. However, that isn't to say that it may be technically possible in the future (there has been talk on some forums about the possibility of audio upload in the future) through some kind of software/firmware rewrite to allow MD uploading. I would personally welcome an official solution with open arms, but for the moment such a matter is in the hands of the users such as yourself. The only practical solution for getting MD music onto your PC is to record from the Line Out of your MD onto your PC using your soundcard's mic input. There you can do pretty much whatever you want with it. Bear in mind that the audio has already compressed by the MD's ATRAC DSP, so you're going to lose more quality if you compress it to MP3 because of second-generation compression (although ATRAC, especially the Type-R and S generation chips, is perceptually lossless so you may not be particularly noticeable). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Something that they could probably do with NetMD uploading is only allow uploading of audio that was recorded via the mic or analog line-in. Since most things that people would like to upload are lectures, live recordings and the like this would seem optimal. I'm sure they could decipher that from reading the TOC or the track itself. If it was recorded digitally, then they could leave it alone and not allow uploading (if it was recorded from someone else's machine or something). That could avoid any copyright issues of uploading music digitally downloaded from elsewhere. Thoughts on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 Not a bad idea, and it is technically possible because SCMS doesnt' apply to analog/mic recordings, so the SCMS bits are different from those for digital recordings. I'd still like to see unrestricted digital uploading and true SP recording, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 Does anyone know about the legality of such hacking? If I was to write a program which allowed digital uploading, would this be in violation of anything? What if I rewrote the firmware, would this be violating anything? Does anything change because I'm in Australia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sefu Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 You most probably void warranty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandsun Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 If you attempt to commercially market the results of your hacking, you can expect Sony to do unkind things to you. If you go opensource/freeware, they may still do so. You'd need a lot of powerful friends to survive the experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazirker Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Andy, if you wrote any kind of netmd mod program, I don't think anything legal would be getting messed up (i.e. freedom to tinker.) Plus you'd also be the man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 8) Andy, An unoffical mod program is bound to happen, If sony does not release any. You should go opensource/freeware with it with the legal license for freeware, copyright and all. There are plenty of freeware programs for just about anything out there and they have not been taken action against because it is not commercial. Youd be the man tho and get the props due. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 If anybody can fix up a program for uploading conveniently, I want a heads up. Such a thing would be greatly apreciated. My band and I would love to master a md recording of ourselves using a pc but we're not too excited about the hasle. Damn Sony :evil: and their money grubbing executives! :evil: :evil: :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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