Guest Anonymous Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Hello. I have hundreds of minidisk recordings that were not purchased, but are records of events and people. I would like to connect them to the pc to edit, catalog, and back them up to other media (CD, DVD). My old minidisk equipment, which had audio out, has gone defunct, and new models only have usb connection, but won't work with tracks that were downloaded from the computer. Does anybody do original work? How do you manage, and what equipment/software do you use? I have both Mac and PC, would greatly prefer to work on the Mac. Thanks. Maggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Sorry. Can't type. I meant to say New (USB) equipment/software won't work with tracks that are NOT downloaded from the computer. thanks. maggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 i don't think there is a way. just get a gold-plated male-to-male 1/8" connector.. sheilded too if you want to go all the way.. and that's the best you can do. it's not so bad, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Probably a dumb question: what do you mean by shielded? :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystyler Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 mhettinger, if you have the cash, get a deck with optical out, like the MDS-JE770/780, JB940/980, MDS-PC3, and these will yeild the best results. Even if you can't get a deck with optical out, analog will sound find too. Check out the JE470. What you will need then is either a PC soundcard with optical in, or something like the MOTU 828 for Mac (or PC) - it is a firewire "reciever" for your Mac, and can do lots of fancy stuff. http://www.motu.com/ If you decide to get just a cheapo PC soundcard with optical in, then a program like CoolEdit will be needed. BP, a shielded cable IIRC, is sheilded against radio and magnetic interference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted January 12, 2003 Report Share Posted January 12, 2003 I can't go make a live recording, then connect the MD-N707 to my PC and download the tracks, then make a CD? I was certainly led to believe this for some reason. That's the whole reason I bought this thing. I want to record my friend's music, and make a CD to listen to in the car. No deal?? Now THAT would suck. I was very excited bout this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snubtray Posted January 12, 2003 Report Share Posted January 12, 2003 I can't go make a live recording, then connect the MD-N707 to my PC and download the tracks, then make a CD?I don't have a NetMD player but my understanding is that you can't use NetMD to upload recordings. Nevertheless, you can use the Line Out of the player and the Line In of a PC to capture the recording on the PC (a program called harddisk.exe is free and does a good job of capturing Line In to make WAV, MP3 or OGG files; basic editing and track marking of WAV files can be done with another free program, CD Wave Editor). You can then go ahead and burn your CD. However, an 80-minute MD takes 80 minutes to upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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