How to I transfer MD to PC. I have a Sony netMD mz n707

[Guest Anonymous]

Is this possible? I record lectures in school and its very time consuming to record it back to the PC. Is there a program that directly transfers MD files to PC??

THanks

Kyle

[Mark Nicholson]

Kyle:

Conventional wisdom is that there is no way to transfer the file directly to PC but that it has to be done in real time.

I have seen it written that Sony was at one time looking at minidisc drives for computers. Maybe somebody can comment on that.

Mark Nicholson

[Guest Anonymous]

What do you mean by real time?

I dont really know my terminology in audio etc.

Thanks

[Mark Nicholson]

It means that you have to play your recording into the computer. You can't just transfer the file.

[highlandsun]

Yah, 6-7 years ago Sony released SCSI-based MiniDisc Data drives. They need to be hacked though before you can read/write music discs.

This is really gross, but I've done "high speed" transfers to PC by playing back on my JB920 at 2x speed. Keep the sample rate high on the PC when recording, and change it back to a normal rate later. Naturally you'll lose most of the high frequency content depending on how good your audio gear is, but when you're in a hurry it works.

[Guest Anonymous]

Re: highlandSun's comment on Sony selling SCSI-based minidisk drives for PCs a few years ago, I'd be interested to find out if they are still available & what the hacking is that needs to be done to get them to read/write music MDs.

I read on one of the BBS, I think on this system, that someone had very recently seen a TV program which featured a PC-installable music MD drive, which would let us download MD data to PC hardrive - problem is, though, that doing that would not strip SCMS from the data. I'm new to this stuff - is there software/freeware out there which could de-encrypt ATRAC3 files, removing the SCMS data to render them non copyright protected ? They would still need to be converted to e.g. WAV format to burn conventional music CDs from them.

'course the other way is to use the optical out on an MD (e.g. 707) and a hardware SCMS stripper like MAudio's CO3, but there's still the problem of what software can receive the datastream through an optically-ready sound card & archive & then convert the stripped ATRAC3 data to e.g. WAV format - does anyone here know what the best software for this would be ?

Fred