Sony new MD units Suck try ipod made by Apple for PC or Mac

[Guest Anonymous]

I recorded direct into digital in from my computer and and all was fine except that it strips all the recorded material with their copycode protection. These are my own songs I wrote, so I sure don't want their copy code on my songs unless it is by my own choice. I don't need Sony to tell me when to use it and when not to.

The Nero trick does not cut it either. You still end up with a file being encoded at least twice. Once to LP2 then back to SP as it records to the minidisc. Even worse the simple burner only burns LP2 and LP4. No such thing as wav to encoding just once. Really lame. SONY SUCKS BIG TIME ON THEIR NEW MD UNITS. I'll just return this lame piece of crap to Best Buy and buy an older unite with all the feature like digital in and OUT and no stripping with their lame copycode. There are plenty on ebay.

Sony is a bunch of money grubing jerks that want to sell you the same Beatle recording over and over. records, 8 track, cassette, CD and now DVD. 15 US dollars will buy you a CD. 20 to 30 for a real nice DVD. In the meanwhile you can listen to your 64 bit crap on super dupper long long play. What ever happen to at least CD quality. Try ipod by Apple. They record 600 3 minute songs in wav file format on the 20 gig model and you can load up or down with no copy code crap.

Thomas

[me]

Eh?

Add sharp, panasonic, denon, JVC, and other MDR manufacturers to that list too, they all have SCMS...

There aren't any units with optical out and in, except the MZ-1 you own. And decks. But north america (best buy is in america, right?) doesn't have them, so off to ebay you shall go. Buy a bleedin MDS-E10. Pro deck. No SCMS for you.

You do realise you don't HAVE to use NetMD right? For the price of a 20 gig iPod you could get an MD and SCMS stripper, AND not have the trouble of a HDD based mp3 player..

I'm somewhat confused still, rofl..

[Mystyler]

You'll find that SCMS is REQUIRED on all home digital recording equipment.

Deadset dude, iPod is a fine MP3 player, but lacks the features to compare with MD.

[Guest Anonymous]

actually, The Beatles are on Capitol Records (EMI not Sony), and yep...we do repurpose their stuff over and over.

[Christopher]

Anyone remember that old killing joke (i think) song..

"free speech, free speech, free speech is for the dumb!"

If you don't like the Minidisc format, then leave us alone. We don't care that you don't like the Minidisc player, man. This whole flaming the Minidisc format is lame, and I really don't understand why you iPod and other various solid-state/flash memory music guys come here and hassle us.

Do I come to your place of business and tell you how to count the requisite number of McNuggets?

k

[Andy]

I don't get it, the complaint was one about SCMS... obviously the problem was that distribution of band's stuff was impaired because of this as no digital copies could be created.

The solution? Well, lets use an IPOD - no SCMS there... sure, there is absolutely no way to make a digital copy... but at least if there was, then maybe it wouldn't be affected by SCMS.

EDIT: I think I had a bad choice of words there. Uploading to a computer is a digital copy in every respect. But going from computer->iPod->computer is nothing special. If you have music on computer and are trying to distribute it, then CD is the best way of doing it, having an iPod doesn't really help (with the exception of if you have 2 computers - one with recording stuff and one with a CD burner)

In the meanwhile you can listen to your 64 bit crap on super dupper long long play. What ever happen to at least CD quality. Try ipod by Apple. They record 600 3 minute songs in wav file format on the 20 gig model and you can load up or down with no copy code crap.

What would be the point of copy protection on a hard drive? The content has to get there via a computer, and obviously if it is on the computer's hard drive then copy protection further down the line is going to squat.

I'll just return this lame piece of crap to Best Buy and buy an older unite with all the feature like digital in and OUT and no stripping with their lame copycode. There are plenty on ebay.

What ever happen to at least CD quality

A word of advice, the older units with digital in and out have a crappy encoder, thus you will get nowhere near CD quality. Get a decent deck or a professional unit, not only will it have no SCMS, it will sound awsome.