How to MD to CD via PC ?

[Guest Anonymous]

I have a MZ-R37 ( w/ a line out ) & know how to plug it to my pc's line in but thats about were it ends. Has anyone found software that allows this with a fair amount of ease. No editing required other than to seperate the songs (recorded from records/radio). Would I maintain the same sound quality ? Would I be better off buying a CD burner deck ?

Thanks for any help, Shape

[MDX-400]

I have a MZ-R37 ( w/ a line out ) & know how to plug it to my pc's line in but thats about were it ends. Has anyone found software that allows this with a fair amount of ease. No editing required other than to seperate the songs (recorded from records/radio). Would I maintain the same sound quality ? Would I be better off buying a CD burner deck ?

Thanks for any help,   Shape

The easiest way to do this is to record each MD track as a .wav file and then write them to a CD as an Audio CD using a CD writing program (Easy CD, Nero, etc.). (Record the .wav files as 16-bit stereo, 44.1Khz Sampling rate.)

Almost every modern-day CD writer allows you to write CD-Text as well so you can input the titles for display on a compatible CD player.

I don't know if there are any CD writing programs that allow you to record CD-DA (Audio CD) in realtime and even if there were it would make proper track marking difficult at best.

Getting a CD writer hi-fi deck would make things pretty simple but they are pretty pricey and if you have a PC with a CD writer there is really no need. The only thing you'll have to worry about is the wait to make the .wav files (in real time of course) and then to write the CD.

The quality won't decrease since CD Audio is uncompressed and better than MD to begin with. So the quality will remain pretty much untouched.

Roland M.

[Mystyler]

This is what I do:

MD--->PC--->CD

Deck's line out--->AC'97 line in and record with CoolEdit 2000--->Burn .wavs with Nero.

I record each song seperately, and save as an individual .wav file.

Surprisingly good quality.