AcerBen Posted August 11, 2003 Report Share Posted August 11, 2003 Today I bought my first minidisc player (Sony Net MD Walkman MZ-N510 type S blue) basically because I gathered it'd be quick to transfer my MP3s to a disc instead of burning them on to a CD and also it's just smaller than a portable CD player I've got it working and everything but it's so SLOW. In fact it took over an hour to "check out" 20 tracks to the thing... so I suppose it must be running on 1xspeed instead of the up to 32x speed I was promised. Is this because my computer is only a P2 400 (which is the minimum requirement) or is there a way I can speed it up? Also... how do I add more tracks to a disc without overwriting the existing ones, I lost all of the tracks I'd put on. And if I'm putting MP3s on there (i've set it at that highest possible quality thing) will it fit lots of them on? When I start recording it converts the files but I don't exactly know what it's doing - is it expanding them to WAV like files so that I can only fit 80 minutes of actual audio on an 80 minute disc or will I be able to get lots more tracks on? Argh it's all so annoying because I've never used one of these things before and I'm impatient coz I want to master it asap hehe. I did read the instructions before you ask They didn't seem to have much on the actual Net MD part of it - I'm not going to use it the conventional way because otherwise it's just a glorified tape recorder innit Anyway hope that makes sense and I'd be very grateful if anybody can help me in the smallest way Thanks Ben from the UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted August 12, 2003 Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 I've got it working and everything but it's so SLOW. In fact it took over an hour to "check out" 20 tracks to the thing... so I suppose it must be running on 1xspeed instead of the up to 32x speed I was promised. Is this because my computer is only a P2 400 (which is the minimum requirement) or is there a way I can speed it up?depending on what quality that you actually transfered at (i.e. SP, LP2 or LP4) will determine the speed of the transfer...SP has the slowest speed...(around about 1x-2x) and LP4 the fastest (theoretical value of 64x on the N10)...to speed it up i suggest that you do the conversion of your songs to atrac before hand...this may be a pain but it is faster since when you want to transfer the songs are already in the right format and you can just transfer it straight away without it having to convert and then transfer (speed of conversion does rely on the power of your PC - the faster the better) Also... how do I add more tracks to a disc without overwriting the existing ones, I lost all of the tracks I'd put on.that's odd...it shouldn't do that....i'm not 2 sure about his one...(i'm gathering that you're using sonicstage 1.5...from my experience with it this has never happened to me...seems odd that it deletes your tracks on the MD... :? ) And if I'm putting MP3s on there (i've set it at that highest possible quality thing) will it fit lots of them on? When I start recording it converts the files but I don't exactly know what it's doing - is it expanding them to WAV like files so that I can only fit 80 minutes of actual audio on an 80 minute disc or will I be able to get lots more tracks on? if you're talking about recording in SP mode then that translate to exactly the amount that is stated on the MD (give or take) what i mean is that if you record in SP mode on an 80min MD then you will get 80min worth on of music on the MD...if you record in LP2 mode then you get about double that amount (at a slightly lesser encoding quality - though many people can't tell the difference between LP2 and SP unless you're an audiophile) and LP4 (even lesser quality encoding rate than LP2) translate to 4x the amount of music that you can fit on the disc (so on an 80min MD with songs recorded in LP4 you will approximately have about 5hrs worth of music) sorry my answer seems a bit long winded :? ...don't hesitate to ask more questions if you have any...i'll be more than happy to help out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcerBen Posted August 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 Thanks mAjEsTiC, that's helped a lot I'll try it on the next quality down then if it doesn't sound too much worse I did try converting them to WAVs first coz that's what I'd usually do with making CDs but that's not the way it works obviously hehe When converting them to ATRAC should I do it at 105kbps as opposed to 132? Is that the same as LP2 thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted August 12, 2003 Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 um 105kbps i think is reserved for the Sony MS Network Walkmans...you should encode those files @ 132kbps since that is the encoding rate of LP2...and converting them to wav from mp3's/cda's doesn't do much difference since they'll be converted back to atrac files anyway...but you might be able to get a higher quality output if you ripped a cd in wav format and then encode in atrac... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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