Guest Anonymous Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Hello, a quick question for the NET MD savvy. I have a Pentium III - 850 mhz and a MZ N-10 (great machine!). Using 'Simple Burner' and LP4 (I'm recording voice) I can transfer at about 10x - i.e. a 60 min CD with 6 tracks takes about 6 min. I am thinking about getting a faster computer - Pentium 4 - 2.0 ghz. Am I dreaming to think that I will get dramatically faster transfers like 20x or 30x? I know that transfer limit for LP4 is 64x. Thank you for your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 well conversion rate will be faster of course...i own a P4 2.0GHz (o/c to 2.2GHz w/ 512MB DDR266 RAM @ 400MHz FSB) and a P4 3.06GHz (1GB DDR400 RAM @ 800MHz FSB) and there isn't much difference in the transfer speed..it is a bit faster but no where near the claimed 64x...i can get approx 30-40x?? on the 3.06 with conversion...the 2.0 will prolly get you about 20-30x on the N10 with conversion...that's just a guess since i hav'n had time to clock the transfer as well as do the maths to show how fast it is as opposed to real-time recording... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Thanks for your reply! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazirker Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 I got bad news for ya...it actually won't be all that much faster if you get a new computer. If you want to know how fast it will be, watch your minidisc unit the next time you make an MD via simple burner. Note that the unit pauses between songs. If you get a faster computer, all the pauses between songs (between TOC edits between songs, actually) will be roughly 5 seconds instead of however long they are now. Either way, it won't make a dramatic difference because the NetMD unit spends sooooo much time doing all the TOC edits. TOC edit, send song, data save, TOC edit, pause, repeat cycle for next song. It's really ridiculous, I don't know why Sony didn't just kick out all the TOC edits until the end of the recording, or at least not make it do two edits per track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmeg Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Also consider the speed of audio extraction out of the CD. If you use a CD image, that does not limit the speed, but if you use real CDs, then at least at my PC, my CD does not extract fast enough for higher speeds. If you need fast transfer, use SonicStage and convert the first one or two tracks of a playlist, then check the playlist out, the TOC update will only happen at the end of the whole playlist (with my N910), saving much time. Now the CPU is limiting the transfer (P3-800), so I would assume a big speed increase in this case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clonmult Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 My archaic PII300 laptop transfers via simpleburner at the hugely fast 4x rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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