Anyone found the ultimate NetMD for MD>PC (via USB) &

[Guest Anonymous]

Lets have your comments guys.

Who has experimented with which NetMD machines and which have you found to be the best/worst of the bunch?

I'm thinking of upgrading to NetMD, but the benefits to me are small unless I can go from MD to PC digitally and not have to seperate the tracks myself. (And I dont accept programs that attempt to find track intervals, I need something that just puts the track mark in the exact frame as it reads it from the MD)

Thanks.

[mAjEsTiC]

from what i've owned and used there are no NetMD units out there that are capable of transfering from MD -> PC digitally...NetMD originally wasn't meant for uploading so they never implemented this feature in...that and Sony have an internal war raging between Sony Music and Sony Electronics about copyright infringement if NetMD uploading would have been implemented...i think that both Sony and Sharp make nice units overall...depending on your type of taste for the sound output of the two brands will lead you to which one you would ultimately buy...so far i think the nicest one out of all of them would have to be the Sharp DR580 unit...i've own the N1 and N10 units and can pretty much vouch for them but the Sharp one i've used before and it blows them away in terms of sound...

[tmeg]

For MD to PC digitally currently you need a Deck with optical out and a PC with optical in. This works.

For splitting the tracks at the right positions my app win nmd does this (uses NetMD to detect songs and control the MD and records the played audio with a sound connection), but without guarantee for "perfect timings" as the USB and also the PC has some "lag". Also the MD can not have arbitary song lengths and these are different to possible song lengths on CDs. But I found the timings quite good in my recent tests. My app also creates a CUE file if you record a number of songs continuesly as one song file. The CUE file is created by the actual song lengths, so they do not differ. (only by a small portion because of the different length-systems as stated above)

For new buyers it is of course most interesting to wait what Hi-MD will offer, it is stated that this enables us to transfer our own recordings directly with USB to the PC. Then of course everything will be much easier and with highest possible quality.