Qwakrz Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Why does sony seem to think that the end user will either want really high quality (Hi-SP) or really poor quality (Hi-LP). I would really like to know if it is possible to record to a 1Gb Hi-MD at a data rate and quality similar to the old MD-LP2 rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Yes, you can encode either Hi-MD or NetMD bitrates on a Hi-MD disc. p.s. Our Hi-MD faq is located here: http://minidisc.org/hi-md_faq.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gino Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 However first you'd have to use SonicStage to encode the music to your hard drive, and then transfer it to the Hi-MD player in Hi-MD mode. I've transferred many discs at 132 kbs this way. Its roundabout but it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Which is a real shame. I wish Sony would include "Music Move", which is a piece of software that allows on-the-fly encoding for the new Vaio harddrive portable music player in ATRAC. If they included that with Hi-MD, it would be a very nice perk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gino Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 We can only hope that Sony gets it's act together and includes that functionality in a future software upgrade. We can dream, can't we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doclloyd Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 How is Music Move different from the Simple Burner software that takes tracks directly from CD to MD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 I think we're jumping the gun assuming that the on the fly encoding done by the MusicMove does the encoding on the Vaio Pocket side... For all we know, the DSP on the Vaio Pocket could be worse than the DSPs on the MD hardware. Big assumption, for all we know, the MusicMove could be gussied up SonicStage, and one can say that SS encodes on the fly, so to speak. I could be mistaken about all of these, however. IF someone can (and will) correct me on this, I'd highly appreciate it. On a spearate note, I wonder if I should take out my tin foil hat now? I'm starting to at least listen to the theory/hypothesis that ATRAC3/plus hardware codec is vastly superior to the OpenMG software codec... Tin foil! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwakrz Posted May 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Thanks for the reply, Im glad to know that I can still get a resonable ammount of music onto a minidisc at a resonable quality. The main point I was trying to put across is the lack of a mid point in the Atrac3plus encoding system. Its either 256kbps or 64kbps, there is no middle 128 or 160kbps. I wounder what would happen if you encoded them at something like 160kbps on a PC and transfered them, will they be re-encoded or transfered as valid files and played back? I would presume that having a similar bitrate in Atrac3plus is preferable to Atrac3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alieninhead Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Whoa, there is no mid-ground? I never realized that. That sucks. So the only way to use a Hi-MD disc is to encode using ATRAC3plus? So when you reformat your old MDs to Hi-MD standard the reason it fits so much on it is because it's using a lower bit rate..? I'm confused.. ~a.i.h. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 You can encode NetMD bitrates on a Hi-MD disc, AFAIK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doclloyd Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 See the following link for what modes can be recorded/transferred in Hi-MD mode. http://www.minidisc.org/hi-md_faq.html#r_q93 My understanding that SS 2.1 is also supposed to allow PCM downloading from the PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alieninhead Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Oh, OK, OK... So you can record from SS2 NetMD bitrates into the new Hi-MD/reformatted 80Min discs, but not when you're actually recording through the line-in using the hardware encoder... That's kinda odd... ~a.i.h. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 yeh well that's Sony 4 ya... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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