onlymyself Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 :wacky: Ok, I have for the last month looked around for a minidisc that can record live music (mostly classical), and then burn the music onto a CD, and play it on an ordinary CD-player. I have contacted Sony and Sharp. Finally I decided that Sony's MZ-NH900 seemed like a good chioce. Lucky for me that i ran into this site! Is it true that you can't play the "burned" music on an ordinary CD-player? What the **** does Sony meen by that??? Could anyone tell me whitch minidisc-player to get? Sharp? How much time does it take to upload music to the PC? And is the Sony ECM-MS957 a good choice of microphone? How about the Sharp IMDR580H?? Please help this confused norwegian that most of all want's to give up the whole minidisc ****............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceeedtea Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 Hold off on buying a Hi-MD unit if you want Hi-MD --> computer --> [.wav to burn to CD or whatever you want to do with it]. Hi-MD vs iPod: MZ-NH1 vs iPod Mini reviewed - written by bangraman of Head-Fi dot org UPLOADING One of the biggest questions about Hi-MD is the upload capability. Let me outline what it is: - Uploads are simply carried out through the same transfer window in Sonicstage that you use to transfer music to Hi-MD. - All uploaded files, be they Hi-LP, Hi-SP or PCM are encrypted with the OpenMG digital rights management. - You cannot burn uploaded files to Audio CD. You can burn them to ATRAC-encoded CD's for playback in ATRAC Discmen. - No third-party programs to edit OpenMG encrypted files are available at this time. - You cannot email the resulting .OMG file to other people as they do not have the rights to play the file back. - You CAN create copies of your own recorded material to other Hi-MD/MD discs, and of course you can listen to the files on your PC. The end result is that the upload facility is of diminished usefulness in a practical context, and will be of a particular disappointment to one of the major niche users of Minidisc... amateur musicians. The only way you'll get recordings into Cubase et al will be to play the sound in via analog in the old way, or to grab the WAV stream internally on the PC as you play the sound back in real time. This MAY change in future versions of Sonicstage, but it's not guaranteed.There's been word that Sony's working on a program to allow for input in .wav, which means you would be unrestricted....supposedly in Fall 2004. No one knows the depth of the restrictions on the program, so wait until then when a review of it comes out or something. SonicStage upload is broken Hi-MD vs iPod: MZ-NH1 vs iPod Mini reviewed - bangraman discusses a Hi-MD unit and the limitations of uploading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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