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fatreg
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shame indeed..
I've only got 3 retail discs..
Now 44
The Offspring - Americana
Chemical Brothers - Surrender
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max_wedge
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On 2007-10-09 14:11:00, Sammy_boy wrote:
i've read from a few places that this last remaining md is how md should've been, easier to transfer stuff to it, less silly restrictions with transferring music etc. This true? Might save up for one of them if i get the use out of my md player when it arrives! Just bought one of those little sony dual head mics to go with it too!
If my N505 had had that ability, I may well have stuck with the format for longer. Ultimately though, unless they could fit an MD into a mobile phone, I was gonna convert to AAC + Mobiule Phone eventually anyway.
However, it would still be very useful as a recording device for example converting old LP's, Jam sessions etc. So maybe I will look at the one remaining consumer MD drive 
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Sammy_boy
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Another probably daft question - I know there are 'bookmarking' options with MD players, but do they just 'bookmark' particular favourite tracks or does it also remember where you are in a particular track?
What I mean is these audiobooks I have are just one big MP3, 200-300Mb in size, and having to try to get to where I am in the audiobook when I resume listening to it will become harder and harder the further I am into the book. Does the 'bookmark' fuction also work in such a way as to remember where I am in a particular audiobook, i.e. so I can just insert a MD with that audiobook on and be able to find where I left off last time I was listening to that book?
I hope this makes sense! 
"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
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fatreg
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theres a little button named T mark.. that will make a track from that pint on but seemlessly..
ie gapless playback..
they are easy enough to get rid of too...
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tranced
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hi all. bumping something i was looking for....
i have a MZ-NH600D. it's nice but what i hate is that i cant delete any song i want.
today i brought it with me, but i forgot the headphone  
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max_wedge
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hey tranced, I just got one of those thingy's too. I love it to death. It's revitalised the MD format for me. $39 bucks at WOW Sight and Sound. 
With the HiMD format, you can copy tracks to PC using sonic stage then convert to WAV, MP3 or other format (using himdrenderer). No DRM protection! To test, I recorded fm radio output from my K800 via hpm-70 to line in on the minidisc, then uploaded the saved track to PC and converted to mp3, no worries!
The HiMD drive also acts as a usb storage device, NO DRIVERS! That's better than even my old K750 can do! The HiMD discs are 1GB capacity, or standard 170MB minidiscs when formatted as "hi-md" have their capacity almost doubled to 300MB.
The only downside, you still can't just drag and drop an mp3 to the data drive via Explorer- it won't play on the minidisc. You still have to use SonicStage to convert and transfer. The latest Hi-MD drives do play mp3 natively, so you don't have to convert before transfer, however you still need to use SonicStage to transfer - no drag and drop via Explorer.
Anyway, Sonicstage 4 is a shitload better than 2. It's actually usable as a music library software. You can atleast import mp3 into sonicstage without having to convert to atrac - and if you have an older hi-md like me, it will convert to atrac when transferring. Not as good as itunes, but like I said, usable, which is a big step forward for Sonic Stage
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max_wedge
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On 2007-11-15 18:18:03, tranced wrote:
hi all. bumping something i was looking for....
i have a MZ-NH600D. it's nice but what i hate is that i cant delete any song i want.
I think you can only do that via Sonic Stage. You can use the onboard menu to erase all.
EDIT: It appears you can delete tracks on the device - from the manual:
while playing the track you weant to erase, enter the menu and select "edit" - "erase" - "tune:erase".
"erase OK?" and "PUSH YES:ENTER NO:CANCEL" appear in the display.
If the selected track was transferred from the cimputer, "TrkFromPC ERASE OK?" appears in the display.
Press the play key to erase the track.
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max_wedge
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Apparently Sony is dropping all drm, including the Sony Connect store, and will start selling MP3 without DRM.
http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=20467
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Trev1982
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On 2007-10-09 23:59:04, fatreg wrote:
shame indeed..
I've only got 3 retail discs..
Now 44
The Offspring - Americana
Chemical Brothers - Surrender
I have that offspring album on mini disc
chilli peppers - blood sugar sex magic
Korn - issues
wu tang clan - the w
rage against the machine - evil empire.
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max_wedge
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I never bought any retail discs. I'd much rather buy the CD so I can rip quality MP3's off them, and still copy to mini-disc if I want
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Supa_Fly
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On 2007-10-10 23:44:30, fatreg wrote:
theres a little button named T mark.. that will make a track from that pint on but seemlessly..
ie gapless playback..
they are easy enough to get rid of too...
I've ALWAYS loved this function. I have so many 60min - 74min DJ sessions recorded from a friend of mine way back. For individual tracks - I used the T-Mark (I had MZH-70 or something like that 12+yrs ago) and played back the tracks via my PC and saved individual tracks (that GOD for software now a days). Then I'd burn to a CD and import to a new MiniDisc to create a "demo" Minidisc for ppl I'd see on the BUS with a MiniDisc. Was kinda cult like. Imagine listening to a MiniDisc player some 9yrs ago and some brother walks up to you on the BUS and gives you a disc ... you ask (they always do in surprise & elation like expressions) "whats this? Whats on it, what kind of music"? I'd purposely just nod and say nothing. So many discs where giving out here in T-dot only saw 1 person again and her & her girlfriend thanked me with hug ;D
What a pain that was. But I gotta find me a HiMD disc recorder player as I still have precious music on those old discs I NEED!
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max_wedge
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the latest himd recorder (MZRH1 http://www.sony.com.au/walkma[....]g/product.jsp?categoryId=34288 )
allows you to save to computer all your old recordings ie: via data transfer as opposed to line out to line in at realtime speed. Also any net-md rips form CD. ALSO supports MP3 native and drag and drop of mp3 straight to the mini-disc as a data drive. !!
I want one bad...
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Supa_Fly
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Me too man mee too!
its STILL commanding a $350CAN price tag. Mind you there are 2models with only 1 difference. I cannot recall though.
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max_wedge
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Yep, gotta get me one! Having trouble sourcing 1GB HiMD discs though - may have to buy online.
On another note: I did some recording last weekend to minidisc from old cassettes using my walkman cassette player (for my mum - she wants to listen to her old cassettes on her cd player - her old tape deck is busted)
The result was amazingly listenable. Some of the cassettes are very old - so after I uploaded to pc I ran noise filtering software over the wav files. I am very pleased with the results, I may even convert some of my old cassettes to digital this way - atleast the stuff I can't get online or on cd.
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tranced
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From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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Sorry to dig up a not-so-old thread, but this is a sad news:
RIP Sony MiniDisc..1992 to September 2011
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