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Never met that one before!
I found the remote...
Hooked out some easy grab discs...
Oh, I also found the rechargeable batteries and PSU. The newer high capacity special dodaa battery had topped itself and bled out, the original Sony battery is still good, charged up and running!
I still have quite a few of them and 100's of discs . I think it was the colours of the discs that I liked. I used to have a walkman pro cassette ( mentioned on another thread here ) got rid of that quick. I think my favourite these days is the Sony MZ-B10. Takes 2 AA batteries, built in mic, MDLP and the speaker as good as many small trannies, optical in. A mini-deck in other words. When I got mine cost me just £50 or so now I see Ebay sellers offten want £200 or so ( good luck to that!)
I couldn't find the recent thread where someone said that MD units were unreliable and I reposted that I personally never had any problems.
I've also mentioned that of the many units I had only one portable remained, at the bottom of a dark box or drawer.
Today, I encountered said machine, a Sony MZ-R55 that was a tad grubby from storage, with a disc still inside. I didn't bother try the rechargeable battery and just went for the 2xAA add-on pod...
Instant success after ?years of inactivity. Ya see, reliable!
It has earned a clean up and the hooking out of the MD collection
I think I have the in-line remote stuffed in another place...
It was more of an academic question. It's interesting that you can get a SCMS stripper. I didn't know that.This is going back a few years, but IIRC you need an SCMS stripper.
I've actually got one here that I made 20-odd years ago, but no way of testing it, as I no longer have a recorder.
It was more of an academic question. It's interesting that you can get a SCMS stripper. I didn't know that.
Although convenient in some ways recording from the digital input can be a little restricting. For example there is no way of adjusting volume level. Radio 3 for example is quieter. Also, although editing is very effective on MD, you can't fade out or in with the digital input.
I have to resort to an analogue in, counterintuitvely, from digital sources converting to analogue.
well you clearly never learnt how to remove the copy protection while the pc was working? it isnt hard. Then you could have moved the music files to any where else. You use the sonic stage conversion tool really meant for if i remember updating from an earlier version of sonic stage ( 2.0), but also allowed stripping the copyprotection from any atrac files you have, even produced by the current sonic stage....I used to love Minidisc, recorded many a prom and listened back. I stored them in Sonicstage. Then the computer’s motherboard expired, I replaced it but it then denied me access to my stored recordings. It always seemed a great format ruined by over zealous rights management. There were even some recordings of me and my quartet playing that were blocked. I farted around for ages trying to unblock them but had to give them up for dead. Such a shame that a flaw like that prevented the format being usable.
It was more of an academic question. It's interesting that you can get a SCMS stripper. I didn't know that.
You can get the last and best version here
http://forums.sonyinsider.com/forum/15-minidisc/
also how to install on 64 bit windows
Link didn't seem to go anywhere useful, couldn't find anything in their search either.
Any chance of clarification?
Thanks