I think you are making this way too hard. I have a Hoontech Yamaha XG
soundcard with the digital bracket, and it is permanently connected (well,
the cables are always plugged in [grin]) to my Sharp MD-R2 deck. I use
Unreal Player Max to play whatever computer content I want to record on MD,
and just listen to the music while I record, or go do something else if I
don't feel like sitting there. That allows me to record MP3 files, WAV
files, WMA files, MIDI files and anything else that produces a sound on my
PC. I would use it for CDs as well, but since I have those in a Sony 300CD
carousel, it's easier just to switch the Toslink cable to one from my Sony
and record CDs. With the sync record setting on the MD-R2, the track marks
get created properly (Unreal player will automatically insert a delay of
your choosing between songs), and the Toslink connection from the CD
carousel also inserts track marks properly.
I will grant you that this does not address the problem of titling, but
generally I only put the title and artist, so that doesn't take very long on
my MD-R2.
It does, however, give me great audio quality which is what is important to
me.
-- Martin
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 12:03 PM
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Subject: MD: MD - PC integration
> MD is very much a stand alone audio solution,
Unfortunately, I'm find that to be far too true, even with the MDS-PC2,
which is supposed to be "computer friendly". Don't get me wrong, I love the
fact that my JE520 operates totally on its own, with no computer anywhere in
sight. But I bought the MDS-PC2 specifically to use with the computer.
While Sony seems to have done a fairly good job on the titling and labeling,
the program leave something to be desired in other areas. While they have a
function for recording tracks from a CD, they need to generalize it to that
you can record tracks from WAV files as well. And they shouldn't assume
that you're going to use *analog* for the transfer; isn't the whole idea of
minidisc that one can make *digital* transfers?
With the current state of affairs, I think it would be simpler just to use a
CD writer to burn a CDR, then copy it to a minidisc. Even though burning a
CD is not for the faint of heart, trying to go from the PC directly to the
MD seems to be even harder. Sad but true!
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