Tony Keogh asked,
| I'm thinking of buying an R50 to dub MD's from my Sony 520, cos I heard
| somewhere that the R50 could be hacked to disable SCMS.
| Is this true and how do you do it?
Early ROM versions of the R50 could be set to record SCMS-final signals;
otherwise they obeyed the rest of the rules of SCMS. "Disabling" is not a
good way to describe it. If you find an R50 in a store today, it's very un-
likely to be one of those early models. Derek Streeter has a web page with
details, but I don't have the URL at hand.
| Does it apply to the R55 or any other portables?
Not that anyone has reported.
| Does it only (presumably) work if you record TO the R50 rather than from it?
The R50 has no digital output, only analog. If you record *from* an R50,
you're recording an analog signal, and SCMS does not apply. So if you find a
sufficiently old R50, to use the trick you'd need to record from the 520 to
the R50.
Now, on a 520 you can change the SCMS status of an existing recording; it's
a slow, involved process, and I did it only once to see if it could be done.
However, it works only on recordable MDs; if your source is an SCMS-final
CD or an SCMS-final premastered MD (if such things exist), it won't help.
| And finally, what ATRAC version are the R50 and R55?
They're both Sony 4.0, I believe.
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