Re: MD: beginner question

2000-04-25 Thread Ralph Smeets


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 Just purchased Sony MZ-R55, am recording environmental sounds. Eventually, I
 want to publish these for my friends by digitally transferring to my Mac,
 editing as necessary, and then saving the final version on a recordable CD.
 Can anyone point me to the resource or Web site that explains how said
 digital transfer can be accomplished, or am I just tilting at windmills?

I don't know for the mac, but for a PC you need:

1) a PC... (or Mac).

2) a digital audio-card. Ie, at least a audio-card with an S/PDIF compatible
   in.

3) An md-recorder/player with a digital out. Unfortunatly no portable has
   this function. So you'll need a deck

Cheers,
Ralph



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RE: MD: Question: PC to MD Titling.

2000-04-25 Thread Simon Gardner


 Are there inexpensive ways of achieving the capabilities to title
 MD tracks
 from your Personal Computer?

 I currently have an MD-R91 (sony)(current) and an old Sharp (701/2 i dont
 even recall) Being able to do it for either would be great. Inexpensive
 implies nothing over 150ish. Thanx in advance.

 Inexpensive at 150 as the alternative is sony's 769$ MDH-10 Data
 Drive...or
 the impossible to find Sharp Drive (can't find it!)

http://www.bazginge.demon.co.uk/minidisc.html

There's either schematics (so you can build yourself for about $10 worth of
parts), or he sells a smaller pre-made one for $60. There's a winamp plugin
so you can record playlists of mp3s without the 3sec gaps etc and have them
all titled for you.

(I'm not a customer, but thinking about making my own for my R55).

And for the Sharp -

http://my.nichols.de/meierth/MD70X.HTML

Which has schematics (about as difficult as the Sony one), but doesn't offer
trackmarking, Winamp plugin, etc (it's limited by what you can do from the
remote after all).

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MD: Another digital transfer way for mp3's...

2000-04-25 Thread Peter Wood


Heya guys and gals,

Well call me mad for this method, but it works ;)...

Take you mp3 album, and burn to a CD-RW (or a plain CD-R). Then put in
a cd drive (with digital/optical out) and off you go... sounds simple
doesn't it... ;).

Your main problem will be finding a CD player that will read CD-RW's,
I found that my computer cd player will read them, for which I have a
home built optical out for it

The beuty of using a CD-R(W) is you can set disc-at-once or
track-at-once. In Adaptec Easy CD Creator 5 disc at once gets rid of
the 2 sec gap ;).

It's long and it's winded, but it works ;)

Pete.
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Re: MD: Balance problem when recording analog from crystal sound card

2000-04-25 Thread Magic

From: Rahim Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject: MD: Balance problem when recording analog from crystal sound card


...after recording, playback is very low on the right channel.
 I output from winamp and have checked all other settings, and again, if I
 connect the unit to speakers or headphones, output is fine.  just
wondering
 if anyone has seen (or heard) anything like thi and knows a resolution.

This problem is usually caused by the cable you are using to connect your MD
to your sound card. Make sure that is is a stereo cable - it will have two
bands on the plug at each end not just one. If it is the right one it may be
that it has a fault, so try a different cable.

Magic
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MD: SOny JE500 drive problem

2000-04-25 Thread Michael Jary


Hiya
JHust wondering if anyone can help
I've got a sony je500 which doesn't see mto have any power to the drive
mechanism - when you pusyh the disk in it wont pull it in the rest of the
way. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on what I can do
Cheers
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Re: MD: SOny JE500 drive problem

2000-04-25 Thread jonathan . ledbury


 Hiya
 JHust wondering if anyone can help
 I've got a sony je500 which doesn't see mto have any power to the 
 drive mechanism - when you pusyh the disk in it wont pull it in the 
 rest of the way. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on what I 
 can do


It may be that the disk sense microswitch has dirty contacts or has been bent 
out of the way. Try checking its operation using a multimeter.

Cheers
Jon




 

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RE: MD: Balance problem when recording analog from crystal sound card

2000-04-25 Thread Rahim Anderson

Well after tinkering for a bit last night with cables and what not, the
blame lay on the cable I was using.  using another cable fixed the
volume/balance problem, and Im happily trying to figure out how to get
winamp to pop just enough silence between songs to keep my tracks seperate.
I remember reading mention of a silence plug in here yesterday I believe,
any more info on that from anyone?  I pretty much do all my recording from
my computer, and this is the last hurdle I have at this point.

Thank you

Rahim

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This problem is usually caused by the cable you are using to connect your MD
to your sound card. Make sure that is is a stereo cable - it will have two
bands on the plug at each end not just one. If it is the right one it may be
that it has a fault, so try a different cable.

Magic
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"Creativity is more a birthright than an acquisition, and the power of sound
is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration."

Location : Portsmouth, England, UK
Homepage : http://www.mattnet.freeserve.co.uk
EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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MD: Looking for a MD Boombox

2000-04-25 Thread DCTemby


Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a MD Boombox, but can not find one to purchase.  The Casio 
MDH-1 (ZD-1) looks like a nice unit, but Casio says that that product has 
been "archived" and is pretty much unavailable from them.  Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
Dave Temby
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MD: Titling from the PC with the MD-MT20

2000-04-25 Thread Remko van der Vossen


Hi Guys,

I've been looking into this from the moment I got my MD-MT20. I want to make
a little device to attach between PC parrallel port and MD remote port to
title MD tracks with the PC. The thing is you need these keys to title:

Edit, Display, Enter, | and | at least, and Bass, Vol+ and Vol- for
extra functionality, well | and | are on the remote so that's no
problem... I found that Display can also be used by using a custom found
resistor value. The problem is that as far as I can find there is no
resistor value for Edit and Enter, which makes titling by PC impossible
'cause you need to press enter to insert a character into a title.

Now these are the resistor values I found, if anyone found any other
resistor values, could you please inform me of them...

FunctionRemoteTried Values
Stop  6.8k6.8k
|10k 10k
|14k 15k
Vol+ 19k  22k
Vol-  25k  27k
Bass  35k 47k
Display 82k
Mode   120k
Idle   210k

Bye, Remko van der Vossen

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Re: MD: Question: PC to MD Titling.

2000-04-25 Thread Zr0e


Thankyou! 

One more Question, mainly to simon as he seems to be clued in, but do u have 
any idea where I can find the 4 pin plug to attach to the end of my Bazginge 
Device??

Thanx in advance.
~J~ 
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Re: MD: CD/MP3/MD story

2000-04-25 Thread Zr0e


Well...

At that point all I can say is,..there are crappy sounding mp3s, 96 Bitrate 
and below sound like analog scratchy shitty vinyl recordings, and thats the 
bottom line...below it and FORGET IT! I know thats how u fit more onto the 
damn player but there is no practicality in those machines. MD is the way to 
be.

~J~ 
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