MD: Newbie question recording from Minidisc to CDR
Hi Being a newbie to minidiscs i have a question. I am about to purchase a Sony MZ-R90 portable minidsic player. I want to record to minidisc using binaural mics which I have worked out. I then will want to record from minidisc to CDR (on a PC) and have not been able to find a resource on the net that explains this. I was wondering if anyone could point me to any resources about this or give me some tips. This is what I have figured out and as far as I know it could be totally wrong. Is it possible to do digital to digital minidisc to CDR recordings? I assume to do this u need a line out on the Sony minidisc that is a TOS connection? Is this the case and is there a TOS line out on the Sony minidisc recorder. Where does SPIDIF fall into this and what exactly are SPDIF and TOS, are they different? Secondly you need a TOS/SPDIF connection on the PCs soundcard (for the CDR). As long as that is the case I presume these recordings can be made. Or am I wrong and is the only output on a minidisc recorder analogue As you can see I am confused any any advice would be appreciated. Cheers Pete - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Newbie question recording from Minidisc to CDR
Is it possible to do digital to digital minidisc to CDR recordings? I assume to do this u need a line out on the Sony minidisc that is a TOS connection? Is this the case and is there a TOS line out on the Sony minidisc recorder. Where does SPIDIF fall into this and what exactly are SPDIF and TOS, are they different? Secondly you need a TOS/SPDIF connection on the PCs soundcard (for the CDR). As long as that is the case I presume these recordings can be made. Or am I wrong and is the only output on a minidisc recorder analogue As you can see I am confused any any advice would be appreciated. A. S/PDIF is the format of the audio data being transmitted (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format). B. TOSlink (Toshiba Link) is a connection type for a physical medium (optical) which may be used to transfer the above mentioned data (other mediums include coax cables etc.) C. What you need is a digital output from the Z90 (you'll have to check that for yourself), if such an output exists it's probabely optical. D. You need a soundcard with a digital input (SB Live/Value, Hoontech's ST series etc.), and make sure the bracket on the card has the desired digital connection (either optical or RCA(coax)). If you have the Live/Value you can get Hoontech I/O board III for about 35$ which has both optical and RCA input and output. (www.hoontech.com) E. Then you record the audio stream from the MD using the sound card DIGITALY to a standard PCM encoded file on your hard drive (.wav), after which you're ready to burn it on a CDR in the standard CD-Audio format, thus the whole proccess is done digitaly and the only source for audio quality degredation is the ATRAC compression algorithm which is used to store the audio data on the MD. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Newbie question recording from Minidisc to CDR
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Thanks very much, that makes sense. Pete - Original Message - From: Ze'ev Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 11:01 PM Subject: Re: MD: Newbie question recording from Minidisc to CDR Is it possible to do digital to digital minidisc to CDR recordings? I assume to do this u need a line out on the Sony minidisc that is a TOS connection? Is this the case and is there a TOS line out on the Sony minidisc recorder. Where does SPIDIF fall into this and what exactly are SPDIF and TOS, are they different? Secondly you need a TOS/SPDIF connection on the PCs soundcard (for the CDR). As long as that is the case I presume these recordings can be made. Or am I wrong and is the only output on a minidisc recorder analogue As you can see I am confused any any advice would be appreciated. A. S/PDIF is the format of the audio data being transmitted (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format). B. TOSlink (Toshiba Link) is a connection type for a physical medium (optical) which may be used to transfer the above mentioned data (other mediums include coax cables etc.) C. What you need is a digital output from the Z90 (you'll have to check that for yourself), if such an output exists it's probabely optical. D. You need a soundcard with a digital input (SB Live/Value, Hoontech's ST series etc.), and make sure the bracket on the card has the desired digital connection (either optical or RCA(coax)). If you have the Live/Value you can get Hoontech I/O board III for about 35$ which has both optical and RCA input and output. (www.hoontech.com) E. Then you record the audio stream from the MD using the sound card DIGITALY to a standard PCM encoded file on your hard drive (.wav), after which you're ready to burn it on a CDR in the standard CD-Audio format, thus the whole proccess is done digitaly and the only source for audio quality degredation is the ATRAC compression algorithm which is used to store the audio data on the MD. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
