On Wed, 10 May 2000 08:26:48 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I have a bunch of MD's that I would like to burn onto CD's on my new
> computer. I have an SB Live with SPDIF in/out and a MZ-R55. I realise
> that I can't digitally hook my portable up to my computer so I was
> wondering what the forum thinks the best solution is for me?
I guess it's probably gonna come down to cost vs ease, and perhaps sound
quality - 'though that may be difficult to quantify, depending on your setup
and use.
If your prepared to go with the attributable sound quality from recording
CDs using a sound card, is using a 3.5 jack to jack cable (MD -> soundcard)
gonna be that much of a compromise?
> Should I
> just get the cheapest MD deck possible and hook that up to my computer
> with cables (what does the cable look like that hooks to SPDIF?)
Not exactly sure of what you mean here, do you mean what do the connectors
look like?
> or would
> it be easier to get a CD-MD deck which allows me to do all the
> transferring between MD and CD in one unit?
Certainly would be easier - I'm rather assuming there are CD recordable
decks and MD decks in the one unit, but I'd guess there are - I just don't
follow them that closely. Most people tend to wanna go the other way around.
> Any recommendations on
> decks? (keep in mind I only buy Sony MD products)
Why *only* Sony MD products?
> I think it would be
> cheaper to do it on computer and I've heard that the CD-MD deck uses a
> different kind of blank CD-R's anyway. As it is right now, I can
> record MD's to WAV files through a cheap minijack onto burned CD's,
> but it's a real pain because I don't get track marks and I think (?)
> the quality might be lower.
I do wonder if you'd notice the difference, in the majority of instances.
Obviously this is gonna depend on expectations and appplication, but for
ages I've been recording MD's digitally (bookshelf unit), but when it was in
for repair, a month or so back, I did record a few MDs using analogue
connections - a couple of times from the analogue audio outs on my DVD
player, and last night using the analogue audio outs from my VCR - and I
have to say I've been more than happy with the recordings.
No doubt the use of high quality audio equipment would show the limitations
of these methods, but given that I mainly use MDs in my car (MD head unit)
and in my portable, I don't really notice much (if any) tangible differences
from the digital recordings.
> The main thing I want out of this
> purchase is to be able to burn my MD's onto CD in a single operation, all
> the tracks will be retained on the CD (less work).
I would have thought that if slightly more additional money wasn't an issue,
a deck would be the way to go.
> I don't have
> titles, so that doesn't matter
Are there any decks that will transfer MD titles to CD text? (genuine
question)
> --it's just the track marks I desire, and
> the original sound quality.
There's always going to be some compromise on quality using most retail
soundcards, mainly because of all the noise and compromised shielding.
> Also, is there some sort of software
> that makes it easy to do this, or would it be just like now, where I
> have to do everything manually? Please help.
Can't really help on this, don't really do much audio stuff on my PC.
Cheers
Neil
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