transfer minidisc to pc

DUBISAK

Hi all,

looking for a way to transfer music from mini disc to PC via USB or any other way other than through phono leads.

I am reading alot of confussing and contradicting info on net.

Any help greatly appreciated.

thanks

sxt

Apparently not able to do it so from usb,unless you have a brand spanking new model from this year that bucks the trend?

Transom.org

It's worth noting that despite the ambiguous terminology in product descriptions, the USB connections on the small portables, including Sony's "Net-MD" models, only support moving audio from the computer to the minidisc, and not the other way around, as most sound-recordists would like. This could change, but for now the way to get sound from a small portable minidisc to the computer for editing, is via the analog outputs, in some cases the headphone out. That analog output is connected to an audio-in on your computer, either built-in to your sound card or on an external interface.

It seems counter-intuitive: you've recorded digital audio onto the minidisc, and want to edit digital audio on your computer, you should be able to just move the files over, but it's not that smooth. Even the HHB can't just transfer the files, it plays the audio out in real time. In effect it has a built-in USB audio interface. Even in making an analog transfer, you still have the sonic advantages of recording to a digital medium, with less noise and wider bandwidth than cassettes. And when done carefully, the analog transfer can be done with minimal negative impact on quality.
posted by sambosambo at 4:18 AM on January 20, 2008

DUBISAK

Thanks SXT, I read that article you pasted. Read other articles that contradicted it though, and could not find dates on some of the articles so could not tell which was the most up tp date.

I know originaly it was not possible to transfer via USB, but understand it is now, atleast PC to MD direction.

Read however that latest Sony music programe allowed for MD to PC transfer via USB, but not sure if have to have new MD aswell. Its very confussing, might just try with phono lead and see what quality like.

you dont know where could get could lead per chance??

sxt

Yeah it looks like you would need to have the relevant player like the one below , unless you can download special drivers for your model minidisc or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-MD

"When connected to a computer (via USB cable), a Hi-MD Walkman is seen as standard USB Mass Storage device, just like a USB stick or external hard drive. On a Windows computer, a Hi-MD device is listed as "Removable Disk" in "My Computer"."


Peats electrical stores or any of those types of shops should have them.

DUBISAK

Thanks SXT,

Do you have a mini disc player?


not much interest from posters on the subject, they laughed at me in work when said I had a mini disc.

cheers for your help

kierank01

I think sony shot themselves in the foot when they intentionally limited this very good technology.

I had a minidisc in 2000, and the first ipod was in 2001, if they had made the system more versatile, they could have stolen a march on apple, and then itunes may not have taken over.

I know that they did this to protect their record label, but they have now removed DRM from the itunes store too.

J-blk

If USB does not work after all, does your Minidisc not have optical out? I had a Sony one a few years back and I thought optical was pretty standard - optical out to the digital input of your sound card (pretty standard for most sound cards to have digital inputs these days) would produce better results than using the analog line out.

sxt

DUBISAK wrote: »

Thanks SXT,

Do you have a mini disc player?


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I had, well it was my brothers but somebody had an accident with it

DUBISAK

J-blk wrote: »

If USB does not work after all, does your Minidisc not have optical out? I had a Sony one a few years back and I thought optical was pretty standard - optical out to the digital input of your sound card (pretty standard for most sound cards to have digital inputs these days) would produce better results than using the analog line out.

My Mini disc only has an optical in, most likely not the cream of the mini disc crop I have..

J-blk

DUBISAK wrote: »

My Mini disc only has an optical in, most likely not the cream of the mini disc crop I have..

Too bad . Seems you're stuck with using the analog output then... hopefully you'll get better results than you originally expected.