Hi Folks,
Just got a MZR909 and was wondering whats the best way to transfer music between MD and PC. As I understand it to transfer to PC I’ll need to connect from the MD TO PC via line out/headphone socket to line in/mic and record as a Wav file using e.g Cool-edit. I’ve seen products that connect the MD to the PC’s USB (Xitel DG-2 and Edirol UA-1D)I was wondering if anyone had used this method.
Cheers, Mac
[ This Message was edited by: MacEachain on 2002-11-27 05:14 ]
Why don’t you load the disc in your CD-Rom drive ? You might need some extra software to read it, but there’s aplenty freeware around (like Quicktime reader).
You’ll save two, analog-to-digital and back to digital, conversions steps.
Same thing back to Mini-Disc : I doubt Easy CD Creator wouldn’t handle this with a PC burner.
Sorry I can’t be more specific, since I primarily use Mac for anything music or images-related, but Crimosoft world has its solutions too.
Mac’s the real McCoy
[ This Message was edited by: Zubivka on 2002-11-27 05:29 ]
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On 2002-11-27 05:23, Zubivka wrote:
Why don’t you load the disc in your CD-Rom drive ?
Do you mean that a CD-ROM Drive will read a Mini-Disc?
Cheers, Mac
Yup, Apple-less Mac 
Sony designed the standard to be CD compatible. And I recently shied away from Minis to burn on me PC (as in generic personal computer) just because they were too expensive (compared to regular CD-R) for a little whistle gadget I’d like to market.
But they’re around, work in the same burners.
Hey just try, it : you can’t possibly jam the reader/burner. Maybe a system crash at worst, but then don’t blame it on me–it’s your unfriendly environment 
Don’t do it Mac, he doesn’t understand what you’re talking about - I promise you that square peg will not work in the round hole, if you see what I mean.
Loren
Hi Loren,
I thought there was a misunderstanding, I tried it anyway, even took the disc out of the cartridge just to see what would happen. It did’nt jam fortunately. Thanks for the input anyway.
Cheers, Mac
Considering that a minidisk is cartridge based (residing in a square casing of plastic) and a cd is free (no casing at all), it’d seem self-evident that it woudln’t work in a cd player. As Loren said, square peg, round hole.
Sorry Mac!
I did confude Sony’s Mini Disc and the Mini CD-R used on devices like their Mavicas.
Glad it didn’t jam 
Hi Loren! Long time no see… And thanks for correcting “him” 
Mac, as far as I know, and I’ve looked, all of the USB connectors on the portable plays are for recording to the MD only. Mainly this is due to piracy fears and not due to any technical limitation. So, like me, you’re stuck adjusting the headphone level so as to not overdrive the line-in on your pc and recording each track manually.
Annoying, but the MD portables are so convienient for recording sessions that I put up with it.
I’ve been told that some of the decks will support a SPDIF out, but as I’m not in the market to buy a new unit I haven’t looked into it.
Eddie
On 2002-11-27 08:10, Zubivka wrote:
Sorry Mac!
I did confude Sony’s Mini Disc and the Mini CD-R used on devices like their Mavicas.
Glad it didn’t jam >Hi Loren! Long time no see… And thanks for correcting “him” >
Hope your long career as a “Professional Reviewer” wasn’t riddled with such mistakes: One ought to be sure about something before offering advice that could cause damage to another’s property. Perhaps you should spend less time critisizing me for not sticking to the hard evidence, and more time getting YOUR facts strait before you speak.
What goes around comes around Zub.
Loren
You can be sure I DID make mistakes, and you just pointed to hard evidence.
Difference is I was–am–always ready to humbly admit them as soon as I can see it, and correct them when possible, with apologies to the readers. I think there’s hard evidence to this, too.
Talkin of which, I’m really glad you’re still around. I feared you missed already some other thread.
Actually, the difference is: I didn’t make any factual mistakes in the review you critisized obliquely, and I have no reason to apologize for any opinions offered.
Loren
Bloody hell, everyone’s swinging handbags (purses) at each other again.
On 2002-11-27 08:59, nickt wrote:
Bloody hell, everyone’s swinging handbags (purses) at each other again.
Umbrellas
Sorry about that, Nickt.
Yeah, some of us (this includes me, ok ?) do need a separate yell-room…
Sort of like the Batley Townswomens’ Guild presentation of the Battle of Pearl Harbour!
(Yet another Monty Python reference).
Loren’s back ?
And me, caught without a holiday handbag, the shame!!
Loren
On 2002-11-27 09:28, Tony wrote:
Loren’s back ?
No, the phone company pushed back my disconnect date, don’t worry, I’ll be gone in the next couple of days.
Loren
Loren, don’t take it the wrong way… it was meant to be funny. I thought you might have a laptop with cellular internet connection… yeah, now that’s the ticket!
This whole thread is more and more resembling a Monty Python bit! Carry on, ladies! 
serpent
I’m a whistl-er and I’m Okay!
I play all night and I chat all day!
I play whist-les, I eat my lunch,
I go to the lav-a-treee!
I criti-cize a whistle,
And do it all for free!
(chorus)
I play whist-les, I talk to folks,
About their small Cee-Dee!
Suggest that they un-pack it,
And play it on Tee-Vee!
(chorus)
I play whist-les, not very well,
I make them, not for free!
But Jessie doesn’t like 'em,
So I cry in me tea!
(chorus)
… feel free to add verses!
Cheers,
Serp