Minidisc to wave transfer question.

[Mark Kleinhaut]

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[Mark Kleinhaut]

[Mark Kleinhaut]

Sorry for the trigger happy send button a moment ago.

My question is if anyone knows of a way (or device) to read the data recorded
on a portable minidisc directly into a computer. I have Wavelab on my PC
and I would like to do some wavefile work on the audio, but the only way
to get sound out of the minidisc is with the analog line outs.

Thanks for any and all advice.

[Georg Ritter]

Mark Kleinhaut wrote:
>
> Sorry for the trigger happy send button a moment ago.
>
> My question is if anyone knows of a way (or device) to read the data recorded
> on a portable minidisc directly into a computer. I have Wavelab on my PC
> and I would like to do some wavefile work on the audio, but the only way
> to get sound out of the minidisc is with the analog line outs.

There are minidisc players around with spdif out. Use a converter box
from
opt->coax. and feed it into an el cheapo soundblaster with digital in.

G.

[Mark Kleinhaut]

But that involves playing the recording back in real time, granted it's better
than analog out and re-AD'ing it, but I'm wondering about whether its possible
to just reading the data file directly?

[Georg Ritter]

Mark Kleinhaut wrote:
>
> Georg Ritter <georg....@uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> >Mark Kleinhaut wrote:
> >>
> >> Sorry for the trigger happy send button a moment ago.
> >>
> >> My question is if anyone knows of a way (or device) to read the data recorded
> >> on a portable minidisc directly into a computer. I have Wavelab on my
> PC
> >> and I would like to do some wavefile work on the audio, but the only way
> >> to get sound out of the minidisc is with the analog line outs.
> >There are minidisc players around with spdif out. Use a converter box
> >from
> >opt->coax. and feed it into an el cheapo soundblaster with digital in.
> >
> > G.
>
> But that involves playing the recording back in real time, granted it's better
> than analog out and re-AD'ing it, but I'm wondering about whether its possible
> to just reading the data file directly?

No, nothing that I know of.
There were minidisc pc-data-drives around for a short time. But they're
disconitued
and the anyway couldn't read out the music data. I guess that everything
was
prevented by stupid Do-Not-Copy thoughts.
There are pro devices for digital copy of MDs. But that's realtime too I
guess.

G.

[Mark Kleinhaut]

It seems ironic that many new MD recorders comes packaged with a "PC-link"
device so you can digitally transfer all your illegally gotten MP3s onto
your disc, but god forbid someone should just want to transfer a homemade
recording of themeselves? Besides, it doesn't stop analog transfers, so
who are they kidding anyway. <grumpy now>

[Sevo Stille]

Mark Kleinhaut wrote:

> But that involves playing the recording back in real time, granted it's better
> than analog out and re-AD'ing it, but I'm wondering about whether its possible
> to just reading the data file directly?

Given that MDs do not contain uncompressed audio, you'd require a
software Atrac decompressor as well as a MD data drive which allows
access to audio formatted media. As far as I know neither exist. The
closest you will soon be able to buy will be the Sony MZ-N1 portable,
which has an USB interface - but going by current knowledge, it seems to
work the wrong way around only, from computer to MD.

Sevo

[Clay LaHatte]

For some additional info, go to www.minidisc.org
Clay.

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