Re: [microsound] [ot] minidisc recorders

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

Mika Martini wrote:
> "Last I heard, it was still impossible to download recorded tracks from minidisc digitally..." 
>  
> ¿this is true??? even in the Sony Hi-MD MZ-NH700 ??

Like I just wrote, you can transfer digitally from a full-sized deck, 
but not from a portable. Doesn't help you much "in the field". The HiMD 
is a nice idea, but it uses a proprietary system to do it. That means 
you are trapped with *their* software to do your transfers. Nobody else 
can write a different utility to do the trick. So if you have an 
unsupported OS [like Linux] or you want a feature that doesn't exist 
[maybe you'd like to "gate" the input so you don't record silence, or 
whatever...] it cannot be done. I hope I'm not the only person who finds 
this important...

d.

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