MD-->MP3
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- watermelon_kid
ive got sooo much material on MiniDisc that i have no where else; real special trax, original shit, you name it - i wanted to preserve all of this material in MP3 format, and wanted to see, what would be the easiest way to get the trax into my Mac? thanx in advance for any suggestions.
- ********0
Mental telepathy?
- snuggles0
I don't think there is anything for the Mac, that is if your MD is a sony model. The encoding is proprietary .omg files, so I use a PC using Sonicstage, I grab my .omg files and then convert them to wav files using Wav Converter, then I bring 'em over to Itunes and make .mp3's.
Funny you should ask as I'm actually doing that right now..
- ********0
I'd search some Japanese sites - I mean MD is a dead tech here Stateside. Still huge in Japan for some ungodly reason...
- snuggles0
I've done the searching, there isn't much option, sony has me by my balls...
- watermelon_kid0
no i agree, at this point MD is done - but shit they look cool - and i think it juuuust might have been able to keep its head above water if they made blank MDs that can hold, like, 3 fuckin days of music - mines actually a Panasonic - still works great after almost 6 years (dam, college was that long ago?...)
- lvl_130
ugghh. man i went through that bullshit too. i seriously can't beleive the isn't a hack yet! seriously. and that prog it comes with makes it that much worse!
the only way i have done it before, is buy a male/ male audio cable and plug one into the md, and the other into your audio jack on your machine, and fucking record it to your box realtime. it sucks, takes forever, but it works
- ********0
Look you have to interface it with your computer and compatible software. Something like Sony Sonic Foundry will do it. You'll need to record the mixes or entire songs and seperate them out. Lining them in you might lose quality, although this is digital to digital more or less. Export out your audio at .mp3 highest possible setting and compress it a little bit giving it a bit more umppfff...
- Meeklo0
MD was never big here..
So it's not really like it died, it was never as popular as CDs, Tapes, etc.When I need to send it to the computer, I go OUT from the mini, IN o the computer and REC on the software. it takes a while, but I have one of the old ones..
Hope that helps.
- lvl_130
sttep off suckas. why do you got to bite my long-winded version!
; )
- ********0
huh, you dind't tell him anything.. hahah
- Mimio0
You gotta do it the sucky way. Buy a y-adapter and capture it as source through your audio card. Any simple wav editor that captures from mic input will work.
- ********0
Most audio editing software will pick up the feed from your MD in the first place. What is the make of the MD. Look for software and possibly drivers to make this work.
- watermelon_kid0
yeah i'm rockin this baby
http://prodb.matsushita.co.jp/pr…
2 reasons why i dusted this thing off;
1 is, because i have all of this material nowhere else but on MD;and2, some monkey mother-fucker stole my iPod (cocksucker)
and i need my tunes, so until i get a new Pod, this is my shit for now.
- Mimio0
I've never been able to get my MD to play through my computer. I have the one with the USB-to-Optical connection.
- ********0
I've never been able to get my MD to play through my computer. I have the one with the USB-to-Optical connection.
Mimio
(Jun 17 05, 11:38)As long as you have the optical connection you should be able to do it. You have to have the right setting enabled on your sound card. You can easily get info from your MD to an audio editor as long as you have the proper extraction software installed. When I had a Sony MD, we did the same thing for sampling stuff for tunes and loops.