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Re: Sony Hi-MD Mini disc - no longer compatible with Mac OSX

Subject: Re: Sony Hi-MD Mini disc - no longer compatible with Mac OSX
From: "Mark" seoulgypsy
Date: Thu May 3, 2012 5:56 pm ((PDT))
Optical and Coax output on the Minidisc Decks will transfer your files digi=
tally. Might pick one up very cheap on Ebay...


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On May 4, 2012, at 7:44 AM, "Steve Pelikan" <> wrote:

> As an easy a crude solution: what about connecting the player to the comp=
uter via the analog link (headphone output/input) are (re-recording) digiti=
zing it on the computer? (The free Audacity will do this if nothing else).
>
> That's what everyone had to do a few years ago and it works reasonably. Y=
ou'd need to have something really fancy to have it make much of a differen=
ce, I suspect.
>
> Just thinking it'd be easy and fast...
>
> Best!
>
> Steve P
>
> --- In  "davimon100" <> wrote=
:
> >
> > Can anyone advise how I can transfer audio files captured on a Sony MD/=
 Hi-MD to Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion). It is only now, after I bought a used Sony M=
D player, the mic capsules and built a battery box, that I thought to check=
 that the files could be imported/ exported OK to my MacBook. I tried the l=
atest Sony file for Mac and I get the message that the software is no longe=
r working; certainly the MD is not recognised as a separate device on the M=
acBook. Sony, it appears, have thrown in the towel on developing a new one.
> >
> > I have been working on a boundary mic setup to record to a Mini-Disc, g=
iven that I had read that the preamps aren't bad for such a small unit and =
that the files can record relatively uncompressed. I thought this would mak=
e a neat setup and leave rig for field recording. This certainly won't be t=
he case if there isn't a way to get the files off the discs and into a DAW.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any suggestions you have on a workaround for this - hope=
fully one that doesn't involve me buying a PC as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
>
>









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