[shatten22]

Anyone know of a device that will connect a minidisc to a Tibook via a toslink cable? I want the highest quality I can get and a miniplug just won't do it.

I'm sure there is something that connects to a USB port, I just haven't found one for the mac.

thanks.

[Ryu]

$59.95 and Mac supported.


$39.95 and also Mac supported

More more info, check out http://minidisco.com/miniordermp3.html

[ 06-10-2001: Message edited by: Ryu ]

[ddiokno]

Hi Shatten,
Check out the following links... MiniDisc recording w/iTunes and Roland UA-30 Audio USb interface.
Here is a picture of it....

Good Luck,
dave

[ddiokno]

Hi Shatten,
Moving to the the Peripherals forum...
thanks
dave

[iPaul UK]

I use the Roland UA-30. And it works very well. But it's very picky about the OS you use. But this goes for all USB audio devices. So make sure you are using OS 9.1

[shatten22]

The Roland UA30 looks like the best option, but it costs a pretty penny. Those other devices only send audio to the minidisc from the titanium, I need to go both ways. Anything cheaper than the Roland's $230.00 fix?

thanks guys.

shatten22

[tonton]

Shatten, please note that there are no portable minidisc players, as far as I know, that have digital OUT. They have TOSLink digital IN, but not out. Portable CD players, now, often do have digital out, but that's not any help because you can always extract the data directly from the DVD drive. You therefore cannot record from your portable minidisc to the Roland or any other adapter digitally no matter what you try. The only way I see is to get:

1. A component MiniDisc player that does have optical out.
2. A component CD Audio recorder.
3. An SCMS stripper (hard to find).

Then you can just record the MiniDisc to CD through the stripper (you won't need the stripper if you recorded to the MiniDisc from a microphone or an analog source). Then you can go from CD to MP3 or AIFF from your DVD drive. Digital to Digital.

[shatten22]

Thanks Tonton, I wasn't aware that my minidisc didn't have a digital out. That kind of sucks. Most of want I want to do is make cd's from the live concerts I recorded on Minidisc. I don't need a stripper then. Can't afford a component minidisc player and then a Roland Ua30 right now. I guess I'll have to use a crappy usb stereo-in device. Why can't somebody come out with a minidisc reader for computers? It's digital, its cheap, and those discs hold 140mb don't they? And then I could save some money!

Thanks again for the help.

[tonton]

Remember when CD's first came out, and they were all labeled AAD, DAD or DDD? Well, your recording will be DAD, which is still quite all right if you get a good analog input.

All I know is I've got numerous bootleg CDs where the sound is absolute crap, and recording MiniDisc to your computer in analog will still sound better than that sh*t.

The cheapest way for you to go, then is with an iMic from Griffin. The analog in is quite poor and will degrade the sound quite a bit, but it's still better than you'd get from a cassette recorder. Second, the Roland is midrange audio in, and will give you the added benefit of TOSLink out so you can record your MP3s to MD directly. Third, to go higher range, you'd have to spend the bucks, so you might as well just get a component MD deck and a CD Audio recording deck. Then you take the CD you've recorded from the MD and pop it into yout TiBook, extract the data as AIFF, edit it as you need in a digital environment, and burn back to CD. DDD. To shorten the process, get a digital input to your TiBook (the Roland does seem like the cheapest) instead of the CD recording deck. Personally, I'd rather have the deck so I can dupes of a CD or MD source without having to use my computer at all. Unless you're doing a lot of editing, this seems like the best option.

Cheers!

[aaanorton]

Originally posted by shatten22:
<STRONG>Why can't somebody come out with a minidisc reader for computers? It's digital, its cheap, and those discs hold 140mb don't they? And then I could save some money!
</STRONG>

This is not an oversight. They specifically don't make them to prevent people from doing exactly what you are trying to do. With that kind of quality/price-point, the poor recording industry would not be able to compete.

[Mediaman_12]

Originally posted by shatten22:
<STRONG>Thanks Tonton, I wasn't aware that my minidisc didn't have a digital out. That kind of sucks. Most of want I want to do is make cd's from the live concerts I recorded on Minidisc. I don't need a stripper then. Can't afford a component minidisc player and then a Roland Ua30 right now. I guess I'll have to use a crappy usb stereo-in device. Why can't somebody come out with a minidisc reader for computers? It's digital, its cheap, and those discs hold 140mb don't they? And then I could save some money!
</STRONG>

Sony has made a Minidisk drive for computers.

It lets you do all the editing naming copying over directy, on the computer without the normal greif involved in computer to MD rcording. It's expensive though.
Sony UK info pagele

[tr]

sony says the MDS-PC3 (pictured above) only works with PC's running windows...but the interface is USB. I wonder if someone has tried hooking this up on a mac with VPC...?

This recorder is for audio only, and it runs about $300-$400 in the US. Some time ago, when MD was in it's infancy, Sony did release a Data MD recorder for PC use, the MDH-10. I think this came out around 1995, and it had a SCSI-2 interface. But to record data on an MD, you have to use special DATA MD's, which are different from the audio MD's. For consumers, the main difference between the two MD formats is the price: DATA MD's are about $10-$15, as opposed to $2-$3 audio MD's. I guess because of that, and the fact that there are cheaper, more popular ways to store data, Sony stopped making the PC MD Data drives.

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