I just got my new minidisc player (Sony MZR900!) and with my G4 cube, I just plug it into the headphone jack that is tied with the USB speakers (which were bundled with the computer). On any other mac, just connect it to the headphone jack on the computer. You use a stereo to stereo miniplug to accomplish this. Turn up the volume on the mac and your mp3 player (I like soundjam), turn off your modem and alert sounds, hit record on the minidisc player, once it starts, hit play in your mp3 player (or cd player) and well.. what I think is the worst part about minidiscs... wait until your disc is filled with music. Minidiscs record in real time... Unlike my QPS Fire wire CDRW which writes 8x... Oh well.. What Ihave to sacrifice for portability. All in all, I feel that minidiscs are a better investment than an mp3 player... Each minidisc is about $2.30 per disc whereas mp3 memory is very expensive!!
If you have any questions, reply! Oh.. Here's a good link I have for macs and minidiscs (I found it on another post somewhere here)
http://MacOSPage.MadBee.com/archives...D/mp3toMD.html
But remember, this is for analog recording which is essentially free (just buy the $3 stereo cable w/minijacks from radio shack). You can also record digitally with a 3rd party device such as the DG1 from Xitel or the unreleased thunderwire. Hmm what else??? maybe if someone develops a PCI card too with optical digital out... Hopefullly there will be a soundblaster for the mac soon!
Take care,
Mike
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