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I'm here desperately looking for help on minidisc format audio files. The reason is this: in our naivety and lack of knowledge, we bought a minidisc player/recorder MZ-NH700 having been told this would record high quality digital audio, and transfer it to my computer.
Okay, it does, BUT............
From then on it's turned into a complete fiasco and I'm boiling mad. All I wanted was to make recording of a machanical music player we have at home, and use the MP3 tracks to stream from my personal webpage. Not copyrighted music, not illegal downloads - nothing like that.
I found that there is NO WAY to achieve this simple task. Sony have locked everything down so tight that it's a struggle even to play the darn recordings, let alone use them in any other media.
I have upgraded the c**p software they enclosed in the packet to version 2.2 because I saw on forums that this would now save to CD and MP3 CD's.
NO, it does not. First, the result would not be anything you could rip or use to create ordinary WAV or MP3 files; second, the only MP3 recoding allowed is from original MP3 tracks, NOT omg format files; and third and mnost annoying, you can't record your own music to a CD anyway becuase Sony thinks it's "copyrighted" and will not allow the transfer.
Only if you bought the music from their Connect website does it recognise the tracks as legitimate to create a music CD, and even then you can't do it an unlimited number of times. Good GRIEF, what hoops do I now have to jump through. What is going ON?
Can you believe this? Can you believe anybody would actually buy this --- well, I'm not a swearing type of person but a few words come to mind.
We spent about £200 buying the player and were talking into another similar sum for a stereo mike, neither of which will do what we need to do. I wish I'd just used my old cassette recorder.
BUM
Tricia
Okay, it does, BUT............
From then on it's turned into a complete fiasco and I'm boiling mad. All I wanted was to make recording of a machanical music player we have at home, and use the MP3 tracks to stream from my personal webpage. Not copyrighted music, not illegal downloads - nothing like that.
I found that there is NO WAY to achieve this simple task. Sony have locked everything down so tight that it's a struggle even to play the darn recordings, let alone use them in any other media.
I have upgraded the c**p software they enclosed in the packet to version 2.2 because I saw on forums that this would now save to CD and MP3 CD's.
NO, it does not. First, the result would not be anything you could rip or use to create ordinary WAV or MP3 files; second, the only MP3 recoding allowed is from original MP3 tracks, NOT omg format files; and third and mnost annoying, you can't record your own music to a CD anyway becuase Sony thinks it's "copyrighted" and will not allow the transfer.
Only if you bought the music from their Connect website does it recognise the tracks as legitimate to create a music CD, and even then you can't do it an unlimited number of times. Good GRIEF, what hoops do I now have to jump through. What is going ON?
Can you believe this? Can you believe anybody would actually buy this --- well, I'm not a swearing type of person but a few words come to mind.
We spent about £200 buying the player and were talking into another similar sum for a stereo mike, neither of which will do what we need to do. I wish I'd just used my old cassette recorder.
BUM
Tricia
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