Minidisc Audio Coverting

J.Christie · Sat 02 Jul, 2005 14.31

If anybody owns a Sony Minidisc player and SonicStage, please help me out. Is there anyway to transfer music from the minidisc player (they transfer as .ogg or something like that) to an mp3 or something like that?

THanks

Nick Harvey · Sat 02 Jul, 2005 14.34

J.Christie wrote:Minidisc Audio Coverting

Isn't that against one of the Ten Commandments?

Or is that only when you do it to your neighbour's wife?

babyben · Sat 02 Jul, 2005 15.42

J.Christie wrote:If anybody owns a Sony Minidisc player and SonicStage, please help me out. Is there anyway to transfer music from the minidisc player (they transfer as .ogg or something like that) to an mp3 or something like that?

THanks

Yes, but there is a good chance it'll not be easy.

Sony have the MD format strangled so much that transferring anything anywhere is a nightmare. You'll prob have to use something like TotalRecorder or something and basically record the output of your minidisc onto your PC then chop it up and create the MP3s yourself.

I'm guessing Jamez will be along shortly...

Chris · Sat 02 Jul, 2005 16.35

And don't create MP3s. All material from MDs is compressed already and re encoding it will simply make it sound worse.

babyben · Sat 02 Jul, 2005 16.38

Chris wrote:And don't create MP3s. All material from MDs is compressed already and re encoding it will simply make it sound worse.

Good Call. I'll instead load a bunch of 100mb wav files onto my i-pod

Personally, I think that if the MP3 rate is high enough (192>) then you won't notice any difference.

huddsguy · Sat 02 Jul, 2005 18.20

J.Christie wrote:If anybody owns a Sony Minidisc player and SonicStage, please help me out. Is there anyway to transfer music from the minidisc player (they transfer as .ogg or something like that) to an mp3 or something like that?

THanks

The latest version of SonicStage does export to mp3 or a variety of file formats... I just downloaded the new one from the Sony website.

Bail · Sat 02 Jul, 2005 18.30

Nick Harvey wrote:
J.Christie wrote:Minidisc Audio Coverting
Isn't that against one of the Ten Commandments?

Or is that only when you do it to your neighbour's wife?

You should know you wrote the book.. or told someone too...

J.Christie · Sat 02 Jul, 2005 20.15

huddsguy wrote:
J.Christie wrote:If anybody owns a Sony Minidisc player and SonicStage, please help me out. Is there anyway to transfer music from the minidisc player (they transfer as .ogg or something like that) to an mp3 or something like that?

THanks
The latest version of SonicStage does export to mp3 or a variety of file formats... I just downloaded the new one from the Sony website.

It does? Sony... here I come! Cheers!