"Chris" <bluengaanya@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:bfbec87e-6331-43d7-920d-88ea709a0173@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Feb 24, 4:55 am, MDman <mduser...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I'm not sure I'm interested any more as my RH1 does most everything I
>> need,
>> but I just saw an mds-pc3 for sale on ebay for the first time in a long
>> while.
>
> Hi MDman,
>
> I'm new to this but like you I think my RH1 is just great.
>
> Re the MDS-PC3, I've seen it on the ebay site as well.
>
> I'm doing a bit of an archive project for a small organisation where
> they have about 70 - 100 MDs recorded from the mid 1990s to early
> 2000s. I am keen to transfer them onto the computer.
>
> I have a Mac G5 with a Digidesigns 003 rack (I have been digitising
> about 200 analogue tapes) and the latest protools.
>
> I've been looking around for a minidisc player with the optical
> digital out facility and from my limited knowledge, I was just
> wondering if I bought this MDS-PC3 would I be able to plug the TOSLINK
> between these two machines, fire up Pro Tools and press record?
>
> Do you know if this would be possible?
I would think it should work. I've done this before with an MDS-JE440
(modified to have optical digital output) and a PC with a sound card that
has an optical digital input. In my case, the sound card ignored SCMS, so
I
didn't have any trouble there (some recordings were "compilations" which
contained some material originally transferred from CD to MD). I don't
think the fact that it is an MDS-PC3 will help much, since I doubt there
is
software for Mac that would help. But an MDS-PC3 is still a fully
featured
MD player/recorder (with front controls and a remote control), so it
should
work just fine as a player.
From what I understand, you won't typically get track marks to come over
when you do the recording via optical digital output (I now I didn't). In
some cases where I wanted to preserve the track marks, I did the transfer
one track at a time (made a program with just one song in it and played
it).
In other cases, I used a program I wrote which read the TOC from a NetMD
and
turned that into a .cue file which I could use to recreate all the track
marks (using CD Wave or similar program that can read .cue sheets and cut
a
WAV with them).
Thanks,
Jeff
--
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein
|
