Alexander Franca schrieb: > > > Hi! > > I'm brazilian... so... please, be patience with my horrible english... > > I don't know this list is the right way to post this question... but... > maybe you can help me. > > I want to buy one MD Sony portable walkman. Sony say it's possible > record mp3 into that MD (one Net MD MZ-NE410) > > http://hardvision.com.br/produtos/MZ-NE410_full.jpg > > But in Brazil this player is very expencible :( > > And I don't intend pay a lot of money in one player without use for Linux. > > So... I have two questions: > > 01 - For record mp3 in one MD, my MD disk use mp3 files or one > conversion for audio data? It's important because if one MD don't suport > mp3 files, so... one MD just can give me one small space! Correct? > > 02 - Exist support for Linux to one that MD player? > > 03 - OK, three questions! How work one MD? Have one file system like pen > drivers? > > Thanks and verry sorry if this questions is in one wrong list! > > []'s > Alexander > Brazil - Rio de Janeiro > > This is a topic that concerns me, too. First about ATRAC and MP3: I don?t know who invented ATRAC data reduction proceeding on MD. But it is another than mp3. So you need a conversion software for that. Sony gives you for that procedure a software called OpenMG JukeBox. It changes the mp3 format to ATRAC and lets You check in and out tracks from your computer to your MD walkman and only back to your computer. Other tracks that you have recorded on a minidisk the software recognizes but you cannot "check in" to your pc. This has to do with the registration code of Win XP and other versions of the other os I suggest. The software recognizes tracks that you got from other pc?s via USB and does not let you copy on any other system. Sony puts the Net MD player together with an USB 2.0 adapter cable and also with an optical cable for optical line input. Sorry but I don?t know if your specific MD Walkman is bundled with this because I didn?t follow your link. I suggest it is so. I don?t know MD Walkmen of other brands, not so much about technology or whether other brands support technology copying your own files from and to pc, but this is what I know. My brother has got another Net MD Walkman from Sony using it for work as a professional music therapist. He records his work onto MiniDisk to do some rehearsal after his sessions. He wants to backup his work, means copy to a pc to get mp3s out of it. He is not due to pc, winblows... so as I do but he doesn?t want to copy his tracks via sampling the whole thing twice in real time (first when he recorded it and then home sampling with a pc. This is also not easy because he sets track marks on rehearsal and he wants the mp3s to be the same. That means half an hour of music with I suggest up to 30 track marks. Any recomendation about a technique that supports reading out tracks from ATRAC in linux / winblows not in real time with saving tracks "as is" maybe through usb or reading from a professional MD recorder digital spdif input maybe with double speed and resampling... Thanks for any note Marius Janssen
