I used to use a Sony Minidisc for portable music .. they are pretty decent machines, Sony so u know they are going to be reasonable quality. If you're only going to use it for recording mixes, I'd recommend getting one of the cheaper ones, the expensive ones have a lot of useless features.

Also don't forget that Minidiscs themselves aren't cheap or easy to find...

Best link I can give is www.minidisc.org (I think that's it). There's a big forum dedicated to minidiscs there, they should be able to help u in more depth

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Depends on what you're after in a minidisc.

If you want it for recording, but you need to record off a pc, you'll need a "NET-MD", and they range in price, but if you just need one that does the job, without all the little added extras, it wouldnt be too expensive.

Data space is limited to the disks, which are usually about 80min of cd quality sound - you want more, give up quality, or buy something else.

You can buy little microphones that plug into the md and record your concerts, but im not sure what the quality would be like in your pocket, may want the mic. hanging outside or something.

Failing all that, if you want portability, and the top of the range in that, then go for panasonic e-wear. Expensive, but sweet as

hope that helps you slightly...

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I've tried recording my mixes onto minidisc but I have an old MD player that's intetgrated into my stereo and I always have problems with it.

I've got the most basic one with long play.

mzr 500 I think? bought it november last year if that helps.

you can record from any source to it, so long as it's 3.5mm to 3.5mm or rca to 3.5mm (you have to buy that cord seperate).

you do not need a netmd, that just copies the files over, whereas with the old ones you merely record it from your ouput IE. 3 hrs of music takes 3 hrs to record etc.

I enjoyed mine, but if I save up I'm gonna buy webmeister's toy! ho damn!

WM, can you post the link for Jah pls??

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Oh yeah I've recorded mixes to md no problem, just put the output into the md

Although I think using a microphone to bootleg live sets would en up being shhiittttyyy quality, you wouldn't be able to catch 1/2 the sounds....

Good luck, Jah.

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Originally posted by Hybrid Junkie you do not need a netmd, that just copies the files over, whereas with the old ones you merely record it from your ouput IE. 3 hrs of music takes 3 hrs to record etc.

Doesnt netMD come with better quality conversion of files from your pc to md. The old method through the regular output in your sound card is analog; not as good a quality.

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Yes and no AussieTrance .. if you have a sound card or DVD player with optical out, you can record digitally to your minidisc with zero loss of quality. However optical out ports are pretty rare, though I vaguely remember seeing a USB optical out plug..

link to my toy

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You probably want a unit with Net-MD. People complain about its limitations (eg. cant transfer MD to PC, can't transfer from PC to MD in SP etc...), but really it does what I want it to, I can transfer mp3's to my MD unit at 132 Khz (if thats the unit of measurement?).
Anyway there's a whole bunch of NetMD capable recorders out there. Other stuff you may be interested in is LP2 and LP4 playing and recording capability. What the anti-shock mechanism/memory buffer is. Size could be an issue...
Best place to ask about this stuff is at the t-station(link below)forums, the people there know their shit. Other than that, check out minidisc.org and t-station for specs ofproducts. When you're researching prices start with minidisco, cos they're pretty much guaranteed to have what you want, and go from there.
You'll also probably want a decent pair of headphones cos for some reason MD units never come with decent ones.
Good luck on your search .

MD resources
http://www.minidiscussion.com/
http://www.t-station.net (check out their forums!!)

E-STORES:
Best range: www.minidisco.com
Best in Aus: www.minidisc.com.au
Overall awesome store: http://www.bluetin.com/index.htm
http://i-shopping4u.com/portable_audio.html
http://www.mdpassion.com/
http://www.minidiscaccess.com/
http://minidisc.dezines.com/francistung/index.htm
http://www.hyperjack.net/
http://www.my-minidisc.de/index.php?language=en
http://store.yahoo.com/planetminidisc/index.html
http://www.japan-direct.com/

PS - I've got an MZ-N1 and I have no real complaints with it. Also the MZ-N10 is already out in Japan, so this may lead to the price of the MZ-N1 dropping significantly in a few months... I'd wait till after Christmas if I was you.

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wow thanks for all the replys guys!
well primarily its just for recording my sets from my mixer at a decent quality listening to audio and shit will come 2nd so i guess i dont NEED the netmd... would be nice tho
thanks for the info guys!

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PS - I've got an MZ-N1 and I have no real complaints with it. Also the MZ-N10 is already out in Japan, so this may lead to the price of the MZ-N1 dropping significantly in a few months... I'd wait till after Christmas if I was you.

yeah i just saw on www.minidisc.com.au! crazy! i might wait, thats what i was thinking thanks for the sites dude

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Last edited by Jah on Nov-26-2002 at 03:46

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