Re: Transfer MiniDisc audio to GNU/Linux PC
- From: Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 May 2006 17:09:17 GMT
Chris <ithinkiam@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Tristan Miller wrote:
[ folow-up changed to c.o.l.h as I don't have access to
alt.audio.minidisc ]
It looks like we will have to buy a separate device to copy the
MiniDisc
digital audio to our computers. Can someone recommend to me such a
device
which will work with a GNU/Linux PC? We don't do a high volume of
Well, one way, which for lectures is probably good enough, is to simply
play the MD with its output going into the input of sound card. Of course
this is not ideal, as each D-A and A-D introduces some noise. But it is
certainly very cheap (free) , is slow (real time). I know that Sony's
console type MD players came with a digitial outputi and input as well as an analog
one, while the portable players only had analog output and input. However I
have no idea what the format was of those digital streams, or how to get
them into the computer.
lectures (maybe a couple per month), so something slow and cheap is
better
than something very expensive. We'd prefer something with a USB
interface because not all of our machines have FireWire or digital
audio inputs.
Sony did try and market MD as a data-storage medium, but it was around
the time CD-R/RW really took off and as they were cheaper with greater
capacity it died pretty quickly. You may be able to pick one up on
ebay.
Also, do these devices give you the original ATRAC data or a raw audio
file? If the former, how do I convert ATRAC to raw audio (PCM or
such) so
that I can re-encode it with something more standard? SoX doesn't
seem to support it.
No ATRAC is most definitely a Sony-only audio compression codec. I guess
the only way to translate the raw data would be to get the software
sony supplies with it's latest digital walkmans. That would probably be
a good excuse to get one them ;-)
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