[Air-l] RE: digital recording

[Zoe Dowling]

Bernie,

As far as I am aware (and I've spent quite a bit of time looking into
this recently) getting your minidisc recordings onto PC always involves
recording back in real time, using one software program or another.

However, there is some light at the end of the tunnel for MD fans
(however this would mean ditching your current MD player and investing
in a new one!) As reported on Minidisc.org:

Sony hits a grand slam! Announcing Hi-MD (spec) a new Minidisc format
based upon a 1GB MD medium and existing MD media reformatted to 300MB.
Hi-MD equipment features uploading to PC for mic-input recordings, and
built-in linear PCM as well as ATRAC3plus encoding at 256 and 64kbps.
Hi-MD recorders also function as USB data drives. Available in April,
recording equipment prices will be $200 (MZ-NH600D), $250 (MZ-NHF800),
$300 (MZ-NH900) and $400 (MZ-NH1) with Hi-MD blanks costing about $7.

Sony Press Release: http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/4270

Best,
Zoe

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Zoe Dowling, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology, School of Human Sciences
University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK 
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/~scp1zd/


Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:11:58 -0500
From: bernie.hogan at utoronto.ca
To: air-l at aoir.org
Subject: [Air-l] digital recording
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org

Hi Everyone,

A thread was started last week about digital transcription software.
This week 
I was wondering what people were using to actually get the digital
files. I've 
been using a minidisc player and a program called WinNMD, but that is
subpar 
since it only transfers in realtime. 

Any suggestions?

Take Care
BERNiE

Bernie Hogan
Ph.D. Student 
Department of Sociology
NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute
University of Toronto