Re: How to make CD's from a Sony mini-disc recorder

[Ray Beltran <raybeltran@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/11/04 8:21 PM, "harp-l-digest" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 23:28:38 EDT
> From: Moandabluz@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: How to make CD's from a Sony mini-disc recorder
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> In a message dated 5/9/04 12:03:29 PM, dr.alters-wizardsway@xxxxxxx writes:
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>> I have an older model Sony minidisc model MZ-R37. I have been recording ou=
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>> bands rehearsals and gigs.=A0 I can't get it to download so that I can bur=
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>> CD's for the guys. .=A0. . Does anyone have any advice?
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>  I have a Sony MZ-R70 minidisc...It records great but, same problem.. I=20
> can't get it to download into my Macintosh computer. I have an IMic, Itunes,=
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> Toast and all that stuff, but still can't make it work. It will download for=
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> seconds, sometimes as long as 30 seconds, then stop. An alert says the disk=20
> is responding too slowly....    Any advice here also???
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> Steve "Moandabluz" Webb
> still a fool for the harp

Steve-
The error message you're getting is telling you that the hard drive can't
keep up with the data that's being sent to it from your MD. The two primary
reasons are the following: a hard drive that's physically too slow, or a
hard drive that's severely fragmented.

You should be using a hard drive that's spinning at least 7200rpm to record
music onto. And then try to do nothing else on the computer when you are
transfering the recording. If you haven't defragmented your hard drive in a
while, it would be a good idea to do this. Defragmenting will allow the data
to be written in one contiguous stream, rather than forcing the read/write
head to continually seek for places on the hard drive that don't have data
written to it already.

I run my Sony MZ-R909 minidisc into my Mac G4 AGP onto one of the two
internal SCSI drives that spin at 10,000rpm. More than enough speed to
capture that data. But it's still important to keep them defragmented for
optimal performance. I use Drive 10 to defrag:

http://www.micromat.com/drive_10/drive_10_introduction.html

Sometimes I choose to transfer the data to another internal hard drive, this
on on the IDE bus, that spins at 7200rpm. Regardless, I use Bias Peak to do
all my editing:

http://www.bias-inc.com/products/peak/

Some less expensive audio editing tools are Sound Studio:

http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio/

And Audio Hijack:

http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/


If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me off-list.

God Bless,
Ray.