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

["\"busy\" Tom Deimbacher" <bluesmaster@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ray !

Sorry to say that, but it absolutley doesn't matter, how fast a HDD
spins...just think about it, if that would be true than recording a CD on
your PC/MAC would only work if you record it at 16x or 8x,older 2x or 4x
would have never worked...recording music to a HDD, regardless wether to a
PC or MAC depends mostly on how fast the processor is and how much RAM
you've got in there.The data (music) goes via line-in into the computer.The
next step is that it depends on your soundcard whether the data is being
encoded to a digital format or, if a cheap soundcard, it only delivers the
data to the software running to encode the data to, for instance, a
WAV-file. If the software encodes the data then it all depends on how fast
the processor and on how much RAM you've got. That is, basically, what makes
your recording successfull or not.

Blues & Gruß 

"busy" Tom Deimbacher

mobile: 0676.9614711
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From: owner-harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Ray Beltran
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:51 AM
To: harp-l-digest
Cc: Moandabluz@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: How to make CD's from a Sony mini-disc recorder



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
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>> I have an older model Sony minidisc model MZ-R37. I have been recording
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>> bands rehearsals and gigs.=A0 I can't get it to download so that I can
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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,
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> Toast and all that stuff, but still can't make it work. It will download
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> seconds, sometimes as long as 30 seconds, then stop. An alert says the
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> is responding too slowly....    Any advice here also???
> 
> 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.




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