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Thanks Richard. Good to know. I need to double check on my machine's capabilities since that's probably what's limiting the capabilities. :-) Martin -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard L. Hess Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 12:42 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Minidisc players Hi, Martin, I am fairly certain that I am able to rip any MD with the Sonic Stage software and my MZ-RH1 (I think it's the same except for accessories as the MZ-M200). I bought it for a client project that had mixed modes on some of the MDs and it got everything. There may ne other MD players that behave as you describe, but I think Sony sort-of realized at the end of the format they needed to provide us with something to retrieve material from the format in an easy way. Cheers, Richard On 2011-12-02 9:20 AM, Martin Fisher wrote: > I believe this fast ripping applies to HI-MD recorded discs only. The MD I use regularly is a HI-MD and requires the installation of Sonic Stages software on a computer to fast rip. If the MD discs were recorded on earlier non Hi-MD machines I still have to go with real time recording. > > Martin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim Sam > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:31 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Minidisc players > > The last "Walkman" MD player that Sony made (Model MZ-M200) could rip the audio way faster than real-time playback. I've found it enormously helpful, though I think it recently went out of production/manufacture. If no retailer has one, there's always eBay. > > Related, a quick thank you to Richard Hess for previously mentioning that machine on the ARSC list. > > Jim > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Brian Carpenter<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My institution just accessioned a collection of oral history >> recordings that includes 133 Minidiscs. So, now need to purchase a Minidisc player. >> However, all we'll do with it is migrate the data off the discs once >> and probably never use the machine again. Are there any particular >> specs I should look out for in shopping for a player, or will a >> simple one suffice for this purpose? >> >> Any tips much appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Brian >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------ >> Brian Carpenter >> Mellon Digital Audio Archivist >> >> American Philosophical Society >> 105 South Fifth Street >> Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 >> (215) 440-3418 -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.