Hi Adrian,Thank you for this - but I've decided to stick with Sonicstage. I'm always tempted to explore new tools but on Windows I fear there will be no net time saving!
Kind regards Andy On 04/02/2011 13:10, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Andrew, On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Andrew White wrote:Hi there, I've got a very basic question. Apologies if I should have found documentation which covers this, I did search but did not find any.No, people are always welcome to ask :).I can't work out how to make QHiMD see and connect to the RH1. When I click "connect" I get a window of drives etc, but none of them seems to be the RH1. This is the same window which My Computer shows. There are 4 "removable discs" shown but none of them seems to be the RH1.It looks like you are trying to upload (copy yo PC) standard MiniDiscs to your PC. While the MZ-RH1 acts like a USB mass storage device when inserting a HiMD, meaning that it's drive letter will show up under "My Computer", it behaves differently when inserting a standard MiniDisc, i.e. a MiniDisc that was recorded with a classic, non-HiMD recorder or on an HiMD recorder in "Standard Mode". When connecting your HiMD Walkman with a standard MiniDisc inserted, it will switch into NetMD transfer mode where no drive letter shows under "My Computer". Unfortunately, QHiMDTransfer does not yet support NetMD transfers, however, we have written some experimental scripts in Python which just allow these NetMD transfers. Instructions on how to use these scripts can be found at [1]. Basically, you will need to setup Python on your Windows computer together with a different USB driver for your MiniDisc device. The advantage of NetMDPython over SonicStage is that you can actually batch control the NetMD uploads (since those are command line utilities) and all music is uploaded in native ATRAC-SP format (while SonicStage always converts all uploaded tracks either into PCM or ATRAC3). It's actually much easier to use the Python scripts on Linux or MacOS, the installation on Windows can be a bit tricky but it has been reported to work and users have uploaded many tracks with this method already. Adrian [1] https://wiki.physik.fu-berlin.de/linux-minidisc/doku.php?id=netmdpython