Re: [linux-minidisc] Problem connecting to an RH1 on Win XP SP3

[Andrew White <whiteacc@yahoo.co.uk>]

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