Re: [linux-minidisc] Sony MZ-NH900 Ubuntu 11.10
Hi.
Le mercredi 29 février 2012 01:32:54, Haydn Flower a écrit :
> dump_md.py appears to work and creates .ogg files, but I need to play
> around with my Mixer so it records from the correct sound stream.
> I can hear the Minidisc spinning and starting to play so assume the USB
> commands are reaching the player, I just need to figure out where the sound
> is going.
Just to make it clear (you didn't mention if you did), you need to plug the
minidisk analog output into some sound card input for this to work. It uses
USB only for remote controling the minidisk. I didn't try harder because my
model doesn't support USB transfer from minidisk to host anyway.
> Is this because of the secret keys mentioned in the FAQ and elsewhere
> or/and because you haven't got a NH900 to test with?
I guess the traceback you got probably ends up in readReply method, and the
exception is not the bare NotImplemented python exception but rather
NetMDNotImplemented. If so, it means your model doesn't support digital
transfer (or in a way different from the few model who does, but that sounds
unlikely). That exception is just the pythonic translation from an error
status code received from the minidisc player.
> i can read C and Python but more comfortable coding in PHP and would like
> to help
AFAIK, the python code is currently bit-rotting. It was a way to quickly
experiment with the upload protocol as it was understood (...not by me, I just
implemented what was already documented - most of libnetmd, lsmd, mdctl and
dump_md). The functions are/have been/will be implemented in a non-python
program for easier installation (especially on windows, where python is not
commonly available).
Regards,
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Vincent Pelletier
