Re: [linux-minidisc] linux-minidisc Digest, Vol 31, Issue 13

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:27:49PM -0700, Jurgen. wrote:
> When do you think that ATRAC 3+ download is ready?

This is something I am sorry I cannot tell you. Being able to download
anything other than MP3 is quite difficult because of the DRM (Michael
is able to tell you more on that).

For non-MP3 tracks, the DRM is mandatory for the Walkman to properly
play the tracks. The access rights and expiration dates for a license
of a track have to be properly set and keys have to be calculated,
it's unfortunately anything but trivial according to my current
knowledge.

> And / or MP3 download on the Windows version?

This currently being worked on, just follow the mailing list. FYI,
there is no feature which is platform-specific (with the exception
with the HiMD medium auto-detection). Thus, if MP3 download is
implemented in the GUI, it will be available to *all* platforms where
the code compiles.

Also, you can actually already use MP3 downloads on Windows, it's just
not supported in the GUI yet. You can use the "himdcli.exe" terminal
application (and "netmdcli.exe" for NetMD downloads and uploads - the
latter is supported on the MZ-RH1/M200 *only* due to hardware
restrictions).

Adrian