Hey John! Thank you for the very detailed response! And you totally nailed it: MZ-RH10 =). I would have gotten the MZ-RH1 if it wasn’t so expensive o.o… The HiMDTransfer program that Sony offers is PPC only, therefore, a nono for intel-based Macs. So I am using a VM with WinXP at the moment, but bringing that up is not always very pleasant for just moving/copying some music data to the device. Especially when I am managing a whole audiobook, the software within the VM tends to become rather fuzzy. I am glad to hear the project is still active, so I will keep my fingers crossed for when I can abandon my VM to actualy transfer the files using just my Mac. Hope you can find some time soon - but good luck in general! Kind regards, Ingwie. Am 25.03.2014 um 22:16 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>: > Hi Kevin! > > On 03/25/2014 09:25 AM, Kevin Ingwersen wrote: >> I just picked up my MiniDisc for storing my school data again today, >> and remembered that I forgot to transfer an audiobook I need to >> listen for class to it. But then I realized, that the version >> of the QHiMDTransfer I have has this problem with transfering music >> to the device. So I wanted to ask if this has been made working and >> available in the upstream version? > > What kind of MiniDisc device are you using? Are we talking about NetMD > or HiMD? Guessing from the statement that you are using your MiniDisc > recorder as an external USB disk, I'm assuming you are talking about > HiMD. > > Currently, transferring tracks to HiMDs is only supported as an > experimental feature for MP3 files which can only played back on > the more recent HiMD models (second generation, such as the MZ-RH10). > > Transferring ATRAC3+ or PCM files is a bit more sophisticated as it > requires proper DRM keys to be calculated and the tracks to be > encrypted and signed. Thus, this is rather a goal that will be > implemented after all other features are in. > > There is, however, an exception to this rule and it applies to the > MZ-RH1/MZ-MH100/MZ-MH200 MiniDisc models. These models were designed > to allow track transfers from MacOS X to MiniDisc. Since the very > minimal transfer application for MacOS X, HiMDMusicTransfer for MacOS, > does not know how to calculate the DRM keys, the aforementioned models > actually can calculate those keys themselves. It might therefore be > feasible to implement ATRAC3+/PCM track transfer for these models. > > As for the project in general, it's not dead. Thomas Arp has sent in > a number of patches which add additional transfer capabilities for > NetMD devices which are due to be reviewed. However, I have been swamped > with work since January, both with my real-life job and my work in > Debian, so it won't probably be before April when I have time to sit > down and review the patches. I will need some more time for the review > since I have to test the patches with actual MiniDisc hardware to make > sure everything works fine and our users don't fry their MiniDisc > devices ;). > > Cheers, > > Adrian