Hello Team,
not sure where to post this, but with a flurry of MD related discussion at the moment in this neck of the woods, I'll try here!
I'll cut a long story short.
I am recording a longterm serialised audio project on HI-MD and occasionally archive it to CD through Sonicstage/HI-MD music transfer. (for PC at that time.)
Last night I thought it would be hilarious to download HI-MD music transfer for Mac 2 from Sony.. (I am now doing post-production in Mac) Incredibly, it works and gives functionality to the footage that was previously locked inside the HI-MD discs.
Whilst tidying up the disc, which was still in the MD machine through the software on the Mac, I deleted stuff I did not intend to. I have the material already backed up onto a CD through the aforementioned archiving process and so loaded it to the Mac and tried to drag it back onto the original MD so as maintain a complete copy in the original media. Music Transfer for Mac wouldn't support it as the the material on the HI-MD is .WAV where as the imported archived material was showing as AIFF. Thinking this could be the way that iTunes interferes with the process, I imported the files from the archived CD into ProTools and then bounced 'em back to the desktop which produced .WAVs but Music Transfer won't accept them.
The MD machine starts to whizz-up and a transfer window appears but then the process stalls; "information cannot be written" I get as a message.
Is this as good as it gets with Music Transfer for Mac (I'm not expecting much) or have I missed something in files types; is there still a chance??
I saw the thread the other day about the open source HI-MD NET python transfer software...
Thanks
JimP