There's a real-time solution that catures the digital stream while the PCM is being "played" back on the PC.
I can in no way vouch for this. I only know what I've read in the forums myself.
Excuse me... but I'm going to re-post some of the discussion here (with full props to the orig author (not me))
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Minidisc Community Forum Index :: General Format-Related Discussions :: Hi-MD :: Suggested method for uploading recordings from Hi-MD
AuthorMessagedex Otaku
Versed Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:44 am | Post subject: Suggested method for uploading recordings from Hi-MD
This has come up several times already, and I've already posted it in another thread, but I'm doing it again under its own thread so it's easy to find. Perhaps this should be stickied?
After discussion with Jadeclaw and enough personal experience with my NH700 and SonicStage, this is the method I have settled on for transferring recordings from my Hi-MD to my computer.. First and foremost, it requires that you be using Total Recorder. It is available from High Criteria at a rather nominal cost of $11.95USD, which is well worth paying considering what it does. The following assumes that you already have Total Recorder installed.
* Open both SonicStage [SS] and Total Recorder [TR]
* Plug in your Hi-MD via USB and insert the disc to copy tracks from. I'd suggest plugging it in to its AC adapter as well, if it's a model without a dock.
* Press record in TR
* In SS, play the track you wish to record from the Hi-MD itself. DO NOT TRANSFER THE RECORDINGS TO YOUR COMPUTER FIRST.
* Repeat as necessary to capture all your tracks in WAV format, making sure to save each track in TR and start a new one before continuing on with the next track in SS.
* If you are really paranoid, now would be the time to clean up the recorded tracks [removing glitches from beginning and end] and write them to CD-R as a backup. [Note: writing them to audio CD is far less reliable a backup method than as WAVs to CD-R, simply because of the nature of CD audio.]
* When you're done recording your tracks to WAV, THEN transfer the tracks using SS.
I also go so far as to rename tracks on the Hi-MD before uploading, and matching the names on disc/in SS to the ones I save from TR. Please note as well that this isn't the -correct- way to do things. It's just the way I've figured is the safest at this point, since it's obvious that SS 2.1 has some rather nasty bugs that occasionally eat irreplacable tracks when you're trying to upload.
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