How To Put MP3s On Your Mini-Disc Player

[cmyden]

How To Put MP3s On Your Mini-Disc Player:

1. Open Nero, select Audio CD from the presets and drag all the MP3's you want into it. Nero isn't very picky about formats and sample rates.

2. Save or 'Burn' your cd to your hard drive (not your burner). Nero will give you a default filename of 'image.nrg'

3. Use Nero's imagedrive (bundled with nero) to mount the .nrg you just created. For this example, we'll use drive 'F'.

4. Select your 'virtual F' cd drive in Simple Burn & burn that sucker.

5. When you're done, trash the .nrg file sitting on your desktop (it's a large file).

If your machine is fairly fast then Simpleburns' CD-Atrak conversion is done in on-the-fly in RAM. Notice your HD doesn't tick over at all.

If you need links to Nero and Simple Burn, check out http://www.myden.net

chris

[notbob]

people have minidisc players?

nobody i know, and i know a lot of music-type people

[cmyden]

At the moment, the minidisc's largest market is in Japan. Nearly 50 percent of Japan's consumer audio recording media sales are generated by minidiscs. Europe is quickly catching on and the United States expects to reach the 50 percent level by the end of the decade. Sales of minidiscs are rising by as much as 20% each month and are expected to reach $5 million by the end of the year. In 1997, 6 million MiniDisc players were sold worldwide bringing the total number of units owned by consumers to 10 million. In Japan, MiniDisc players outsold CD players for the first time ever. As of a year ago, MiniDisc players were in 25% of Japanese homes.

So perhaps you simply don't know enough Japanese people. Or enough music-type Japanese people.

chris

[notbob]

the midwest isn't a big hub for the japanese (or for tech saavy early adopters)
at least i'm not in minnesota--that place is a technological wasteland

(of course this would be early adopters that adopted it 10 years ago, i don't even think most stores [other than large chains] even sell them anymore)

[hawkburn]

I only know two people with mini disc players, and they arent satisfied - they try to sell them to me.:mellow

[Jared592]

I think the way MiniDiscs are in a cartridge is kind of cool...it keeps the tiny optical disc inside from gettin' trashed...I wonder if that would've been the way to go with CDs and DVDs. It just seems funny how bare CDs and DVDs are compared to cassettes (VHS and audio)...Personally, I'm very careful with my DVDs and CDs, but I wonder how many customers a rental DVD goes through before it's scratched.

[fu(k]

MiniDiscs is DA WAY!!
:fire