Well, some comments below, and I have started an eGroup for anyone who is interested:
groups.yahoo.com/group/minidisc_hacking
PS - thanks for the service manual, 12.50 from sony is a bit much...
> re: Drag and Drop: all you need is to write a filesystem driver for your
> favorite operating system. The MiniDisc TOC is a pretty simple structure,
I have looked over the TOC, and was shocked how simple it was. Simply a matter of
reading
and writing it correctly. I would not mind using Linux, but don't know much about it...
> re: ATRAC1, ATRAC3: ATRAC3 is already a done deal. You can download a codec
> from www.minidisc.org and use it to your heart's content. ...but close enough to
>modify
> to fit. Getting the actual on-disk data structures decoded correctly might be a
> challenge.
I've downloaded it already, but, was wondering if it could encode ATRAC1. Now, if we
could just access the on disc structures of a recorded disc...
> I've recently obtained a Sony MDM-X4 (4 track recorder) to accompany my
> MDH-10. It records on MD-Data discs, but so far the format has been
> unreadable on my MDH-10. The MDH-10 is smart enough to know that MD-Audio
> discs use 2336 byte blocks, and regular MD-Data discs use 2048 byte blocks.
> Unfortunately, MD-Data discs used in pro recorders actually use 2332 byte
> blocks, and I haven't found the proper command yet to reset the block size
> to get it to read...
Interesting. Maybe the firmware simply directs the disc by byte blocks, and not on the
ID
Tag at the beginning of a disc (Identifier? not too sure about it though)
> By the way, what firmware version is on your MDH-10?
I will chack, assume 1.11, though. I don't know how to hack firmware, do you have any
ideas?
Thanks!
John Pariseau
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