Re: MD: about NetMD, can it do SP? -- And: NetMD upload path

[Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor]

Brian Youn writes:

> Having owned the new Sony Clie, I can say with all certainty that the 
> current versions of OpenMG Jukebox don't allow for anything above the 132 
> kbps ATRAC3 format, and that was with version 2.1... so is version 2.2 
> (which is what was announced with the MZ-N1) going to add the codec/encoder 
> for the standard 292 kbps ATRAC?  I really doubt that personally...

"Matt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The only thing i can see of that maybe say's otherwise is i believe that in
> one of the press releases that it said compatible with all older units, so
> sp should be ok.  now if i am wrong then you are correct that sp wont be in
> there, but i hope i read the release correctly.

I agree with Matt. From the original press release:

        Because Net MD will accept current MiniDiscs and will be
        compatible with both ATRAC and ATRAC3 audio codecs, Net MD
        recordings can also be played on existing MD products.
and:
        2) Compatibility with the existing MD hardware: 
           To ensure backward compatibility with existing MD products,
           Net MD will support both ATRAC and ATRAC3 audio compression
           technologies. Music recorded in ATRAC3 must be played in
           ATRAC3 compliant devices.

This clearly indicates that SP mode will be supported.

What I'm still thinking about is the report from the folks at
My-Minidisc.de of their experience at IFA with download *and upload*
of data. I talked to them on the phone about this, and they were quite
clear that upload was being carried out. They tried it themselves on a
Sony VAIO hitched to a NetMD unit (I think it was a deck).

This is a major improvement over the current state of affairs for
those wishing to move audio from MD to PC. My question is, what are
the properties of audio upload? Is the track deleted from the MD after
you upload it? Are you allowed a limited number of uploads?

And given that OpenMG Jukebox 2.1 already supports .WAV, .WMA and .MP3
download (via an internal transcoding to ATRAC3 step) I think NetMD
will be very interesting after all.

Does anyone know what the download speed of MP3 audio to a Memorystick
Walkman is? Is it limited by the transcoding step, or the Memorystick
interface bandwidth?

Is there a good newsgroup for Sony OpenMG and Memorystick Walkmans?

Rick
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