RealOne w/NetMD Plugin (RealAudio/Windows only):RealAudio has announced a NetMD plug-in for their MP3/streamingmedia player software. The plugin can be downloaded from within thefree version of the RealOne application (download) by following these instructions:(Version 2) On the View menu, click Devices. Under Devices double-click Add A New Device On the pop up Preferences Window, under Deivces click Add A New Device. RealOne connects to its mothership server andlists all applicable portable device plug-ins. Click the "Sony Music Devices" check-box. It then asks you to "Click the Install button", do this. When RealOne player completes the download and installation, click "OK" to restart it.(Older Version) On the Tools menu, click Check for Update. In the AutoUpdate window, click Devices. Select Sony Music Devices Plug-in and click Install. When installation is complete, click OK to restart RealOne PlayerSony also has instructions for downloading and using RealOne Player.Sony Software Sonic Stage (Sony/Windows only):Supercedes OpenMG Jukebox (see below) as principal Sony tool for downloading audio to NetMD devices. Shipswith 2003 portables (MZ-NE410, ... MZ-N10). OpenMG Jukebox2.2 (Sony/Windows only): This is the primary tool Sonyprovides with their NetMD equipment. Also supplied with Sony'ssolid-state music players (MemoryStick and Network Walkman), it allowsdownloading of compressed audio to the NetMD unit, as well as titlingand track renumbering. OpenMG Jukebox supports the SDMI concept oftrack "check-out", wherein at most 3 copies can be downloaded toMinidisc before a "check-in" is required (the check-in operationdeletes the downloaded audio track from the Minidisc). Simple Burner (Sony/Windows only): This software isshipped with Sony's US NetMD units (download) and simplifies the downloading of tracksfrom PC-mounted audio CDs to Minidisc. The SDMI check-in/check-outrestriction is absent in this software and downloaded tracks maysubsquently be deleted from the Minidisc. Unfortunately, Simple Burnerdoes not support SP mode downloads. Beat Jam (JustSystem Inc./Windows only):Supplied with Panasonic's NetMD equipment (mech trans of BeatJam announcement).Muria (Kenwood/Windows Only): Suppliedwith Kenwood's MDX-J9 NetMD boombox.InterJuke (JVC/Windows Only): Supplied withthe JVC SS-NT1MD mini-compo system.Non-commercial(Note that none of the non-commercial packages providehigh-speed downloading from a PC or Mac since the secure DRM aspectsof the NetMD USB protocol have not been cracked) Open/NMD Project (Open source community/Unix,Linux and MacOS): In development; currently allows tracktitling and renumbering via shell commands. WinNetMD (Christian Klukas/Windows): In development, currentlyallows analog, realtime uploading from NetMD equipment to PC. Windows GUIand command line based versions available. Xmdv0.1 (Open Source Community, Pete Bentley/MacOS X, Darwin,FreeBSD, etc.): In development, currently only playback and titling functions arepresent.M3U2Sburner (Paolo Sessa/Windows) M3U2SB automatesthe download of mp3 files to NetMD, using the procedure suggested by Dino. It will also extract titles frommp3 files and put them into the Simple Burner database so they don'tneed to be inserted manually.SimplerMD (ClintMers/Windows) Similar to M3U2SB, SimplerMD automates theNero->SimpleBurner route, even handling more songs than can fit ona single CD.GNetMD (Pete Ryland/Unix/Linux). A free suite oftools for using NetMD on Unix and Unix-like systems. It currentlyincludes an xmms plugin and a GNOME2.0 GUI and a gnome-vfs layer iscurrently in development.
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PC to MD Download Only Only audio downloads (PC->MDtransfers) are possible. Presumably for reasons of digital rightsmanagement, audio uploading (MD->PC) is not possible. (If thisstrikes you as oppressive, please consider sending polite email to [email protected]; Sony staffers compile andreport customer email comments on NetMD uploading to Robert Ashcroft,US VP of Portable Audio. We petitioned Sony on this topic last year, but have yetto see any result). SP-mode Quality not Available Users can create SP, LP2and LP4 mode tracks on Minidisc through OpenMG Jukebox downloads, butaudio imported into OpenMG Jukebox (from CD, MP3, etc. sources) isconverted and stored on the PC only in LP2 or LP4 format ATRAC3files. So even when these files are downloaded onto the MD as SP modetracks, the tracks cannot exceed LP mode quality. NetMD downloadsthrough Simple Burner create only LP2 or LP4 mode tracks.
Known elements of the protocol: The Open/NMD project isdocumenting the protocol as it progresses.Further Protocol Documentation: The FreeMD documentation sheet has low level details of(known) NetMD USB transactions. Encrypted PCM transfers for SP mode tracks: Judgingfrom the careful experiments of Lance Birch, it appears thatwhen NetMD downloading is being used for creating Minidisc SP modetracks, the OpenMG software decompresses the [always LP2 or LP4 mode]PC file to standard 16bit, 44.1kHz PCM audio, encrypts it, anddownloads that. The fact that PCM is being used for recording SP modetracks is heartening since it indicates that NetMD downloadscould retain SP mode audio quality, given the right PCsoftware. Though current NetMD recorders reportedly offer only 1.6xspeed downloading for SP mode tracks, USB 1.1's 12Mbps bandwidth wouldallow downloads at up to 8x realtime. Certainly the technology inSony's MXD-D40 4x speedCD->MD dubbing deck could be directly applied for this purpose.The PCM is encrypted in transit because Sony is trying to preventunauthorized access to "locked" ATRAC3 audio that may have beenpurchased from online music distributors; failing to encrypt the PCMdata would allow hackers an easy way of making off with an "open" copyof the song.Unadulterated OpenMG file data transfers for LP2/LP4 modetracks : Birch's experiments reveal that the audio datatransferred over the USB link (sent in blocks of 4096 bytes) is nearlyidentical to the original contents of the OpenMG music files on thePC. Marc Britten comments "the data transferred is not 100%identical, approx every 3 1/2 blocks an 8 byte block of data isinserted (we think this is a key) and the 8 bytes of OMG data thatappeared just before that key is repeated."
Five easy steps to a clean and hassle free MP3->MD download Open Nero, select Audio CD from the presets and drag all the MP3's you want into it. Nero is far less picky about formats and sample rates. I found this method foolproof. Save or 'Burn' your CD to your hard drive (not your burner). Nero will give you a default filename of 'image.nrg' Use Nero's Imagedrive (bundled with Nero) to mount the.nrg (CD-image) you just created. Lets say Drive 'F' for this example.I am not an expert, but I found these first 3 steps took around 2minutes or less for a regular size audio CD (i.e. burning andconverting about 10 MP3 tracks to an audio CD 'image' on my harddrive). I have a 1GHz/PIII, so that helps with the MP3->PCMconversion times. A faster machine would mean proportionately fasterMP3 conversion and image creation. Select your 'virtual F' CD drive in Simple Burner and burn it to Minidisc. When you are done, trash the large .nrg file sitting on your desktop.If your machine is fairly fast then Simple Burner'sCD->ATRAC conversion is done in on-the-fly in RAM with the diskhardly ticking over at all.Advantages of this MethodYou are using reliable software.Checkin/checkout is avoided.Unlike OpenMG, files aren't left all over your hard drive.You can delete and re-arrange the downloaded tracks on your MD without having to resort toconnecting it back to your PC. It is faster and doesn't thrash your hard drive.
LP4 audio @ 32x download requires only2.1Mbps (i.e. 66kbps*32) LP2 audio @ 16x is2.1Mbps as well (i.e. 132kbps*16). SP mode audio at 1.6x is 2.25Mbps(i.e. 1411.2kbps*1.6). (Observing this, perhaps driver or interfaceproblems that restrict NetMD USB transfers to roughly 2.5Mbps reallyare limiting the speed of SP mode transfers! If so, the answer is yes, USB 2.0 would help, butso would simply fixing whatever the USB 1.1 problem is).
There was a download of Net MD Simple Burner 1.2.0 on the developer's website when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this software available. The actual developer of the free program is Sony Corporation.
According to the results of the Google Safe Browsing check, the developer's site is safe. Despite this, we recommend checking the downloaded files with any free antivirus software. The most popular versions among Net MD Simple Burner users are 1.2, 1.1 and 1.0. NetMDSB.exe is the most common filename for this program's installer. The software lies within System Utilities, more precisely System Optimization. This free PC software is developed for Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 environment, 32-bit version.
That said, our biggest complaint in the performance department involves the software rather than the hardware. Unfortunately, copyright protection handicaps what could have been a huge step for the MiniDisc format since MP3 players were previously the only portable audio devices to handle fast transfers from a computer. To be fair, the copyright-protection mechanism will accept any MP3, WAV, or WMA file, regardless of whether they were downloaded from file-sharing networks, ripped from your own CDs, or legally purchased. But before a file can be loaded onto the MZ-N1, the software must import and convert it to the secure OpenMG format. 2ff7e9595c
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