He's talking about a MD Player "Mini-DiscMan?". That is Mini-Disc, as in little disc, enclosed in semi-transparent case (kinda looks like a floppy disc, with a little protective door, and all). Sony, probably is the most prolific manufacturer of this these devices. I have an in-dash player in my car, and a little portable player/recorder, 1/2 the size of my iPod. You can record 75 or 80 minutes of music on each disc. ???? I know, but these are the two sizes available?? (newer players will record up to 5 hours, however, this is in "monaural" mode -read: sounds like crap, but good for live voice recordings...). The technology is seasoned at this point, it is basically the same as CD, but the high and low frequencies (not heard(?) by the human ear) are not burned into the disc during the recording process, thus allowing for the compact nature of the medium. You can record onto the discs many times, like a CDRW. The newer players do come with, what Sony calls the iLink(?) or something like that. It is basically a usb cable and Windoze software. I guess, the deal is that you could record the 80 minutes in less time by getting the thing synced up with the Win-DOS box. (i.e. it currently takes me 80 minutes to record an 80 minute iTunes song list through the analog sound out (headphone) mini-jack on my Ti, using a male to male analog cable running into the analog/digital(!)...Apple, can you say Digital out??... in-jack of the MD player/recorder. After exhaustive research I have found no available remedy for usb sync with Mac. Perhaps this should be my first Cocoa late-nite stay up? At any rate, the technology is solid, the disc sounds great in my vehicle (sounds just as good as iPod in the car) running through a big ADS amp, a 12 inch sub and some MB Quart Separates. (I like the "smallness" of the M-Discs because you can throw 1 in the player and stash 4 in the ashtray and you basically have tunes in the car for a few days and they never get scratched). When I record from my Ti I run iTunes EQ flat and volume about 50 percent, the Ti Volume at about 50 percent (my MD player has adjustable record volume and i run it at about 70 percent... after several tests for the best level in my circumstance... I just try not to overdrive the signal coming out of the Ti, too much. The earlier post is correct. If you want to have separate songs on the MD you have to use the iTunes controls wisely. I got my stuff, probably 3 years ago and it has performed solid to this point (all Sony gear). So, if you don't mind the 80 minutes to record each disc, it is great stuff, medium is pretty cheap, too! Sorry, don't mean to ramble.... hope this helps. (Oh, yeah MD is great and people still flip out when you show it to them, but hey baby, it's an iPod world now!) ... Also, beware (at least on my TiBook 667 30/512 pre-DVI) while recording I have had skips in the sound output while doing other things on the computer. A good example is surfing the web through airport/Cable Modem... When a download hits your computer the sound just starts breaking up skipping and popping... I have researched this and appears to be, just another issue, with the Ti (i.e. xlr8yr mac guy said lot's of people have complained about this...as well as the blown FW port on the TiBooks, like mine
...sorry for taking up so much of your forum. later.
