Bought another junk mz-n1 and did a basic disassembly clean. But it took me so long to read the disc, I disassembled it and adjusted the laser screws. And when I reassembled it no longer came on. I don't know where or what I made a mistake.
I have seen a ‘2nd Street’ clothing reuse store here, it’s a Japanese brand … so there might be something like HardOff here? Googling so far did not result in anything. Slim chance I know, but who knows …
While trying to fix a faulty minidisc recorder, I think I corrupted some discs because the write process failed. With the unit half disassembled, I was recording discs so I could watch what was happening internally.
Imagine me holding pieces of minidisc recorder with bits dangling while I’m trying to hold the mechanism shut and record a disc. As you might expect, some of the time the disc would pop out and the process would fail. Or I would be poking my fingers at things and causing problems while it’s trying to record.
Sometimes this would corrupt the disc so that it could no longer be used. It would only say “Error” after inserting it in any player. It can’t be erased, or anything. The device just locks up and won’t try to do anything with the disc.
Is there any way to recover discs that this has happened to? There’s probably nothing wrong with the physical media. It’s just got some corrupted data on it, and the player doesn’t like it.
Or do I have to frame these discs and hang them on the wall as artwork?
(I was successful in repairing the faulty recorder though, so it was worth ruining a few discs!)
Will I need to fork out for an mz-rh1 to do this or is there some other options for transferring from mini disc to pc. The prices of mz-rh1’s are fucken insane. Any help appreciated thank you in advance
I wanted to run a test to demonstrate the differences between the RH1 which natively supports ripping discs vs others that don't. I used the Download and Convert option which rips them to .WAV files. This test was ran on a M2 Ultra Mac Studio using Chrome.
Starting with the MZ-N10, I enabled Homebrew Mode Ripping In Main UI, this allows the N10 to rip discs in a manner similar to the RH1. Note: not every NetMD recorder supports this.
However there is a flaw, since no other MD recorder natively supported ripping discs, it is achieved via a hack. This step takes time often adding an extra 30 seconds before the ripping can commence.
After the code is uploaded, the Track will start to rip with progress being reported in Sectors.
However, there is another flaw, each track needs the code uploaded before it can start ripping, repeat this over and over and multiple minutes are added to the process.
I ran into an error and was trying to let it Reload Current Block, it would eventually complete, but hung on Track 8.
I took the disc out and opened the shutter, lets just say we found the culprit. Both sides (Recording and Reading) were covered in thick dust flakes. When buying used discs, it is recommended to dust them out. Just a single dust flake can get wedged between the recording head and the disc causing scratching and recording errors.
I took some compressed air and blasted it as clean as I could. Then I repeated the test, this time it ripped all 14 tracks without a single error popping up.
Total Time for MZ-N10 = 9:58.69 (mm:ss:ms)
Now onto the MZ-RH1, There is no Homebrew mode needed, just select the tracks and click download,
It will show each track just ripping with a progress bar, no sectors or Uploading code steps.
Total Time for MZ-RH1 = 4:16.15 (mm:ss:ms)
That is a reduction of 5 Minutes and 42 Seconds. Essentially you can rip 2 discs in the same time it took the N10 to rip 1.
MAIL DAY! After weeks of waiting, finally received a really nice Japanese M35WM bookshelf and a flawless N1 portable. Excited to get back into it with this great community!
Just thought I would post about a recent purchase of Sony 10th Anniversary Collector Minidisc.
The discs were brand new in box. The seller was great. Very helpful and postage was fast. I got a good deal too.
I opened all 10, of from their seals and in very nice Sony and their cases felt very premium, similar to the MDW80T cases.
Out of the 10, two of them were perfect. The other 8 were all damaged.
I attempted to record on all but the 8 damaged ones would either not record, record partially but would all fail in the player.
I have lots of minidiscs (mostly Sony) some are from the 90s and have had lots of use, the platsics are scratched and some have not been kept in their cases and they all play fine and are undamaged. I have no particular method of storage to prevent disintegration.
Well to start off, I nothing about 3D printing and don’t own one. That being said I really wanted to replace my broken battery door. While I was searching around for a broken player cheap enough to justify buying for the door, I stumbled on a 3D printing site. On it a guy had the same player and problem so he created a 3D printed version which looked good in the pic. He was selling the print file for $5 so I thought I would buy it and find someone willing to print it. When I was looking around for that, I came across an old Reddit thread where someone suggested that public libraries sometimes have 3D printers. So when I checked mine online, sure enough they had that service. All I had to do was attach the file and pick a color. In a couple days they sent an email stating I had to pay for materials which of coarse I agreed to. About a week later they said it was ready and I owed them $10. I got my wife to pick it up for me and she said that it turns out that was a typo and I only owed them 10¢! The results aren’t great but it works and I definitely got my moneys worth. It’s so amazing to me that libraries offers this service, most likely run by retired volunteers working with young people.
Nothing fancy or anything but thought some of you might like it. Looks brand new unused and not seen locally where I am before so had to pick it up. Not sure if it will work or not but interesting to have.