MiniDisc Questions.

superleeds27 · 8 May 2012 at 13:00

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this but here goes!

My friend has a few Minidiscs with backing tracks on.

He wants me to bsically copy the contents off the minidisc onto CD's

Is there an easy way of doing this?

I have a few Minidisc players knocking about the house, just not sure if they have this ability or if its easily done with them

Sony MZ-N510
Sony MZ-R91
Sony MZ-N910

Nightglow · 8 May 2012 at 13:06

Disc are 8 cm CD-Rs, they will fit in my dvd player on the pc.
The tracks are MP3 I think, so you should be able to copy them, was there copy protection?

Sony MZ-R91 could transfer via USB port if my memory was correct?

superleeds27 · 8 May 2012 at 13:09

Wouldn't it mean opening the discs up though

Cant seem to find a lot for it though!

Nightglow · 8 May 2012 at 13:18

superleeds27 said:
Wouldn't it mean opening the discs up though!

The discs I have, are TDK mini discs came in a plastic case like present dvd, but smaller, sure I had them for my Sony MZ-R91 which had a Digital Link Cable RK G912 .

Long time ago now, I can't remember exactly.

Nightglow · 8 May 2012 at 13:22

See link for manual.

http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/MZ-R91/manuals

ssam · 9 May 2012 at 16:49

Nightglow said:
Disc are 8 cm CD-Rs, they will fit in my dvd player on the pc.

No they are magneto-optical disks. its a very different technology. They will not work in a standard optical drive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc

also IIRC they store audio at 48kHz instead of the 44kHz on CD. so if you can get a 48kHz digital file out then you will preserve more quality than going to audio CD.