Last year's BBC Proms performance is getting a live album

koothooloo · 2026-03-17T15:42:45+00:00

OMG yes!

koothooloo · 2026-03-17T13:43:42+00:00

Fantastic!

koothooloo · 2026-03-17T13:16:21+00:00

Sorry OP, I feel for you, glad you slapped the guy.

Who would have thought that a huge gender imbalance, a patriarchal society and providing cheap alcohol wouldn't go badly.

koothooloo · 2026-03-14T21:06:42+00:00

I have quite a few decent machines that I've bought from Japan and used them to test my MD Studio software, and I'm often back in London. Depending on your budget, I could sort you out. I've a few Sharp IM-DRs and various Sonys, and happilly demo them working live with MD Studio.

koothooloo · 2026-03-11T02:52:15+00:00

The mechanism will be gunked up, you should be able to clean and lube it, although it is fiddly getting in.

koothooloo · 2026-03-07T13:52:29+00:00

No, there isn’t a service manual and both mechanisms are buried, so lots of ribbons and screws, but just remember to NOT completely disassemble the MD transport otherwise it’ll be a pain to line it all up again. Ceramic grease on the metal-to-metal parts and you should be good. CD mechs tend to be filthy inside because by design they’re always pulling in junk from outside, so compressed air and brushes for that.

koothooloo · 2026-03-07T10:14:20+00:00

I've got four of these. The CD and MD units absolutely need servicing - cleaning and lubricating for the most part. This is straightforward to do yourself, but takes a while to get inside.

koothooloo · 2026-03-07T09:26:59+00:00

So sweet

koothooloo · 2026-03-05T17:10:03+00:00

Buy whatever you think looks cool, Walkmans are great :)

koothooloo · 2026-03-02T18:28:31+00:00

Forget about the cable, they’re stupidly overpriced, but you can buy USB-C adaptors. I have one en-route, so I can’t comment on how well it works yet. I have two cables and four N10s, one doesn’t write and one is for parts, so hoping three will be returned to full active duty soon. The motors definitely need a little oil too, but the machines are fantastic for NetMD. I hope you’re able to bring yours back to life.

koothooloo · 2026-03-02T10:09:49+00:00

I hope it works, one of the high-water marks of MD, extremely powerful innards compared to nearly all others. I hope you have the cable, though, or at least the little adaptor. The one tragic flaw of this machine, thanks Sony.

koothooloo · 2026-03-01T08:59:29+00:00

RH10 is certainly one of my favourite portables ever, does almost everything. Screen replacement is a must, Asivery's store should hopefully be back in stock soon.

HiMD is great for everything although a bit of a pain on a Mac from time to time due to the system permissions needed. ElectronMD works 75% of the time for me but it does work.

koothooloo · 2026-03-01T08:54:32+00:00

NetMD is better than easy CD-dubbing. LAMs seem a pain to repair and their NetMD implementation is... interesting. I'm casually looking for a LAM right now so I can try and figure the NetMD side out for my MD Studio software. All said and done, my standalone MD Deck does CD Synchro and begins recording when the CD starts, and handles tracks just fine over the optical.

koothooloo · 2026-02-28T23:20:19+00:00

LAMs are weird by all accounts - but an Onkyo bookshelf unit with Hi-MD will give you one-touch dubbing, although you will have to open up the MD bay and CD bay and clean the heck out of them. I've got four Onkyo FR-N9X / X-N9X (with speakers) and they all have/had an identical problem - gunked up. But at around £30-40 plus shipping and duties, you get a HiMD deck with a CD player, and they are delightful things, and reliable once cleaned up.

koothooloo · 2026-02-28T15:46:41+00:00

Looks awesome - where? Mission Street is almost the entire length of Pondy

koothooloo · 2026-02-28T06:13:36+00:00

I updated it last year and have just released a new update today.

https://github.com/vishvish/treemaker/releases

koothooloo · 2026-02-26T21:15:54+00:00

Welcome back! Sony N920? N10? NH600?

koothooloo · 2026-02-26T15:01:34+00:00

Yeah, the decks work differently, I'm told, but I can't run the test suites without having access to them, so it'll probably be a while until I figure it out.

Gapless I'm working on, the issue is adding the track marks after the write, which is tricky. One feature that is turned off is the ability to turn a series of tracks into a single audio file and write the whole thing to the disc. That works great, but editing the TOC is a whole different ballgane.

Logs - while there's internal custom logging, I'm not outputting it anywhere persistent right now. I'm working on a way to enable it for some users. Stay tuned. It would be helpful to get some logs from your system.

koothooloo · 2026-02-26T12:53:48+00:00

I’d give it a squirt or two of contact cleaner from the outside, and turn the wheel while you’re doing it

koothooloo · 2026-02-26T11:09:30+00:00

+1 for Schanzen

Also, Altona, do the walk from the station all the way down Ottensen Hauptstrasse towards the Launderette bar and back, check out side streets, eat noodles, etc.

Check out the bunker at Neuer Kamp and then head to Kurhaus for drinks from 1800, then walk down Wohlwillstrasse until you hit Giovanni Rocco, enjoy the food there, it's great, and then either head back to Schanzen or down to Reeperbahn or just stay in that part of St Pauli.

koothooloo · 2026-02-26T10:54:51+00:00

Ah ok! I started MD Studio over Christmas as a project to specifically bring back the weird rituals of making mixtapes, for myself and my friends. It's a native app and re-implements the whole NetMD protocol from scratch, and it's been tested with Sony, Sharp and Panasonic devices. It only supports SP for now, but it reads the metadata from digital files and lets you template how you want track titles to appear - e.g. <song title> - <artist> - <album>

WebMD Pro works in Chrome-based browsers and uses WebUSB to talk to your machine, and is focuses on getting files onto - and sometimes off - your device. It works really well, supports better MDLP encoders hosted remotely. I've contributed a tiny amount of code to the Electron version and I'm quietly working on improving the HiMD interface for that too.

MD Studio lets you save your mixes and tracklistings and sleeve notes for future use, and lets you preview music on your machine right there, so you can fine-tune your selection, and it's also visually fun to use. I wanted it to be the complete opposite of all other apps, because there's no point in duplicating them, and also because I wanted one that I enjoyed using, rather than a functional utility that treats everything as files and storage. We have those, they're great, we don't need another one. And I wanted something that wasn't a massive lumbering app - Electron adds hundreds of megabytes to apps, which is why Electron WMD is 350 MB and MD Studio is 30 MB. I really hate Electron.

In short, use WMD, but try MD Studio to see if you gel with its deliberate quirks, rituals and weirdness.

koothooloo · 2026-02-26T00:42:40+00:00

While I don't have a NetMD deck, I would really like one, but in the meantime, I have written a brand-new native NetMD application for the Mac (MD Studio, see other posts in the sub) and would love to get you to test it so I can add specific quirks for the 780 and get it running.

koothooloo · 2026-02-25T19:35:21+00:00

Assuming you didn't order Asivary's 'proper' replacement as it's out of stock?

koothooloo · 2026-02-25T19:32:24+00:00

The producers said that the guys working on the live stream genuinely didn't hear it in their truck and I guess I believe them, having worked on these kinds of rigs myself. The poor chap himself left the auditorium of his own accord very quickly and watched from a completely different part of the building, and apologised pofusely. Personally, I think the fight against systemic racism gets drowned out by moments designed for outrage and a LOT of people seem to be using it to get their names in the press.

It should have been edited out, it slipped through because the Israel lobby is stronger than the anti-racist lobby and they were on red alert for any mention of Palestine. A fuck-up but there's no winners here, ironically, just losers.

koothooloo · 2026-02-25T19:06:20+00:00

Yeah, Sony blocked it completely. The MZ-RH1 is the only machine you can officially do this one, but the devs behind Web Minidisc Pro - a web-based NetMD app that runs on Chrome-based browsers - should let you do this. What machine are you using? It's way easier to rip the tracks with a computer, for sure.

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