Hell Yes! I got my digital usb pc link to work with my sony minidisc recorder.... OUT OF THE BOX! I was so sure i'd have to configure soun dcards, or go through some sort of learning-fun...but.. linux comes through again!

Glad to hear of your success. I'm considering buying one of the Sony MD players, but haven't found much Linux-related info on it. Does it just appear as an USB mass-storage device? If you transfer MP3s to it, does the unit actually recognize the tracks, or does some sort of index need to be created?

I haven't messed with any type of portable audio players under Linux, so please pardon my questions.

mike

sounds very promissing!.. I to have som thought on getting one of those net-MDs.. Are they werth the money? or is it better to get lets say an ipod..

I thought about getting an IPod or portible mp3 player. I decided to go with the sony minidisk as well.
Though I havent started an attempt to getting it running in linux, I am very happy with it. Just as good, if not better than any mp3 player I have seen. Especially if your considering cost. I like having interchangable disks, versus cycling through menu's to get the songs i want.
Sound quality is as good as you want it to be, you can split songs (albums, genre's etc) into groups, and many other things.
Best gadget I have purchased in a looong time. Go for it.

I have a Minidisc pllayer, but have not had any luck finding a way to use it with linux. Please let me know how you got the usb cable to see the unit as a MSD. Thanks for any help

doesn't ye'r minidisks require OpenMG or Realplayers plugin, to convert to attrac format???

Do you mean in Windows.... because I do not use the OpenMG software. to get music onto my player I use the Nero/Simple Burner approach.

If you are talking about a plugin for Linux..........then ???

Well you see I have a Net md n707 type r. And i've been clueless as to how to do the transfer in Linux. In windows i have to use the RealOne plugin that transfers and deletes as OpenMG doesn't work in win98se due to a M$ f'up. And I hate being in windows to download music as i hate kazaa and love linux and limewire so i want to be able to transfer to the Md without having to burn to cdrw and then load em into windows. Any Ideas?

I think the reason theres nothign for linux is that SONY made the attrac format to stop counterfeit so they arnt going to release the source in a hurry and i dont think they like linux either.

How did you do it wdavidson?

Would love to hear how to do it to wdavidson, I got a Sony MD to but haven't figured out how to do it with linux yet.

same here, ive been googling, checking newsgroups, looking on other forum sites. Nothing yet.....

news flash!
well the only thing i found is that the people at debian are working on an app to get NetMD devices working. Thats about if for now

Hey cool, thats the best news ina while, Got the link for it?

you can try this

Hi can you post a small howto please!

What packages are needed? Where can I get them?

I think you could help lot of people with that information.

Thanks a lot

Oetzi