Md Onto Mac Options

[GeoffG]

I'm a novice at this and hope my quesiton hasn't already been answered.

My wife has tons of dance stuff on minidisc and now wants to get it onto the Mac (running 10.4.3) so she can burn CDs. The problem is that her MD player doesn't have a line out. I have a Griffin iMic and was wondering whether it is possible to use the MD player headphones socket with a 2 x 3.5mm cable. If so, which socket on the iMic would I use? One has a microphone symbol, the other a loudspeaker.

For capture and editing I have previously used Peak LE3 with LPs and tapes and that seemed to work fine. Will this work with MD as source? I think I will have to get a new version (LE5 is advertised) to run with OSX.

Thanks for help.

Geoff.

[arvidtp]

yes, the headphone out is the same as a lineout - goes into the jack with the microhpone. The loudspeaker wwill be an output.

You can buy peak, or you can use free software - you can check it out on this site or on my list of free mac music software http://arvidtp.net/guide.html . Audacity would work fine... but the problem is it will only record from the built-in sound input of your mac (no idea why - at least it does not work with my external soundcard), but u can record with another free simple recording program and then like soundrecorder ( http://macmusic.org/softs/view.php/lang/EN/id/493/ ) and then import into audacity for editing. Audacity will do multi-channel mixing too!

But with an iMic, griffin's software may be all u need: http://macmusic.org/softs/version.php/lang/EN/id/316/

best of luck.

As far as i am aware there is no way to transfer MD to mac using a digital connection. But i think there was an opensource project somewhere to enable it for sony MD players with USB...