How do I transfer music

There is a really crappy system that Sony has. See their website for Sonic Stage.

I recommend doing it line out to line in. The quality will be fine if you watch your levels. And it will be much simpler.

I don't think there's an MD card reader :-)

You can transfer the audio in a couple of ways. If you have a LINE IN jack on your sound card, you could play it back into your pc and use a product like Total Recorder to directly record it to an MP3 file. www.highcriteria.com

If you are doing this on a laptop, a USB to audio device would work. You can Google for results or try something like this http://www.altoedge.com/usbaudio/input.html

Carl

what is the part number or model mame for USB MD cable? I can't find it and want to buy it, please help

It isn't possible to transfer your music from a minidisc to a computer...Sony made it so you can only transfer from a computer to the minidisc...Very bad engineering, but that is the bad news...

You can download SonicStage CP v4.3 from Sony at the address given below.

In case you need it, the second address is a user manual for the player itself.

Personally, I've always found SonicStage to be buggy and annoying to use so for the last few years I've used RealPlayer to do the same job as it has plugins to support file transfers to NET MD units and seems to operate faster and certainly more smoothly.

SonicStage CP 4.3
http://support.sony-europe.com/dna/downloads/downloads.aspx?&f=sstage_dl

MZ-NF810
http://www.minidisc.org/manuals/sony/sony_mznf810_manual.pdf

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Your analogue music will have been recorded digitally by your machine.

Digital transfers are only possible from the host pc/Mac to the player and not the other way around.

But you can transfer the audio signal by connecting the headphone output to the Mac audio input; look into the Minidisc player menu and you can set the headphone socket to "line" which bypasses the volume control circuits for better quality, your computer will then re-convert the analogue input into a digital signal with a small loss of quality.

I don't think this is designated a "Net-MD" - is it? If so, by using the proprietary software (Sonic Stage), recordings can be transferred from the computer via USB to the MD unit - and back again.

You won't be able to "transfer" using a USB cable if the recordings didn't originate via Sonic stage. But you can record them in real time using Cool Edit, Adobe Audition or Audacity (free proggie!). This is the only way of transferring music from any non-USB equipped MD unit, or any MD unit that made the recordings with a mic or using line-in.

You can't. You can only transfer digital files from your pc to your Minidisc player., it's a one way street. there's no hack for it either as it's a basic hardware issue within the player itself.

If you want to download from the player to the pc you'll have to connect the audio output to your pc and record it the old-fashioned way which loses a bit of quality. All Minidisc compliant players were like this until the advent of the Hi MD format which succeeded the Net MD's as an anti-piracy measure.

not install minidisk in my pc what am i should to do?

I've never bothered to use the software to transfer from MZ-NF810 to computer, partly because the software is not very good, but mainly because i think the whole thing about we not being allowed to download again from the computer due to legal issues are just so blah. Anyways, a guaranteed way to work the sound between the NF810 and the computer is to use play the NF810 and pipe it to the miniplug mic in on your computer and record on your computer (if you have a mac this could be SoundEdit.) To record from your computer, you plug in the optical cable on both the computer and the NF810 and play the sound on the computer and record on your NF810.