From: trevor@home.net   
      
   "Peter Larsen"  wrote in message   
   news:4e85c759$0$56795$edfadb0f@dtext02.news.tele.dk...   
   > Dieter Britz wrote:   
   >> I have a number of old minidisks and want to convert the music on   
   >> them into mp3. MDs are digital, so it ought to be possible to retain   
   >> the digital form and "just" convert that, rather than go through the   
   >> analogue output when I play an MD, which causes some loss of quality.   
   >   
   > Good idea.   
   >   
   >> Can this be done, and how?   
   >   
   > player with sp-dif output, soundcard or computer with sp-dif input.   
      
      
   Which of course still means converting from ATRAC to PCM/Wav to MP3. You may   
   lose a *little* less than going via an analog connection, but "some loss of   
   quality" is unavoidable if you want .MP3's from MD.   
      
   Trevor.   
      
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