From: digilyd@hotmail.com   
      
   Trevor wrote:   
      
   > "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.   
      
   .wav or flac comes to mind as the usable household standards. MP3's sound   
   boring in comparison.   
      
   > Trevor   
      
     Kind regards   
      
     Peter Larsen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)