DakarJim / platinum-md

Minidisc NetMD Conversion and Upload

Platinum-MD

A Gui for NetMD

Dependancies

OSX

You will need to install homebrew: https://docs.brew.sh/Installation

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then install the following:

brew install --force pkg-config qt5 mad libid3tag libtag glib libusb libusb-compat libgcrypt ffmpeg && brew link --force qt5

Windows

You will need to use Zadig to install the WinUSB Driver. Connect your NetMD device, open the app and click the "Install Driver" button. Please note, this will disable Sonic Stage from having access to the device, you'll need to run Zadig and 'reinstall' the old driver to use it again.

https://zadig.akeo.ie/

Linux

Note: This has only been tested on Ubuntu.

Run apt-get install libgcrypt20-dev libglib2.0-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev qt4-qmake libid3tag0-dev libmad0-dev

You will also likely need to allow your user permissions to the USB/NetMD Device. This is a 'catch-all' but you may wish to add a specific deviceId/vendorId if you want to lock permissions down. sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/50-device.rules and add SUBSYSTEM=="usb", GROUP="YOURUSERGROUPHERE"

Installation

OSX

Download the latest release, and open the dmg.

Drag the file to the applications folder.

Upon opening the platinum-md app from the applications folder, it will show a warning.

Open OSX Settings and click Security & Privacy - click the Open Anyway button shown near the bottom of the panel.

Windows

Download the latest release, and open the platinum-md .exe Setup file.

Run the installer, don't forget to run Zadig above.

Linux

Download the latest release, and open the platinum-md AppImage Setup file.

Overview

This project aims to make uploading audio files to NetMD players seamless and automatic.

Features

Supports upload MP3/WAV/FLAC files direct to a compatible NetMD recorder.

Full quality SP recording.

LP2/LP4 with an experimental encoder

Release Notes

This is a very alpha release, expect bugs.

FAQ / Troubleshooting

• If the interface shows "Negotiating with device" but won't connect, click the retry button.
• To access debug information, click settings and click the debug window button.
• Some discs origionally made with SonicStage may not allow for tracks to be deleted by Platinum-MD.
• Windows anti-virus software may sometimes incorrectly mark the app as a positive.

Known bugs / future Plans

• Some pre-recorded discs made with SonicStage may show as blank
• Bulk delete is not supported yet, but will be soon
• Moving tracks is also not supported, but also will be very soon
• Sometimes a track or two may be missed, this is likely a race-condtion, will be fixed in the next release
• Automatic CLI tools for installing dependancies is highly desirable
• Linux release is imminent, starting with Ubuntu
• Windows release is a way off, sorry
• The USB interface sometimes just fails, this is hard to fix as it seems to be the device itself (just unplug/plug-in again)
• LP4 is unsupported (relies on support from a 3rd party library)
• LP2 is experimental, in my experience some tracks may have a slight hiss... this is an upstream issue.

Thanks

The Linux-Minidisc project (this is the most up-to-date Fork I've found, but there are many contributers):

https://github.com/vuori/linux-minidisc/

The ATRAC Encoder by @dcherednik

https://github.com/dcherednik/atracdenc

Donate

I do this as a personal project, and a few people have expressed interested in donating to keep the project going, this will simply go back into buying test hardware and/or possibly coffee.