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OpenMG Jukebox start-up screen

NetMD - Does it stand up to the hype?

Sony's NetMD protocol uses the OpenMG Jukebox software (PC only, sorry Mac users) to manage your music files on your harddrive and interface with your portable music device - whether it be a Memory Stick/Network Walkman, Clie Handheld, or a NetMD Walkman. The reason for all of the hype around NetMD is that it finally allows users to download tracks from PC to MD at high-speed(no more single-speed MP3 recording!). The software works fairly well, and the ability to finally download music to your MD's at high speed is fantastic. However there are a few issues/limitations with the whole NetMD/OpenMG design - one is that 132kbps ATRAC3 is the highest available encoding quality, another is that transfers can only go from PC to MD, and not vice-versa. Despite some glaring limitations however, OpenMG Jukebox does a number of things very well. However, if you were hoping for NetMD to allow complete control of all of the MD's advanced editing functions via a PC interface (ie, dividing/splicing tracks, complex track editing, etc), then you may be a bit disappointed. Track dividing/combining/rearranging can be done by the software, but on the hard drive only, and not once the files have been transferred to MD.

Overview

For OpenMG Jukebox to transfer music files on your harddrive to MD, they must first be 'imported' to a playlist in OpenMG Jukebox, and doing so usually requires converting the audio format to Sony's proprietary, encrypted ATRAC3 format (you can leave them in their original format without converting to ATRAC3, but only for playback on your PC... if you want to transfer a track to MD, it will first need to be converted to ATRAC3 somewhere in the process). The user has a choice of 132kbps, 105kbps, and 66kbps (132 and 105 are stereo, 66 is joint-stereo). For reference, the 132kbps and 66kbps modes are identical to those used in the MDLP (MiniDisc Long Play) modes (LP2 and LP4 respectively).

OpenMG Check-In/Check-Out Interface:
Playlists on the left, MZ-N1 on the right

From your OpenMG Jukebox playlist, you are allowed 3 simultaneous downloads (or 'check-outs') of a song at one time. Once all 3 check-outs have been used up, the song will still exist on your harddrive, and you will still be able to play it on your computer's jukebox. However you won't be able to download it to another MD until one of the checked-out copies is checked back in. Checking-in a track will delete the song from the MD and increment the number of your available check-outs in the jukebox by one. Note that there is Sony net md walkman mz-n505 driver for mac

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no way to upload a track recorded on an MD up to the harddrive at high speed (and the 'check-in' process doesn't involve any actual audio upload). This is an unfortunate limitation for those that were hoping to be able to transfer their live recordings and interviews onto their harddrive to use with other applications. Perhaps in the future...? The speed of the PC-to-MD transfer ('check-out') depends on the selected MD recording mode - 2-4x for SP (292kbps ATRAC), 16x for LP2 (132kbps ATRAC3), and 32x for LP4 (66kbps ATRAC3).

The number of available check-outs is indicated
by the number of music notes in front of a song;
The symbol in front of track 3 indicates that no
more check-outs are available, but you can still
continue to play back the song on your harddrive.

In terms of controlling the MD unit itself, OpenMG Jukebox is

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great! CDDB can be used to label tracks prior to ripping them from CD, and those track titles are transferrend to the MD (unfortunately some users seem to be having problems with CDDB - see the bottom of this page under the glitches section). The software also lets you change the track titles on the disc, as well as the disc title itself. You can move tracks around on the disc by dragging and dropping them to the desired target location. The jukebox software will even manage your groups on the disc (create new groups, rearrange them, move tracks from one group to another, etc). Songs can also be deleted by hitting the delete key on the keyboard (or by right-clicking the song on in the window and selecting the delete option). The only thing the jukebox does not let you control is track dividing/combining. OpenMG tracks can be freely edited (divided, combined, etc), on the harddrive, but once you download a track to MD, you're stuck with it as-is. Tracks that are checked-out via the jukebox software are Track-Protected on the MD, and cannot be edited (aside from simple rename/move operations) nor be deleted.

On the external device (MD) side:
A music note in front of a title indicates that
this song was checked-out from OpenMG Jukebox.

The OpenMG Jukebox software will only work with Sony NetMD-compatible models of MD recorders. It will not work with an R900 or R909 (or any older model). If you own one of these older models and want to transfer songs from PC to MD at high-speed, you're out of luck.

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(This might seem fairly obvious, however I've already seen discussion board posts titled 'Where can I download OpenMG for my R900?')

Installing the Software

Surprisingly, the OpenMG Jukebox software CD that comes with the Japanese model of the N1 will install in either English or in Japanese (yes, importers, you heard me right, the software is in English!), depending on the language of your OS (it seems to detect this upon installation, and chooses the language without asking the user). Some of the installation is in English, and a few parts of it are in Japanese (although the portions which are in Japanese are obvious - just keep clicking 'OK' - there really aren't any confusing choices for the user to make).

The OpenMG Jukebox installation CD-ROM -
Photo courtesy of Minidisc Korea (www.mdman.net or www.mdcorea.com)

When you first put the CD into the CD drive, the following screen pops up:

OpenMG Jukebox 2.2 Install Screen -
Be sure to install BOTH parts!

Important -
Note that BOTH of the above items (OpenMG Jukebox 2.2 and NetMD Driver) need to be installed, and each of the two parts requires a reboot. Remember this, since the software won't recognize your N1 unless the 2nd part ('NetMD Driver') is installed, and it is easy to forget that you still have to install the second portion, since the install window doesn't pop-up automatically after your system restarts.

Once you install both components and open the Jukebox software, you should be able to plug the cradle into your PC's USB port, dock the MZ-N1 into the USB cradle, and be ready to go. If there is no disc in the N1, then the computer will not detect the NetMD hardware, so make sure there is a disc inside. The manual states that you may have difficulty if you plug the cradle into a USB hub (as opposed to straight to a USB port on the computer itself), but I have been using a USB hub (which is integrated into my monitor) without any problems so far.

Once you install the NetMD drivers, plug the N1 into
the USB cradle and click the 'DEVICE/MEDIA' tab

The software should recognize the N1 under both the Check In/Out and Device/Media