When will Xmd be able to download audio data from my Mac to my minidisc by USB?
Possibly never. Firstly, in their wisdom, Sony have chosen to encrypt all audio data that is passed across the USB to the minidisc unit. No doubt they feel this will help in the fight against music piracy. Personally I am not convinced that this will do anything but turn people against the minidisc format. People who want to pirate music will stick to MP3 players (or iPods), professionals and other people who want the quality of ATRAC reproduction will just become frustrated that this functionality is unavailable/obfuscated Secondly, for LP2 and LP4 (ie MDLP) tracks, the audio data is sent to the minidisc unit in ATRAC format. There are no known open source implementations of an ATRAC CODEC, nor are detailed specifications in the public domain, making it almost impossible to implement such a CODEC from scratch. So, it may never be possible to download LP2 or LP4 data. There is some indication that SP data is sent to the minidisc as raw, PCM audio… So it may be possible to download SP
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