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gavinbenda
Unsupported netMD device (MDS-NT1)?
Hello,
My MDS-NT1 is unable to be accessed by the platinum-md application (or web minidisc for that matter). It is visible in the select device menu, and I can start a connection, but it ends up with just a grey spinning circle forever.
It was mentioned in the discord that the vendor and product ID may help, they are as follow: VendorID: 054c ProductID: 0081
If I can help out in any other way please let me know.
I think this the same issue with the other high-end decks, I suspect there's either something really simple or something a bit more complicated with the USB handshake to get them working in linux-minidisc. That pID seems to be listed here: https://github.com/gavinbenda/linux-minidisc/blob/master/libnetmd/netmd_dev.c#L41
Unfortunately I don't have any of those devices to test with.
Ahhh I see. This is a dedicated writer for PC, not a high-end deck. It works as a simple player (with just a volume dial and play/stop) unless it is plugged into USB, then it only functions as a netMD device. Seems to function with Sonicstage without issue. Probably is the same issue.
Someone in the discord mentioned possibly a different encryption key. I have never messed with USB hardware before so it is all a little over my head.
If there is anything you'd like me to test I am more than willing to give it a shot. I understand trying to test something over the chat is pretty much impossible though.
If you could test with the 'bare bones' linux-minidisc commandline and see if it reports anything, that would be very helpful.
It has been awhile since I have messed with Linux (my last Linux install was mandrake...I don't think it even exists anymore), so I spent the last few days setting up an install on an old PC and figuring out how this whole github thing works. The dependencies listed on the github were out of date(qt5-make not qt4-make anymore), so I am not sure it still installs properly.
When I try to run ./netmdcli I get the following:
Error opening netmd Error while opening the USB device
Nothing else is output into the command line. Can't seem to find any debug files created either.
You need to run the command prefixed with sudo or add a udev rule so that your user has permission on the USB device.
I've got a Sharp NetMD recorder and mine reports Unknown Error so it could be something similar. I already reported my problem to the linux-minidisc project.
I have done some research on the reason why my JE780 does not work with linux-minidisc, I suspect the NT1 is the same. Research is described here: http://forums.sonyinsider.com/topic/31120-mds-je780-with-linux-minidiscplatinum-mdwebmd/
If you are able to, please download and run my test tool: https://github.com/deenine/netmd_test/blob/main/README.md
