ATRACTool-Reloaded VS linux-minidisc

If your recordings are exclusively LP2/4, you can use ATRACtool to convert them to LPCM WAV and there's a potential that this ~2015-era tool will get a better result than the Type-S decks

Whoops! Sorry for leaving that out - that's at3tool.exe, packaged for easy-ish use here: https://github.com/XyLe-GBP/ATRACTool-Reloaded

If you're planning on AT3+ mode recordings, either use SonicStage or get a copy of ATRACtool, which can convert AT3 files to WAV files which you can then drop in your DAW or re-cmpress to "literally anything else" per your needs.

In Homebrew mode, you'll get the raw ATRAC off the disc. If you have windows, you can then use ATRACtool to convert LP-mode tracks to WAVs to re-encode. For SP mode tracks, you'll be using VLC or ffmpeg, which is "fine" but if these are quality-critical recordings you may like the results you get better using the line output on the MDS-NT1 or a NetMD deck that has digital optical audio output, depending.

Right now: Yes, for LP2 and LP4 audio. [other formats] can be converted to ATRAC3 132/66 using a tool like ATRACtool. If you use the "remote encoder" option in Web Minidisc, it's using this tool under the hood to do the conversion.

Best: using the remote encoder option on web.minidisc.wiki or using the ATRACtool

If these are LP2 or LP4 recordings, you can achieve Sony-quality conversions on your computer by renaming the AEA files to OMA and using ATRACtool.

Oh yeah, the ATRAC tool I was using is here: https://github.com/XyLe-GBP/ATRACTool-Reloaded

For ATRAC3plus on HiMD, you may be able to avoid the open source codecs by using https://github.com/XyLe-GBP/ATRACTool-Reloaded - but I haven't tried it myself and I don't know how well it works with the files WebMD pro creates. It outright won't support ATRAC1 for SP files, but that at least gets you worked around for HiMD and MDLP.

For HiMD Mode: If you haven't yet, also check out QHiMDTransfer and Miinidisc-FFWD, here: https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases - in my experience, this software is more reliable and more honest about what's possible with HiMD in a modern context. (this app only does HiMD mode though, you'd use web minidisc pro for classic mode discs.)

that's been cracked already, try this app: https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases (for linux, windblows and macOS)

Here's Minidisc-FFWD: https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases

have you looked at the new fork of linux minidisc yet? it does a good job on hi-md: https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases

So yes, this would be ana amazing deal, and very good price if you get it, this one can work also with new software like web.minidisc.wiki http://platinum-md.app/ and qhimdtransfer: https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases and netmd wizard/cd2netmdgui

https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases (download 'minidisc-ffwd-0.9.16.16-etc.etc'*)

If this is a HiMD machine and HiMD-mode disc: I have been using MiniDisc-FFWD: https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases

The NetMD Exploits and Web Minidisc mentioned a few times here are great, the fastest and most convenient way to get audio off a classic Minidisc, and Linux-Minidisc FFWD/QHiMDTransfer (Download at https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases/tag/0.9.16.16 ) is the same for recordings made on HiMD mode discs. To do that, you'll need one of each: A Sony Type-S NetMD Portable (list of these here), and a Sony portable HiMD recorder with USB (RH910 or NH600D would work for this).

For a modern Mac, check out Linux-Minidisc FFWD: https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases/tag/0.9.16.16

You can transfer such ATRAC3-encoded-with-SonicStage files already now using minidisc-ffwd, a friendly fork of linux-minidisc: https://github.com/thp/linux-minidisc/releases/tag/0.9.16.15 - convert the audio to ATRAC3-in-OMA using SonicStage, then mux OMA to WAV using ffmpeg (ffmpeg -i file.oma -c:a copy file.wav) and then you have a WAV file with ATRAC3 data, and netmdcli / QHiMDTransfer can send that to the NetMD device without re-encoding.