how to record from mini disc player into garage band if possible

Get a male to male 1/8" cord and plug your headphone jack in to the line in on your computer. I do this all the time...

You can put the resulting audio in GB, but GB is pretty limited in what it's capable of doing as far as audio editting. I would suggest checking out Logic Express's free 30 day demo.

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Can you sync the MiniDisk player up to your computer and move the audio over?
If you can actually transfer the sound files off of the MiniDisk instead of just using the headphone out, you'd retain a higher audio quality.
Odds are, provided the audio isn't in some weird proprietary Sony format, (I have no personal experience with MiniDisk,) then you should just be able to drag the audio into iTunes.

Unless the Minidisk player comes with some kind of USB port (mine doesn't) I don't there is a way to drag and drop. And even if you could, Sony WOULD have some Fed up format that only Sony can understand. Kinda like the iPod.

X

You don't mention what kind of "editing" you wish to do, but if it's straight forward cutting up, an Audio Editor would be a better choice than GB:

http://www.thehangtime.com/gb/gbfaq2.html#audioeditors

Really?

How do you put songs on them, then?

I mean, I know they use a little removable disk, but how do you burn it? You don't need a little proprietary burner or something, do you? And if so, how do you take music off?

From that description, GarageBand would be an excellent choice.

Again, mine doesn't have a USB port, so the only way to get sound on the disk is to record it through it's line in (optical or 1/8" trs). My mini disk player is old.

I think the new ones do have a mp3 import function (and a USB port or something similar)...don't know how it works though...I think that it just records them through it's line in though...

A mini disk is like a very small cd-r that is constantly record enabled (unless you switch the tab), like a tape casette. There is an algorythm that allows the minidisk to hold as much info as it does...that's where my confusion comes in about how it imports/exports.

X

what do you have to do with GB for you to
record the sound in GB ?

http://www.thehangtime.com/gb/gbfaq2.html#recordlinein