Last edited February 24th, 2004
Main homepage

This page is my index page for some info about the NetMD USB protocol used by Sony portable MiniDisc players, with the goal of improving interoperability with other programs / operating systems (like Linux).

Local pages

Analysed logs from a NetMD download session.
Analysed logs from a NetMD checkin session.
Some info service menu 'hacks' for the Sony MZ-N510 and possibly other Minidisc players.

Links

Info from Sony

Sony Patent EP1286495 that seems to describe the basic principles of audio encryption download used by NetMD.

NetMD software projects

XMD (documentation, source)
libnetmd (documentation, source), formerly known as opennmd project.
gnetmd (source) based on libnetmd

NetMD protocol/encoding research pages

FireFoot's NetMD research page
Yaneurabeya's NetMD research page

NetMD protocol/encoding documentation

FreeMD manual (documentation)
Some info about the NetMD protocol at minidisc.org
OpenNMD mailing list archive at Gmane

NetMD player/recorder Hacks

Sam's service menu hacks