{"id":843,"date":"2000-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=843"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"data-off-of-roland-br8-vs-zip-drive","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/data-off-of-roland-br8-vs-zip-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting data off of your Roland BR8 or VS zip drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;Is there any way to play or transfer songs recorded on my Boss BR8 (100meg zip) disks to any other machine or computer? I would like to back up more than 2-3 songs to one storage media if possible. Plus I&#8217;d hate to find out after I have 200 songs on disk that when my machine breaks I can no longer play the recordings. Any clues?&#8221; You can copy the data to a Mac or PC. Actually the procedures outlined below will work with any of the Roland VS series recorders.To get it to a PC just put it the disk in any ZIP drive connected to your PC and copy it to the hard drive.To get it to a Mac, you will need Dos Mounter 95 and MultiMounter extensions. Disable any other kind of CD\/Hard Drive\/Zip\/Jaz etc&#8230; Driver except Dos Mounter 95 and MultiMounter. (If you accidentally leave one on, the Mac will not mount (recognize) the Zip from the BR-8). Pop the BR-8 cartridge into the Zip drive on the Mac and drag the image to the hard drive.After you do this, on the PC or the Mac, you can then use a CD burner program to burn a CD of the disk images (not an audio CD, but a backup data CD).If you really want to get audio from the BR-8 that is playable by the computer the only way to do that is to upgrade to a VS-840GX and convert the disk to a .wav disk. Also, for what it&#8217;s worth, we&#8217;ve seen VERY few problems with any of Roland&#8217;s VS recorders (BR8 included). 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