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  1. 1. Yes 2. Probably 3. Yes - all HiMD units actually power from the USB bus whilst plugged in. The RH1 has a fairly decent LiIon battery, you just need to know how to talk to LiIon to keep it up to snuff (many don't, leave it plugged in all the time and then wonder why the life deteriorates). I am also a classical fan and very fussy about what gets uploaded. Until very recently I preferred the upload from the digi-out myself, especially if I needed to clean up the sound by FFT, editing out the clicks etc etc (eg from vinyl or cassette tape). But if the recording is clean already, the RH1 is a better way. Don't make the mistake of using the RH1 as a general purpose player. You can buy one of those for relatively little money on ebay, used or new.
  2. I think the RunAs administrator is the beginning and the end of it. Stephen
  3. Your only option is the MZ-RH1. Nothing else will allow you to keep the titling information. Do tell us what recordings you collect.... Cheers
  4. It looks as if the problem is the *enforcement* of UAC as of SP1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control You may need to reconfigure Vista to enable the Administrator account, though I think this likely only applies to corporate machines on the corporate LAN (could be wrong though). Here's a useful link for the nerdier of you. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/cc300361.aspx
  5. In another thread someone just pointed out they got some action by "run as administrator". Please someone with vista explain how to do this properly. This is just what I was starting to wonder about.
  6. Eureka! That's just what I was wondering about in another thread. I think maybe this wasnt happening by default until Vista SP1.
  7. Huh? What "docket"? The RH1 doesn't have one. I looked at your previous posts and decided that you probably have NH1, just a typo, right? Bob's comment illuminates an interesting issue. If the battery will charge from the USB, then truly the charge stand is broken. Have you considered the possibility that the stand is fine and somehow the battery itself or the charging circuit in the MD is behaving badly? I mean if it's in little pieces on the floor....... did any catastrophic event with either the stand or the MD lead up to this state of affairs? Sometimes perfectly good Li batteries don't work if they never get discharged. If you had it in the stand 100% of the time, it may be that you simply have to discharge the battery (although don't just SHORT it because Li batteries don't like being empty, either) somehow. I'm sure other NH1 owners (and bobt also) can comment on this from experience.
  8. I don't have documentary evidence for this - but my feeling is the A to D on a deck is better. I can only speak for the Sony range as I haven't ventured into Onkyo territory. Decks make it easier to manipulate but you can do most things on a HiMD portable if you are gentle (and determined!). One of the main reasons for liking HiMD at the moment is that I can record a long broadcast (8 hours at 256K on 1GB HiMD). The way I do this is to pipe the signal to my (SP) deck, and use the A to D converter there, with digital out TO the HiMD portable. This gives me maximum record time and best A-to-D with minimum expenditure.
  9. I would look on ebay for a second hand Sony MZ-NH700 or MZ-NH900. Both of these models accept a microphone and can upload the resulting sound to computer. They won't help with your other problem (uploading the legacy recordings, only the RH1 can do that) but these two are reportedly a bit more solid (and cheaper) than the RH1.
  10. You cannot upload from this machine, even with software. You can take option 3, but it is not likely to be that reliable and you lose the nice digital sound you presumably had. Maybe you can find some kind person with an RH1 or a deck to do this for you. I'm in Canada which might seem a bit far away, although the risk of the disk getting messed in the mail is not so bad.
  11. Shoot, I have no idea how to deal with Japan - there's a guy selling MXD-D400's here: http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/search/...00&auccat=0 Can anyone give advice?
  12. Did that about 5 years ago I had quite the voyage today - ended up undoing this change (SS started to crash in all sorts of weird ways) and re importing a bunch of wave files as the encryption keys crashed after the undo. Duh! I note that I don't seem to connect to "Connect" any more at all. Any ideas why? If it's gone, this means that every time you do a system restore, the program keys will die and you lose all encrypted content. This argues in favour of GREAT CARE and regular decryption. I was lucky, only 1 week's worth of saved sound as .oma had to be chucked out. Caveat tweakers!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell me something - is the Atrac Advanced Lossless independent of these wretched keys?
  13. It looks like a programmed behaviour rather than configurable. Even if I set the view to "details" and go to one of the folders and then back, both the browsed-to folder and the original are now viewed as icons again. My Bluetooth Places suffers from the same defect. So if there's a way around it, it wouldnt be found by reconfiguring SS, but in some subtle (probably undocumented) behaviour of the Windows Shell.
  14. If I had to guess I would say that it will turn out nothing is missing, but that some aspect of the way SS encrypts data has fallen afoul of tougher security restrictions on Vista, in turn caused by people trying to hack it. For example maybe the RunAs feature Microsoft is increasingly encouraging people to use. It works like this: you log on as an unprivileged user, and when you want to run some program ***known to Windows*** the system is able to Run that program with increased (Admin) credentials. Naturally this involves security issues. Evidence supporting this guess - SS has always been promised that it will run IF AND ONLY IF YOU ARE AN ADMINISTRATOR. If the last SP for Vista defaulted certain users to less privilege (and the users in question may not be the guy you log on as, but some system account that gets used temporarily during program startup), this would cause the kind of stuff we are seeing. I'm not clear whether your user type, or the presence of add-on modules like Roxio or DLA is enough to cause the problem. The other possibility is that you need to run Sonic Stage from a proper shortcut that increases the credentials of the running program. It occurs to me as I type, that Sony's installation provides such a shortcut, but that those of us who are accustomed to making our own shortcut, or "double-clicking" omgjbox.exe might be out of luck. But to solve this, I need someone with a version that works to do a little helping for the diagnosis, so I can detect the differences between working and non-working as the program loads.
  15. The only new unit available is the RH1. However someone is remaindering the DN430 (NetMD, from about 2005, you won't even find it on the equipment browser here) and you can probably pick one up in an ebay auction for $20. If you want/need HiMD, most people including me swear by the 700/800/900 series (be sure the name has an H in it, or you get the pre-HiMD units only).
  16. Just out of curiosity, what's your problem with the RH1? I like most of the HiMD units that came before it, but I use the RH1 just for uploading and live recording, since all the reports are that it has a limited lifespan - particularly the jog lever which seems to wear out. THe 600D has a problem, it cannot record its only music from external sources. But the 600 is a perfectly good unit and I or others here can point you in the direction of one. A second hand HiMD unit will set you back $100+ these days, a good HiMD (the NH1 is everyone's favourite) $200 or more. Where are you located? Stephen
  17. Did you find any way to set the "View" of the folders to the same as the view of the master folder? I can change the latter to Details, but cannot see a way to do this with a folder that I have descended into. Cheers
  18. Hi folks, I am so excited, I cannot type fast enough - forgive my incoherencies in what follows. Today I discovered something really surprising. The old hands will probably tell us that this is known behaviour, and I am sure it is But I think possibly it gives an insight into exactly HOW the software maintains stuff on a minidisc. This is actually HiMD behaviour, but it is a (?clever?) design trick that might work this way on the previous implementations too. By way of preface, 1kyle asked about how to get a blank music file on a MD, and I replied something about lets muck around and snoop the USB transactions. This goes a bit further, because it shows that the ORIGIN of a track has a lot to do with how that track is treated by the software that tries to protect things from bad stuff like people editing copyrighted tracks. Here's the scenario. Each Sunday I get a full disk off the Radio with about 6 hours of stuff in it. Usually in 2 parts, each part gets its own group because that's the way the NH700 is set - every time I press REC, I get a new group. My input is optical, and although Sony says you cannot edit optically recorded tracks (maybe that's not so, but the restrictions are so badly worded that I am not clear what you can and cannot do), I am able to put track marks in the sound - and title them - before uploading to the computer for further enjoyment and archiving to CD when I find something I really like. Sometimes there's a break in the second part, so I have 3 groups. Today there wasn't - so I used SS to move the last 60+ minutes into a new group before editing it. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that although I had already divided most of the tracks before the last hour, when I tried to edit the last hour, I got the (by now quite familiar) "cannot edit" message on the display of the NH700. I thought about this for a bit, and went back and checked the other tracks (all titled, named, and in some cases already uploaded to PC) and I could still put a track mark in them. What could be wrong? - I thought. So I moved the last track BACK INTO THE PREVIOUS GROUP where it had started life. Bingo! I can now edit it to my heart's content. So the fact that this track was in a group that SS had titled, or in a group that was not the original group it started life in, made the ability to edit it disappear. (I am not clear exactly what so someone else can try to narrow this down further). Surely this bizarre behaviour must tell us a lot about the mechanism for protecting the tracks on a MD???? I welcome suggestions both as to the mechanism, and to other experiments you or I might do to see if we can use this to help understand the whole protection setup better. Marc, I bet you know about this.... wherever you are. Stephen
  19. Sounds like it's trying to record but there is no input connected. Sorta depends on what you're doing. Start with a disc in a known state. Put the disc in and try to play it. If it is empty it will say "Blank Disc". If not, some numbers will show on the display. Did you try to record? If not, then maybe the record button (on most is the same thing as the T-mark button) stuck, either physically or maybe electronically? If it's the latter, maybe removing the battery and all source of power for 5 minutes might help. I defer to those who own an NH1 (which I don't). Have you got a manual? Should find one here online if not. Cheers
  20. There's a check box in the properties of tracks. I often end up clearing it. If you select all the tracks being uploaded, and it doesnt do what you want, try changing it (set or clear as the case may be). It says something like "track is part of compilation". HTH
  21. 1. I need someone with a working SS on Vista (Clearly there were lots), to send me the log from depends. exe showing the startup of the SS program. 2. I can see the errors that are currently being experienced by everyone and for now I am assuming they are the same. Almost certainly because some component of Windows had a security thingy made "more secure" by Microsoft and breaking SS. To get #1 *you* are welcome to go back to pre-Service Pack %%%% (last time I checked XP service packs they were always uninstallable). This would also confirm the suspicion that something in the SP is responsible. Lets ASSUME that worked and SS now runs again. Having done that, now one is going to have to walk through all the updates in the SP one by painful one, checking if SS died at the last step until we can point the finger. I cannot do it, since I don't have a machine I want to install Vista on. Stephen %%%% it appears some people may be immune. Two possible reasons (this is mostly speculation since I cannot see or touch it): 1. they didn't update 2. They didnt install some add-on component which SS uses/allows for (eg Nero drivers, or Roxio) that others did, and the upgrade interferes with that.
  22. Well sure, there are going to be current limitations on the real USB bus too. The chargers must deliver more current (I=V/R?). I don't know the specifics. Of course you know much better than I do that if you have charger that delivers X volts nominally in one situation that with less or more load on it that it may deliver X+1 or (more usually) X-1 volts or so. You might be able to force a USB bus to 6V but something will probably blow. I am still undecided whether to hack my working GPS charger. I did something else and tried to run the NH700 off the RH1's charger, no joy at all. Not charge, you understand, just power. Please see if you can explain *that* to my poor addled brain. Cheers Stephen
  23. Import CD will do exactly that, import a CD. You will still end up with lots of "stuff" on your HD. The only real difference was SB would delete it for you after the transfer. SS is quite well behaved, you can delete all the tracks, and indeed set to to warn you when deleting, just to make sure it doesn't delete anything by accident. I would very much like to get a depends log on a working Vista version, though. Only evident way to figure out what might be wrong.
  24. So you guys have Vista and 4.3? I am assuming you have automatic updates on - please shriek if not! Any chance either of you would be able to get me a depends.exe log file so I can try solving what might be wrong with multiple people who don't seem to have SS working at all? This SB thing makes me wonder if those folks somehow opened the same trapdoor that SB is using (whatever it is, at this stage I have no clue) - and fell into it. If you need a reference I can give one here.... http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?s=&am...st&p=136449 You might be doing a lot of people a favour. Cheers (PS don't try to post the log, send me a PM and we can exchange emails).
  25. IF TFSWAPI isn't required, what about changes to DLA then? Many people seemed to have issues with CD burning, and Nero changed some things for Vista (eg DriveImage doesn't work). Could it be our friend Nero is responsible, even if only indirectly?
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