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OK, that's great (assuming you didn't actually get any errors during the install). ***NOW*** try to figure out (with any NetMD unit NOT connected) what is wrong with the service that Simple Burner should have installed. It's called "MD Simple Burner Service" and on my XP machine it has "Manual" startup, and has "local system account" and "allow to interact with desktop" set, in its properties. If you poke around there's a "Help me configure service startup options" with lots of description of how to make this stuff work. Maybe under W7 it somehow didn't manage to finish installing that service. You should look at the parameters of other services (for example on a Win64 machine Apache and MySQL will install services) and see if what SB Install did was different. If it looks just the same as an XP install (ie it's there and uses the local system account), you might try telling it to log on under your user name and password. I'm assuming lots here about your knowledge. We are on the "bleeding edge" here and will be very grateful if you can make it work, as we can share this around. The fact you can transfer to NetMD using SonicStage means you got most things right already. Do NOT plug in the recorder or touch any drivers for Net MD. Your goal is to get SB working with HiMD first. To do this you will eventually need a HiMD formatted disk and/or your HiMD unit with its "disc mode" set to "Hi-MD" (ie not "MD"). If you don't have a Hi-MD you may have to wait until someone else with W7-32 reads this and tries it. Try starting the MD Simple Burner Service (there's a start button in the service configuration) and seeing what error you get. This may be a very good clue to what is wrong. One more thing, you should be trying to install this version of SB Good luck! PS there are more things we can try, if you fail.

Sure but you don't need (or want) to do ALL the adjustments. In particular, you should NOT do the 911 Reset NVRam under any circumstances. To get the voltage adjustment right you may be able to get away with one regulated power supply and a digital voltmeter. This assumes you know what you are doing and don't mind losing the whole unit if you mess up.

You say everything worked perfectly (and works perfectly for SS under Win7-32). Does this include NetMD (titling the disk should be enough of a test)????? It might just be that SB forces the NetMD drivers to be loaded, and perhaps you don't have the right ones because something "knows" it mustn't be installed under W7....... THAT should be soluble.

Those are not even close to the known driver numbers for the NetMD, AFAIK. You can look in the INF I posted and cross-check, if you wish.

Just consider all the ways we've now given you to trash your beautiful unit. Good luck!

WOW, that's a rare animal. Sony specifically say they don't support it. Sorry. It may well be that THIS driver runs just fine. If it does, I will edit the description to say including Windows XP-64. Did you try installing the Sonic Stage from this forum? (also prominently featured in downloads). You might do so immediately. If not you are out of luck with W64-XP, as Sony has always claimed.

All good advice. Thanks for trying out the write protect. Unfortunately I think the write protect is all in software, so that tab doesn't really protect anything like it does on a floppy disk.

There is no "supported" version of XP-64, maybe you mean Windows 7. As long as you didn't hook anything else to it you should be good to go. Assuming you have the standard W7-64, the drivers here for the RH1 in the download section should be fine. Install them BEFORE you install SonicStage.

I don't understand why you would rip beautiful SP down to 64kbps. And not even 64kbpos Atrac3+, at that. Transcodings like this usually result in horrible quality. Try it out and see, is all I can suggest.

It may need a deep discharge or three - or possibly adjustment (of the RH1 - big pain because on many units it is hard to get into service mode). The batteries, both Li and NiMH seem to depend on fractional volt differences which may decay as a recorder unit is past the first blush of youth. Sure, batteries die, you can only tell by buying a replacement. The apparent "fakes" (ie impossibly cheap price and some fools telling you they must be ripoffs because THEY can't sell you one for more money) are mostly fine. Sony inflates all their spare parts by about x10 so it's not surprising you can get a battery on open market for about 5x cheaper!? Stephen

tch.... you definitely don't want 64kbps MP3 from Atrac3+, the codec is AT LEAST twice as good. If you run the provided Sony MP3 conversion tool I bet you get (their default of) 128k MP3. Other than that, you can make Windows Media Player work with ATRAC files to manage and play them. Not very hard. Whether WMP can then transfer to Apple, I have no clue. Hopefully it figures out some sort of autoconvert, that's what happens with the later Sony Walkmen, I believe.

If you're going to FLAC (I have no reason to because Atrac Advanced Lossless has all the right characteristics for me, including being able to recreate WAV) then you need to upload from RH1 with the transfer destination (it's under the "Advanced" button in the Import Settings tab) set to "PCM" meaning 1411 kbps, the default being 256kbps A3+ as described by NickyJay. As I mentioned you will simply throw this A3+ file away once you have got your WAV files, it is useless effectively. As to the timestamp metadata, I think it gets lost (and for blank titles replaced by upload time, which is not very useful in your circumstance). Better to title them all BEFORE upload - this is very easy from SonicStage (way better than the IR remote method) and about as easy as a keyboard, although I think your 920 deck does not accept a keyboard, sadly. There's a whole myth/method-ology about fast uploads. If you have used ANY other HiMD or NetMD recorder in NetMD mode on the same PC, then the RH1 gets messed up unless you do some crazy stuff (which we have carefully documented). But it is worth doing because a. it will save your recorder wear b. it will be approx 10x faster.

Sorry to sound hostile, but when you pretend to be in Texas and your IP is in India, I think you are a spammer. Thanks and goodbye, this sounds like a "clever" preparation for the inevitable "Oh I found the great solution" advertising ploy - and links to sites that we (and our computers) do NOT want to be connected to. This will be your only warning.

Absolutely not, at least for HiMD disks. I am not sure, for legacy (SP, LP2, LP4) disks, you might try it.... You can upload to PCM or 256K (HiSP). As NickyJay says, the latter is silly because you get transcoding. The former is useless because nothing understands it, and the file is encrypted (which can and shoud be got around). What you want to do is to export that PCM file to WAV (rightclick in SonicStage, or alternatively set up that every import makes a WAV file... problem there is that the specified directory fills up quickly with very large files. When you have got all the stuff you care about safely to WAV, DELETE EVERYTHING YOU JUST UPLOADED FROM SONICSTAGE, including "Delete this music from the computer". Now you can re-import it to SS. Usually what I do is to burn a CD immediately with the WAV files using Nero (I don't trust the SS CD burner unless I have to, and the dialog box with the CD-Text volume information is very hard to find, whereas in Nero it's obvious), and then do Sony's own lossless compression to AAL (make sure the destination is 256K). This AAL format can be played from SonicStage (or Windows media or VLC) as well as being able to regenerate WAV pretty much flawlessly, and also to down-code to LP2 if you need it. All of the above applies to SP recordings. For LP2 and LP4 recordings, they are automatically uploaded "as is". They can be exported to WAV but there's no particular need. They can be converted to MP3, with Sony's own MP3 converter (you will have to play with it to figure out how it arranges the files since it's apparently set up to transform ALL your files at once, a nice feature I suppose). Just make sure you don't try to convert LP recordings when sending back to MD, this is when the transcoding goes wrong and earns MDLP a bad name. The upload is a bit perfect copy, unlike SP mode, however. Yes, anything on that computer that plays media files. It needs a bit of tweaking in the registry, but I can help with that, either by providing explicit instructions, or by referring you to posts (not) long dead. Start off by double-clicking an OMA file with Windows Media Player, just to convince yourself. As I say a bit of tweaking to make it 100% integrated, but relatively easily done. No, not at all. You need to run Sony's File Conversion Tool (from the main menu of SS) on a regular basis to remove the file protection from uploaded files. Pain, but there it is. When and if the Linux Minidisc project gets it so you can upload files from SP disks integrated with the rest of the project, that problem won't exist any more. Currently it's a separate program to do that task.

First off - did you enable the USB driver so Virtual XP could see it? There's a little USB dropdown at the top of the XP window..... Second off - does Sonic Stage work ok on your system (Native W7, no reason why it should not)? I don't recommend SS in a virtual PC, it is reported to be rather slow. If you forget all about the XP virtual machine, try installing SB over the top of the working SonicStage. 1. Does that break SonicStage? 2. If not, does SB now work? Stephen PS "work for the first three tracks" sounds a LOT like it gets started but never actually writes anything. You may need to creep up on it a bit, and do some testing with reading disks first. When you can READ a disk, try changing the volume name first in SS, then in SB (assuming that a. you succeeded and b. SB is functional). If you can WRITE the disk at that point, I strongly suspect power problems "later on" and first thought is to run on wall powersupply. But I don't even know if all this was running before you moved to W7, so you could have a power or USB problem with the unit itself.

I just got one of these about 2 weeks ago, seems that setting items is not possible unless you know the combination. I found that to get out of some menus you had to set hold ON before pressing "back". But no way to change any items. Presumably the way to get a setting to stick is a standard trick we do not know yet.

Nearly all HiMD units are the same. Turn on HOLD switch. Press and hold some button (typically "group" or "menu", for RH10 is "menu") FF FF RW RW FF RW FF RW || || (10 key pushes in all). Don't forget to remove the battery and/or powersupply to get out of service mode. One more tip - with the lid closed you may well end up in key check mode unexpectedly. Simple solution... to get out of key check mode, open the lid.

you didn't like being on the streets, huh?

XP compatibility mode is not the XP virtual machine. There's no "just" here. I think you would have had exactly the same problem on real XP (I recall I did). The trick is to install in this order, IIRC (it may be that I have 2 and 3 reversed): 1. NetMD drivers (just for safety, in fact you don't actually need them for HiMD mode of course, it's just that an empty HiMD unit may be configured to look like NetMD and everything will get very confused indeed). 2. Simple Burner 3. Sonic Stage 4.3 Ultimate2 (from this forum's download section). If you need to set the compatibility flags to XP for the SB, that's another issue, but it should not prevent you from running it. You just have to find the right program to apply them to. 1 possible problem is that SB installs itself as a Windows service. Maybe you have to find it (mine is at "C:\Program Files\Sony\MD Simple Burner\NetMDSB.exe" ) and tweak the parameters associated with starting that service.

I stand corrected. I had no idea this was possible. There's no need however, you should be fine with W7-32 and SB. Skip the XP mode and start again. You should uninstall first, the Sony software. Especially OpenMG, I think.

Sorry, that doesn't make sense. Lets get some facts straight first. 1. You cannot be running W7/32 because there is no way to host XP on it, I think. 2. You don't say if you are trying to add files to a NetMD or a HiMD 3. Do you mean 1-3 files, or 1-3 disks? 4. Does by chance the problem happen when you change disks? (the MODE problem). Welcome to the forums!

Well.... As you say, the JA333ES would make a good DAC (or your JB940 I suspect). I know from bitter experience that the analog output on the D400 is not great. Fine for regular CD's and SP minidiscs, but as soon as fighting the battle of a recording whose noise got compressed, then the optical seems to make a difference. Sony knew this, one suspects, since they didn't allow pressing "record" with no MD to act as A->D/D->A as it does on many more lowly units like the 520 for example. This in turn is probably due to the way the signal paths have to take account of the CD player, everything ends up getting switched and I suspect the analog side is consequently noisier. (I sound like I know what I am talking about, but I really don't have more than a passing acquaintance with the innards). I was thinking your ES model doesn't have LP - but it does.

I don't use more than the two sound channels currently (this may change), and I still think this amp is not overkill. What's nice is it also has lots of video connectors as well as HDMI. The current crop have all removed most things except HDMI, which is a real pain, due to increasing DRM efforts. Also, HDMI is usually a poor second qualitywise.

Why not buy a new (used) amp with optical in? For example this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Onkyo-TX-SR605-Receiver-/180634429177 This is exactly the model I bought but there are countless others, you can look through ebay and see what features you desire overall. Probably set you back a lot less than a fancy custom DAC, and it works beautifully with my 400 Stephen

Most of us who got wise to this trick run the FCT once a week, or after each recording, which ever is later. Probably better you just let it run, immediately. The time is a gross overestimate based on PC's of 5-10 years ago, methinks. There's (supposedly) a non-Windows, non-Sony utility to do the same thing in the works. The only difference is that it won't require the files to be valid and playable to begin with. I think Sony were afraid, given their involvement in the music industry. Apple had no such ties, in fact they spent 25 years in a dispute with the Beatles from precisely the other side of the copyright fence. Beware of backups. Registry keys have some time element in them, restoring last year's backup may well (no, WILL) invalidate all songs you sent to the PC since the time of the backup, no matter where you copy them to first.