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Under Transfer Settings - NetMD - Advanced, there is a check box "Check if this track was transferred from this computer before deleting". Not sure what it does.... mine is unchecked.

Easy, that one I can guess an answer to. When you delete tracks it is updating the authorization count which may be finite, on the hard disk. This requires significant communication between slave and master Check, Avrin?

Good, thanks for the log, can read it. Not making a whole lot of sense to me right now. Couple of silly questions: a. It sounds like you are in England. Have you tried changing locale to United States? b. can you undo the last Windows Media Player update? (if it is part of the Service pack this might take some fancy footwork) I sincerely hope you saved extra copies of restore points! Presumably the SP install somehow does this so it can be uninstalled. It looks like the failure is in SALWRAP (Secure Application Layer), and that something with that technology just changed in the update. I wouldn't worry about the TFS and DLA errors, they smell like optional components missing, such as stuff needed to burn CD's. It could even be something silly to do with certificates expiring, but that wouldn't explain why it apparently happened after the update. *that* would be relevant if someone who turned off updating is also getting the same problem. Sigh, I really don't want to install Vista again. Stephen

Worst case you should be able to set up a fake pointer at dyndns.org. Richy, take a look at your emails from that board?

IMHO the megabass and Type-S are not connected. I think for earbud listening, it is important not to overdo the treble (that's what almost ruined my ears) but the bass can be cranked up a bit. This discussion is one reason I want to see what happens when I get a type-S *deck*, to see how the result sounds in a decent stereo system.

Neat! Looks like the only problem might be the remote is non-Sony, and the commonly available ones with the jack plus four fingers will not work. Is the remote functional? Also looks like the external battery case is different from Sony's. Cheers

The manual *does* claim (as has been pointed out to me here) that all the HiMD units include the Type-S feature.

If you or anyone else can find an email sent from that board, you can probably access it by IP number. You'll have to look in the headers, but it should be there clearly enough.

Interestingly, I'm very impressed with the NH700's playback of all formats. Certainly it doesn't bother my ears like the RH1 does. But you are right, the DN430 (at the prices someone is remaindering them) are a bargain to be snapped up, as is any portable with genuine Type-S (and no HD amp). What I'm looking for is a Type-S deck - there are 3 that I know of (at least that have digi out), JE780, JE980 and MXD-D400. I had a line on one of the latter last week but it never came to anything. Currently I record long programs off the radio in Hi-SP and they seem to sound fine on the '700.

Bernhard, I only said that as an example. My quote makes it quite clear the answer,,, which I looked up after making my (creative?) suggestion. 604 minutes, you were right all along. Suggest you look at as many different manuals as you can find, and I am betting the description (where it is given) is the same in every case. I found that other error codes were quite consistent across many different MD's. If a later model didn't give it, the earlier one seemed to be right.

Maybe it's really 5C 02 seconds which is 92*256 +2 totalling 23554 which could be 392 minutes ie 6 hrs 32 mins? You have to have a twisted mind to solve things like this. As you say the only way is to (safely) reproduce an error and test it. Unless the service manual tells you. However, looking in the service manual for the MZ-R91 (I think all the later ones were built on earlier technology so much of this sort of thing doesnt change) page 16 it is Hi byte lo byte and minutes......

Don't think so, there are still links to AtracLife from Sony Insider.

The "imported" files are in folders. The "optimized" ones are all in a single folder. In both cases, when I run the conversion tool, the .oma files disappear, and the .OMA files appear in their place (actually I fancy there is a rename). I have no idea why SS would keep both the .oma and .OMA - I suspect this may be because someone either misconfigured SS or writeprotected the .oma files. Windows has a lot of trouble with case sensitive extensions and will see them as the same file anyway, so this may answer your question. When SS ends up making a duplicate (because for example you interrupted a group transfer or conversion) you will see (1) added to the file name main part (before the extension). The database makes sense of them for you. If you reassign the Album of tracks, they will move around because their name changed to include the Album as part of the path name. When SS cannot make sense (because a component of the name is missing, eg untitled tracks uploaded) it sometimes puts in some identifier, like the time and date of the upload. I may sound like an apologist for SS - but these kinds of things are all fairly obvious to me as I have written applications which catalogue files before, and these are the sorts of things you end up doing to make sure there are no name collisions. Finally, there should be no need to ever keep any "optimized" files, since they are always secondary in nature and will be regenerated when you transfer again. Not sure what happens when you delete the file and SS doesn't know, though. Safest is to go through and delete them from the File Info tab of the properties dialog. Be careful, there's no confirmation prompt and if you delete an original, once it's gone, it's gone. I have sometimes had to mess with this when SS got confused because there were too many copies of a file and in my attempt to clean up I deleted the one it had the reference to, rather than the one it had forgotten about. Then you get strange messages about files not registered to SonicStage. Note, of course, that the file conversion tool will probably not remove DRM from any file that it didn't generate, eg downloads. The only reasonable way to deal with those is to play them back, capturing the sound with external MD or CoolEdit/Audition/WaveRecorder/TotalRecorder, make a wave file and save that. I'm pretty sure you can do that, so it makes kindof a mockery of DRM anyway. Maybe that's why we are all supposed to move to Vista, to prevent this from being possible

Exactly which version do you consider "the latest"? And in what sense is it "gone"? Currently I run the SS file conversion about once per month to make all the new .oma files into .OMA files, with version 4.3 Or maybe I missed some other way that you can avoid these hassles. We all know what it's like when a HD goes down, and very annoying when you haven't backed it up - even more annoying when the backup is braindead.

You'd have to pay a license fee to Invision most likely, to have a decent board. There are freebies but I would never put a major BBS there. $150 initially, and then optional $25 per (not sure if 6months or 1 year) for ongoing support. Registration is only about $35 per year, less if you get a 5 or even 10 year lease from Network Solutions. The server itself - about $100 per month. No way you want it on an existing connection, this belongs on a server farm somewhere. PS right now I am sure it's only the name that's died, the server is probably out there. So it's the issue of someone's DNS server holding that name so it will be promulgated over the internet, that hasn't been paid for. Maybe someone here can figure out the last time they got an email from Atraclife, and we can access it via number instead of name.

In a digital world, as always, it's not about quality but compatibility. Sure the SQ of MD is fantastic but if you can't play it.......?

Have you noticed how this board went down twice (I think it moved). I tracked this one to Eric Woudenberg someplace near NY. However it seems atraclife.org's domain registration has expired. These things cost money, and I expect it's not paid for. One of the troubles with a "free" internet and the falling financial system is that lots of people will simply stop paying for their domains. I almost did this myself on one domain I look after.

My DVD/HD recorder (been on the market for over a year) has an SD slot in it with facilities to play presumably both music and video.

Great. So the GPS would still work even with the 27K resistor there? Forgive me for being so stupid..... The one thing I don't want to do is mess up a working piece of equipment.

Aha! Some dumb questions: 1. Will that 27K affect other things that might plug into the PS? 2. Why does this stop the Sony from working at all when plugged in? I couldn't even get either unit to play anything. 3. Does this mean that the GPS already has a 27K inside it somehow, or is this just a Sony thing? Assuming the answer to #1 is YES, can you tell me what parts I am looking for to make an extension cable (or perhaps if some kind manufacturer already made one) with the resistor embedded in it. Thanks

Do you get longer charge times (sorry I mean discharge times) as a result? I have a GPS in my car which has a cigaretter-lighter powersupply that delivers USB charging for the GPS - and this same PS point blank refuses to charge my NH700, or the RH1. In fact neither machine will even come on (weird!) plugged into that powersupply. What gives? I can't tell you the rating as I hid it behind the console and I would have to unscrew everything again to look. The Sony cigaretter lighter charger (a different one) I have for using MD in my car will charge the earlier, non-USB models (eg NF810) and it is rated at 3.0V 1000mA. Another point to note: when I have my "universal" powersupply (bought from the drugstore) set to 4.5V, it won't charge the 3V machines same as above. So it's not necessarily true that too much voltage will lead to better charging. It often just cuts off and won't work at all. Maybe you can enlighten me as to what is happening in all of these different cases.

Agree. But if you need 6V to fully charge a 3V battery (as it seems) then maybe you cannot do it via USB. And the RH1 can only charge via USB. Whereas the NH3D goes direct to the charging circuit. Makes sense to me, but what do I know?

But if it takes 6V to get fully charged, it's probably not safe to put 6V on the USB bus, right?

I don't have a second machine with LIP-4WM, but what you say makes perfect sense. My guess is that they were forced to compromise to allow charging to take place via USB as well as "from the wall" and in some sense there had to be some limiter placed to make that safe. The NH3D appears to take power but not **charge** via USB, correct? Help me out someone who has USB knowledge.......

Either that or running SI Backup, it just occurred to me.