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Someone's sold you a bill of goods. There is NO DRM on the data (in the sense we normally mean it, namely actual encryption), just an extra field on the TOC. The reason for this is simple, your disk is still playable on devices made before they invented NetMD (and TrProtect). If you can find a deck (or portable) where, instead of leaving it alone, the TrProtect bit in each entry is reset, then your idea should work. However, the scheme would founder if there were any rewritings of the FAT map of the drive - ie. both versions should be made with a virgin disk. I'm guessing the MDS-E10 might just do this, as it is a pro deck which in theory allows copying anything. As always, YMMV. Stephen

Were you on line? If you had some super paranoid settings on firewall you might have been blocked as i don't know what ports if any are used. Finally as I've said a few times, historically the Sony server that does the authentication is sometimes down.

Unfortunately when you make a CD-R the computer ends up with much of the data scattered across the hard disk. Unless you happen to have one of the rare standalone CD recorders which are IMHO a real pain to use.

That's easy. Don't run on a Mac. Sorry.

Corona - Turn off Windows Update and try again. I'm thinking something is happening at 3am (or whenever Update runs automatically). But it may be simpler than that. You don't give us enough details: a. What version of Windows 7 (pro or home)? b. Are you logged in as Administrator, with UAC and/or DEP turned off? c. What exactly were you doing when it crashed? d. What error message did you get? Anyway, strong recommendation NOT to use the default location for user data, as the path may become too long if the title of albums is long eg C:\Users\My very long user name\my documents\<blah..... blah>\SonicStage\Packages\imported sound|<very long album name indeed>\<even longer track name>.OMA So suggest you create a folder called C:\Sonicstage\imported sound\, and point the storage for uploads from the HiMD at this location. Make sure that your users (that you run SS under) has Full Control Access to it. If you're running Home Premium, you may still have a problem, and you MUST run from a "Power User" or member of Administrators.

The world wants to know - which was the critical step?

Really? Then everything I said is true EXCEPT you should not have to do anything other than run the install. However: a. if you have an RH1 and also some other units, install the 32-bit driver from our downloads section (after following the directions I referred to). Otherwise you will have horrendous slowdowns and likely wear out your RH1, as per the previous thread recently b. make sure you get rid of the Connect Store URL (which will happen if you ran the Ultimate install from our downloads section). There are TWO Ultimates here - Microsoft's (edition of Windows) and Sonic Stage (ours). Still do all the rest I said, though. I'm surprised anyone is running 32-bit Windows, as I haven't seen an application that couldn't run correctly with some combination of settings in 64-bit Windows. This includes Sonic Stage. If you tried to install SimpleBurner, that might get you into a whole heap of trouble because the incompatibility there may well be to do with the version of Windows, not the 32- or 64-ness of that version.

It's not unusual for the install to fail partway through. You should simply retry right over the top of what was there already. I strongly recommend disconnecting any NetMD devices while the install is going on. I also recommend you follow the steps outlined here to get rid of the 32-bit NetMD drivers. You also need to install the 64-bit driver at some point, but that can wait for the moment, as long as you don't try to connect a NetMD unit (I'm assuming that you like most people are running 64-bit Windows 7). Also it's highly likely you've messed up the Jet (Microsoft Access) database somehow. Did you copy some stuff from another machine onto the new one? In which case it will be shot to heck unless you did it the proper way (with Sonic Stage Backup followed by Sonic Stage Restore on the new machine). Probably you need to clean off everything in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Sony Shared, especially the AVlib folder. If you have more than THREE folders in Sony Shared, stop for a moment and figure out what other Sony software is installed, and perhaps uninstall it for now. If not, go ahead and delete the lot. Now you need to get rid of all of the data in C:\Users\All Users\Sony Corporation\SonicStage. Then reboot. Finally, turn OFF automatic updates, and run the install as a user with administrator privileges. No idea what happens if you're on Windows Home Premium.

You could save a lot of correspondence if you specify all the models of the units in question. Thanks for dropping by and sorry for your loss. Prerecorded MDs are sometimes of interest because they are rare (for example there has been exaggerated interest in Michael Jackson and Celine Dion). In most cases, however, you're selling the recordABLE disks for the media. In this case, you could list how many by make, capacity (60, 74 or 80 are the nominal sizes at Standard Play recording speed), and colour. Stephen

I was about to ask the same thing, of you, Freddy. The biggest reason to use a deck, IMNSHO, is that all recordings on either input to a deck appear to get filtered in such a manner as to ensure good recordings at the data rate the recording is made. As well, lots of "stuff" (Jim Hoggarth tried to explain to me, and I can see them on the schematic, but I wouldn't really know a filter circuit from a female Ursa Minorian's bra size) is there to clean up the signal and generally get rid of noise. The same recording made on a portable is often not as good, although it may well be that HiMD portables have already implemented some of the "stuff" in the massive ASIC which is the brains of the MD recorder. Bottom line - many of the artifacts I'd get by a straight line-in (or optical in) to a relatively simple computer backplane sound card are gone. To me this is the joy of a minidisc deck. It may be that very fancy I/O cards on a PC are compensated, I have no idea. But Sony did a fabulous job. The biggest trick is cutting off frequencies above the threshold (I believe this is referred to as "mastering" but NGY or someone will correct me on that point and all the above rather wishy-washy explanation, I'm sure) so that bits are not wasted, and then reallocating bits using Type-R, in order to make good recordings EVEN IN LP4 mode. Stephen PS I have never used a filter by pushing buttons. I think they're implicit in editors like Sound Forge when you transform the sound, but again that may be my fanciful imagination.

There's no reason you cannot play BBC out the optical port of your computer and record directly to MD. Just takes time, is all. The effective conversion from broadcast to ATRAC will be much more reliable. Note that the BBC used to use ATRAC for just about everything (they sold off all their workhorse MD units about 4 years ago, they turned up on eBay), so that certainly is a measure of the quality. BBC were renowned in the business for good broadcast quality.

Well.... we're not here because of being sensible.

Cool it guys. Philippe was trying to be helpful as always. No sarcasm, I am certain. He's right, you are trying to reinvent NetMD. For a few bucks you could achieve what you want automatically.

The reason it's saying Hi-MD is because you have undoubtedly set the DISC MODE to HiMD. This doesn't matter for playback and (mainly) concerns what style of disk is formatted when you put a blank disk in and try to record. Clearly what's happening is that the RH1 sees the disk as blank. So if you can turn off the other deck completely (unplug from the wall) and the disk IS readable by that unit on power-up, then the disk being written by the JA50ES is bad. Means the alignment is out. IF the disk really is blank, (on re-power-up or in yet another deck) then you have the rather sad news that your overwrite head is blown.

Please keep your foul language to yourself. It sounds like you aren't educated enough for us to explain this to you. So I will content myself saying that it can not be done. If someone wishes to wade in past the name calling, please go ahead. I wouldn't START with MP3 to begin with, to be honest, sire.

Nah, it's fine under XP (and W2000) and can be run in the XP box under Windows 7 (presuming you have Pro or better Windows). The problem is not per se the version of Windows but the bit-ness of the OS. MCrew drivers WILL NOT work under 64-bit windows in native mode. They should work in all 32-bit versions. So a 32-bit version of W7 should be fine, except that almost noone bought it.

You really don't want to record from a CD or any other pre-recorded source using a microphone. You should have received a cable optical to optical with your N707. However you can buy one really easily on Ebay, like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/10FT-3M-Toslink-to-3-5mm-Mini-Plug-Digital-Fiber-Optical-SPDIF-M-M-Audio-Cable-/381078972661 This will enable you to record from your CD player to your MD recorder. Downloading SS is pretty easy. Provided you have a good internet connection, the whole thing takes a few minutes. Most versions of Windows 7 sold are 64-bit, FYI.

NetMD works fine with the N707 in 64-bit Windows. You have to install the 64-bit NetMD driver AFTER SonicStage by downloading it from our forums.

Precisely

Probably UAC on the user's own space - whereas some component of SS needs system access - at a guess.

Exactly so. Something like this.....http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-7-1-Channel-5-1-Optical-Audio-Sound-Card-External-Adapter-for-PC-Laptop-/401014616099

I never noticed this, for sure. That's a really silly restriction IMHO. Not sure how it is enforced, either. I do know that if you edit HiMD files on a machine that in some cases the resulting file is not uploadable due to failure to reencrypt and tag the new files, especially when they don't start on a cluster boundary. But I don't recall just how widespread that bug is - it may be limited to 2nd generation (RH10/910/M10/M100) only. It caused the QHiMDTransfer guys a lot of grief until we figured it out together.

Generally speaking the stand chargers don't work all that well. You may have gotten lucky. I would have tried running the device directly off the 3V jack form the power supply before getting into all the above discussion. You cleaned the battery terminals, and then the battery revived. Or something (er.... what's an Eneloop? If it's a non-chargeable, why did you put the device into the mains...?). Glad it's working.

That raises a good point. Are you sure sure sure that these files are Hi-SP?

Wrong impedance. You cannot do what you want to do with that combination of hardware.