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If you have Hi-MD (eg MZ-RH1) far and away the best way to convert FLAC will be using Sound Forge 10. I have a feeling SF9 doesn't support FLAC. This will do a file to file conversion. If, as suggested, you go via WAV, you may lose information and make the conversion muddy.

If it's blank I'd throw it out before somehow the mould gets spread around. If there were music on there I could see a problem worth fixing. Sorry for your loss.

It's not that it's against our rules.... but please do not do this. Everyone reads everything. To be honest, it's not all that likely you will find an RH1. Better to wait until someone offers one for sale. Thanks.

It's not that. Everyone here reads everything. So no need to repeat yourself in a bunch of old threads. Welcome.

Can you read the Windows directory of the disk?

Please stop spamming the board.

This is not clear. Some USB chargers seem to work significantly better than others.

Except you'll never get more than 5V outta USB

Sorry misunderstood. If all you need is the round socket with 6V supplied with power, why not order a proper 6V power supply?

No good for NH1, Philippe. I guess Jeff's concern is whether, when connected via the proper supplied USB cable, NH1 can charge. I honestly don't recall and I cannot get to my NH1 to test.

Indeed. He says it plays DVDs. I totally realise that's a different laser frequency but... the common thing with BD is that they read data but refuse to play movies. The signature condition is that you can see a windows directory but cannot play movies.

What an item for his 1st eBay transaction!?

Who said anything about firmware? There must be other reasons/mechanisms for encryption failure. AFAIK (content) manufacturers keep changing the algorithms via the dynamically loaded program stored on the BD. I'd be inclined to give DVDFab a shot. I bought a laptop BD drive aftermarket .... and no way was it going to work until I got software to defeat the encryption (it was the right unit for that laptop). Sort of like when you buy a replacement faceplate for a car head unit -the manufacturer locks them to force you to pay the big bucks to their dealership (actually it's supposed to be to discourage theft, which it probably does). The 8 months you mention sounds more like a certificate expiry than actual use monitoring.

More likely they need updates to keep the encryption keys current. You probably need to connect to the Internet a few times per year.

Actually 2nd generation HiMD's DO charge from USB. RH1 (3rd gen) too.

Look for X-Application and Mora, the version you probably want is 5.3. As far as the NetMD goes, are you sure that's what you really want? The biggest problem these days is that current computers don't support NetMD at all, so we had to come up with driver packages for Windows 7 (works on 8). Richard? Edit: so as you don't miss Richard's post (below), I definitely got X-App working on XP. But that didn't help me much as my ability to read Japanese is non-existent, and the drivers I had at that time did NOT work on that computer (USB problem) with any device that X-App supported - so I gave up and took it off again.

No need for phono cable. Your RH1 will do the job perfectly. Recommend you pick 256kbps (HiSP) as the upload format, this is probably the default, in One thing, make sure you de-protect the resulting files using the File Conversion Tool. If you are running Vista, W7 or W8 64-bits, you will need the 64-bit driver rather than the 32-bit one that comes in the SS package.

Have you tried any other makes?

That simply will never happen. It's equivalent to asking the P*pe to worship J**** in a m*sque. He won't want to do it, and the authorities of the m*sque won't allow it either. I have no idea why originally-mp3 podcasts "Improve" by converting to MD. I have plenty of great sounding MP3's (actually they're OMA files converted on-the-fly by my DLNA server but no matter) playing on Android, though it is essential to have some good headphones. I'm wondering if you ran into the same problem that I initially did with the setup I described. It might seem reasonably to convert MP3 and OMA (ATRAC) by using approximately the same data rate on both sides of the conversion. WRONG! If you figure that all converted files need to be "upsampled", ie never convert with an output of less than 256kbps especially TO mp3, you'll do much better.

To start with, use a more recent version of Sonic Stage, indeed the one we have here version 4.3. Don't try getting it from anywhere else. Here in fact: The second problem is: what about the recordings you have already? They are in danger of being lost, if not already. You'll have to explain to us what you did when you "upgraded?" to Windows 7, as very few people actually managed to do that with an existing machine, most preferring to buy a new one and transfer the data they cared about. How do you get (new) recordings onto your computer? Do you need to listen to them from some portable device, and if so which one, what model number? etc etc. This means transferring them from PC to portable device...... but maybe you don't have that particular problem.

Skip this thread for 64-bit Windows entirely. You need the driver posted here:

What does the table have to do with the problem?

You have mail; check your pm box

Your son must be an adult with access to the service manual and more (the manual itself does NOT have the codes to enter service mode) in the scenario we have been imagining here. It is almost impossible that this happened by accident. The only other scenario is that someone innocently dropped it on the floor from a great height; or committed some other indignity such as filling it with food (ice cream?) and then washed it out - causing the death of some of the equipment inside the case. Nothing we can tell you is likely to help and the unit is likely dead forever in this case. It would be best if whoever did this were to communicate with us directly themselves. If not possible (eg a 3-year old), please do try removing the battery. After that, your best bet is to communicate with Sony since they appear to offer a "flat-rate" service for most repairs to this unit (still). Only a week ago someone in the UK reported that they had sent off an MZ-RH1 on this basis (payment only if successful). My deduction from this is that Sony has a stock of refurbished RH1's - they are way too expensive to repair otherwise. This is one of the oddest reports I have ever read. But I lead a sheltered life.....

You're right, there it is on p.20. It wasn't in the list of diagnostic error codes and I didn't see it in the text. As I surmised it's merely telling you you're stuck in service mode. As long as he didn't actually change any settings it's probably safe to hope for the best and clear this error. However if it comes back after having no battery, you may well be stuck with a full alignment (this error code would be normal after a "911" reset). This is not so easy. Just doing a "resume clear" won't cut it..... probably there is work to be done filling in all the (non-defaulted) NVRAM values which the alignment ("Overall Servo Adjustment") generates.