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Got to say - this is fantastic I can finally destroy my old Vista 32 install which was only used for this THanks

Eek, sorry. Still, I have now learned to tie my own shoelaces!

Sorry if I missed this, Otiasj, just a quick one: What's your build environment used for the source? Visual Studio? I'd like to have a play! (I'm rubbish so probably won't provide you any useful help, just interested) Thanks Jon

Thanks for that OtiasJ. Hey, if it's not compatible with Sonicstage I don't think many people will complain! Just thought it might help people who just got a crash when they clicked ML resolve that issue. Cheers, have a great evening

This may help going forwards: Blank HD5 (I reinitialised from player menu) will no longer work with Sonicstage (It continuously says "checking if tracks were deleted without being transferred back to library" etc and then says Internal error has occured. Used Winamp plugin to add one track to player - then Sonicstage works as normal! However clicking on the Winamp track causes an exception in Sonicstage. Add tracks to player using Sonicstage. Now when clicking Media LIbrary in Winamp it instantly crashes with exception (presumably because of the presence of the Sonicstage tracks). The exception just says "unhandled win32 exception" which I know isn't that useful but my visual studio debugger is broken and I haven't reinstalled yet. If I then remove the Sonicstage tracks using SS and reload Winamp the Media Library Plugin works as before. If you need any files from my machine give us a shout. Jon

Well - I had to find time to quickly try out plugin. Renamed OMGaudio folder, plugged in. Transferred one file to player, then transferred back! Beautiful. All went swimmingly. I was of course unable to play file from device using Winamp (unable to render file) but otherwise top top work! System used WinXP Pro SP2 latest updates, Sony HD5, SonicStage 3.4 is installed, MP3Filemanager V2 installed. No GYM installed and I haven't created keys, but it worked fine just with mp3fm. Thanks loads! Jon

OtiasJ - nice one! You are a complete star. I shall try and use the plugin tomorrow. I have MP3 file manager installed so I take it that's enough to run some tests for you? Another HD5 owner. Cheers, nice one. Jon

Hmm, interesting webpages, thanks! Advanced propulsion, seems like. I've not heard of this before. It seems these guys think they can use this for propulsion in vacuum. I don't understand it though - 'cos in the last page talking about the "biefield-brown anti-gravity effect" they seem to be pushing against gravity - which would not be possible in deep space without any major bodies to push against. Interesting though. You may also (assuming you don't already) be interested to look up "Zero Point Energy" which is on the things nasa's advanced propulsion people were looking at as a possible space drive thingy. That's fascinating stuff (Again I cannot understand 70% of it!) jc edit - oops, of course it supposed to work whether in vacuum or not!

Sweet, cheers grf. Already have an rh10 but I love the look of the nh1 - and for that price I'll have one!

I think I need to visit an ear specialist! I'd never noticed this! (Although when I used my RH10 for a player more I tended to use the original Sony in the ear things and most of my library is Atrac). But comparing to computer and my HD5 it is quite obviously duller. Nowadays the MD is for recording anyways - HiSP or LinearPCM. >>Off to have ears syringed! JC

Nice to see the Apollo 440 Electro Glide in Blue up there Freebird! It's a rather good album. I managed to score it on original MD. JC

Google I think linked me to mindisc.org and found the forums from there. (I already bought into MD but I was looking for info on this mysterious "Hi MD" and looking to buy one! Glad I did!

Kid A at 192kbps MP3 - current song "National Anthem". 1. Everything In Its Right Place 2. Kid A 3. National Anthem 4. How To Disappear Completely 5. Treefingers 6. Optimistic 7. In Limbo 8. Idioteque 9. Morning Bell 10. Motion Picture Soundtrack

Hi rclimbs. I've not come across any mp3's being locked by Sonicstage at all. It just references their position on the HDD so it can find them and transfer them. HD5 - don't know about the other players to be fair, but I quite like mine. It seems really solidly built and sounds pretty nice too. I much prefer it to how the new Sony HDD machines look. And as Stuge says, it works perfectly well with Sonicstage (I quite like Sonicstage nowadays!).

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Just phoned my local(ish) Sony Centre (the Ipswich one if it helps) and the guy there confirms that as soon as they are available I can buy one from him! So you should be fine buying one as a consumer in UK. Hope this helps.

I cannot remember what the show is called (trying!!) but there was a normal MD portable used to record evidence in a UK BBC TV fiction series. (It's the one where they have a few undercover people who investigate various allegations of police indiscretions and pretend to be part of the force to investigate), was on autumn last year). Sorry I can't remember show title, but was nice to see it on a primetime UK show!

I think the HD5 is alright. You can (VERY SLIGHTLY) hear the spin up of the disc sometimes in the headphones I'm sure, this seems worse when connected to mains for interest. The sound quality otherwise seems as good as the RH10 just about (I think the RH10 packs out a louder slightly better sound to my ears). Obviously as Stuge says the transfer times are completely different. Some have said Sonicstage is slower than some but I've found the transfer rate pretty high (much more than the RH10). And the build quality seems much much better than the RH10 to me. Hope this helps! JC

I can think of 4 people I know with MD (not gone to Hi-MD though, and 1 admits he never uses his). I can think of about 18 people with a DAP (most Ipods but my old boss had an Iriver and me and a colleague have the HD5). My support of Hi-MD in the office unfortunately resulted in comments such as "out of date" and "looks like a floppy disc". But I think they think of old MD and Hi-MD as the same unfortunately.

Okay, thanks Eschelon! Only had mine since (err, last June I think!). Well, at least I know better late than never!

Hehe @danielbb90, I'm sorry to say I didn't even notice that! I guess I was just lucky!

Hi MDFreak, cheers for reply. I suppose I just made the assumption - that if you can upload home recorded stuff but not NetMD transferred stuff, then you also couldn't upload your old original prerecorded albums. If I can get my old originals into my Sonicstage library then I will be ecstatic! JC

Well - thank you Sony! I think I will have to have one. The only downer (not that this affects the use for live recording obviously) is that I will no doubt not be able to archive my original MD albums onto HIMD for listening on the move. Bah. Right, now let's have a deck in UK to save me importing the Onkyo! JC

Now that rocks! I'm off to download. So Sony actually do occasionally listen to us! Nice one. Thanks Kurisu for heads up. I wonder how my HD5 will do with this update mind? hmmm CHeers Jon

Nice one, I got 'em. Cheers again. Jon