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This is the best forum ever. Thanks Stephen. Oh and a correction from me: If I'm running M-Crew on the CMT-M333NT and then start up SS and select it as the active device the M-Crew functionality switches off and the NetMD light illuminates on the front panel. Which makes sense really because while you are using it as an MD recorder to rip a disc you can't use the other functions anyway. I have told the guy at the computer shop that I want to come in and test my programs and hardware on a similar system first so that I get a definite confirmation before I commit to the build. PS - I have all original discs with my MD gear so if you need a driver I can burn you a copy or something. Best,

Thanks for the quick reply, I've been an MD fan since '98 or so but since about '05 I have made it my mission to run everything on MD. I think this was as a bit of a rebellion from the ipod and itunes (which I have never owned and refuse to use). All of a sudden Apple came out with a portable music player and the next thing everyone couldn't go anywhere without their music and made a real point of saying so. I was like 'us MD people have been doing this for years' nothing new here. So now I love driving to the snow with my ipod mates and a mix up MD playing in the car then getting out and throwing that same MD in my portable and listening to it while I ride, then I can get hame and put the same MD on in the lounge room. Try doing that on your ipod. Removable media is the way to go. I may also have a thing for minority formats too as I am also a Laser Disc collector... Rant over. I LOVE my CMT-M333NT it works pretty much as an off-board sound card for my PC. Just plug in the USB cable and you can switch to the "PC" input on the unit and crank the awesome quality through those speakers. The NetMD function means that when ever I want to create an MD from SS it's already plugged in and waiting for me and with M-Crew all of the systems controls appear in a neat toolbar at the top of the screen. You can change inputs play stuff, adjust volume all from the mouse, pretty much anything you can do do with the remote is on screen. I have the MDS-JB980 connected through a long USB repeater to the lounge room but as far as I know it's not M-Crew compatible. That being said, you do have control of the deck through SS when it is the active NetMD device and can play music remotely that way (Very cool). On the Win7 issue again I saw that in another post titled "Windows 7 64-bit Sonicstage 4.3" you said in reply to a post stating that SS4.3 would work with Win764 "Sure, as long as you don't need NetMD compatibility. Presumably all of these devices speak Atrac3+, perhaps you conld confirm that it's possible/not-possible to upload from SP disk on RH1?" NetMD is vital to my new PC so I just wanted to make sure this would work in a Win7 64/32 OS? PS - I looked into the HTPC option but it was just a bit much for me at the moment as I don't really have any downloaded movies to stream as I prefer the old fashioned hard copies. Any video media I do have I can just stream through the X-Box 360 so that's doing the job for now. I did not know about the problems with sharing SS media to different users though. I'll be installing a small NAS and was planning on having that as the media hub so what was it that I need to be careful of here to ensure all computers on the network can access the media? Best,

Wow I'm glad I stumbled onto this thread! I'm running XP with SS 4.3 and M-Crew at the moment. I avoided upgrading to Vista because of feared compatibility issues with the OS running SS/NetMD and talking to my MDS-JB980 & CMT-M333NT. My PC is on it's last legs and I'm speccing a new Win7 64 system because I heard about the virtual XP mode it has. Stephen, you seem to be the man on this topic so should I go for a Win7 32 system build instead? Or are there just too many compatibility issues and I should keep my XP 32 OS and just upgrade my components? I use SS to rip MD's mainly and as a music library, so the NetMD function is essential for me. I also do not have a concern starting from scratch with regards to updating the music library as it's currently a mess and I'm installing a NAS with the new system that I want to use for all the SS media. I'd love to hear your thoughts.