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Ive got a solution....I'll buy a more reliable platform next time I think! Thanks for your inputs

Sadly no! The path to the SS library is ok. My .WAV and .MP3 files all still play okay .... just the ATRAC3Plus Open MG audio files which I made from my vinyl record collection with Mastering Studio are affected ... which makes me think this problem is an ATRAC3plus Codec problem. Thing is it will not let me convert the ATRAC files back to .MP3 or .WAV either. I think this is possibly a "rights issue" problem as the SS ATRAC believes falsely these files are "rights protected". I have attached a screen print which shows the fields "number of times played" "number of transfers remaing" "number of audio CD transfes remaining" etc and they all say ZERO - which is not correct and leads me to think SS is somehow blocking me from handling these files. None of the other .WAV or .MP3 files are subject to "digital rights management" issues and wikipedia entries lead me to think this "rights issue" may be the source of the bug why the ATRAC files will not play. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Stage

When? SS for LISMO was launched February 1st 2008 - thats last month. If you mean simply closing the Connect Music Store then thats like apologising for giving me cancer three years after I was diagnosed terminally ill with a Viao laptop. As of March 2008, 8 au phones (manufactured by Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, Casio-Hitachi Mobile and Sanyo) will all support LISMO's ATRAC service....thats a bad secondary infection if you ask me and another time bomb for owners. So here's todays news... SS is an integral part of the Vaio product and has been for years and those of us who are members and who have put a lot of good money into SONY, Sonic Stage and the Mastering Studio need and expect a reliable fix for the years of cock ups caused and not the monkeys SONY has lined up on the support center phones to try and pasify us. Vaio units sold since 1996 are still part of the present and the future and need to be sorted out at SONY's expense.

Given the size of the on going problems with Sonic Stage, OpenMG and ATRAC / Codecs (just look at the volume of postings in this forum alone) did SONY not expect this time bomb when they decided to put their name to their own flagship music management system? I have been dealing with Sony Support through Club Viao (supposedly their premium product) since February and I have already been passed through three different on-line managers Nicholas, Harry and Justin, finally resorting to investigating the problem myself via this forum. How can any technical problem be resolved when their is absolutely no continuity in service or personnel or when SONY have not apparently got the technology right. Its not rocket science to know whether your deailing with the bank, your doctor or technology on which you have spent a few thousand pounds of your "hard earned" you want the same person every time to deal with your query. SONY:If you cannot pay the wages to keep your people happy or give us (your paying customers) the support to fix a flawed platform them dump SS and ATRAC and lets get back to some old favourites like MP3.

With a small touch screen and many more utilities in the future screen scrolling will then become inevitable which is really just the equivalent (and no better) than buttons. Anyway dont panic because when you get old you will realise buttons are cool too (I like them in my car also instead of LCD display)!!!

That is a fair comment. I do in actually have each LP I transferred onto SS Mastering Studio safely backed up on a separate audio CD but I still dont want to go back to using SS all over again (as a music management system) until I got this bug figured out. I think the problem is centered around SS wrongly thinking all my ATRAC3Plus format audio files are "rights protected" as its showing in all fields of the SS4.3 libabry (as it did with my previous old SS version) that there are "0 remaining transfers" "0 remaining ATRAC CD transfers" and that each audio file has been played "O" times. Thats an error in itself as most of these tracks have been played and burned onto CDR hundreds of times. When I try to use SS4.3 itself to convert the format back to MP3 or WAV I get an error 00000908-6482 message from SS(see screen shot). When I use an external conversion system (like HiMdRender) the audio files do apparently convert format (they show up with the new .WAV suffix in a new folder) but will still not play with Media Player which produces an error code 0xCOD1199 which is an unsupported file type. One interesting thing when I use HiMdRender to convert the ATRAC3Plus files to .MP3 instead of .WAV it gives an error code (601-2-0) and says HiMdRender could not find the required DLL and to make sure all external encoders DLL's are in the same folder as HiMrRenderWin.exe. Iam not a computer buff AT ALL but do you think this HiMrRender error message could be a clue to my problem?

I installed SS4.3 onto my Vaio laptop lately hoping it would fix a big problem I had encountered with SS on my faithful old VGN A115B Vaio laptop but NO! All my OPEN MG files in SS suddenly refuse to play (this is my entire vinyl library transferred over years onto SS with SS Mastering Studio). All my WAV and MP3 audio files are fine but after burning an audio CD copy of one of my vinyl records for a friend I got an error message "Hard Drive Full" and the burn crashed. Since that day none of my OPEN MG format audio files will play. So far Sony Support have not come up with a fix, mainly some very rudimentary suggestions like converting file format back to MP3 etc. I have tried HiMdRender to transfer all the ATRAC3plus files back to another format but they will not convert either. I think this may be a bug with the SS "Rights Issues License" as in my SS music library all the OPEN MG files suddenly have 0 beside all the fields "number of times played" "remaining transfers" and "remaining ATRAC CD transfers remaining". In reality all these OPEN MG audio files of mine are simply my own work, not downloads or licensed product - but SS seems to not want to let me play them anylonger. When I press the play icon on SS it simply does not respond. You cannot open pr play the file via Media Player either. The files still exist, there is a file size and location/path still shown but SS will not play ball and let me touch them any longer. Has anyone had any similar experiences or could suggest whats happened. APOLOGY: In my haste as a new member I may have posted a little earlier on a separate thread by accident. EDIT: My Vaio laptop is a VGN A115B running Windows XPHome now with SS4.3 fully updated with no previous interventions, maintenance or repairs. Only problem is with playing audio files of ATRAC3Plus format.

I installed SS4.3 hoping it would fix a big problem I had encountered with SS on my faithful old VGN A115B Vaio laptop but NO! All my OPEN MG files in SS suddenly refuse to play (this is my entire vinyl library transferred over 24 months onto SS with SS Mastering Studio). All my WAV and MP3 audio files are fine but after burning an audio CD copy of one of my vinyl records for a friend I got an error message "Hard Drive Full" and the burn crashed. Since that day none of my OPEN MG files will play. So far Sony have not come up with a fix. I have tried HiMdRender to transfer all the ATRAC3plus files back to another format but they will not convert either. I think this may be a bug with the SS "Rights Issues License" as in my SS music library all the OPEN MG files suddenly have 0 beside all the fields "number of times played" "remaining transfers" and "remaining ATRAC CD transfers remaining". In reality all these audio files of mine are simply my own work, not downloads or purchased tracks but SS seems to not want to let me play them anylonger. Has anyone had any similar experiences or suggest a fix? EDIT: My Vaio laptop is a VGN A115B running Windows XPHome now with SS4.3 fully updated with no previous interventions, maintenance or repairs. Only problem with playing audio files of ATRAC3Plus format.