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Search the computer for .oma files. Maybe SonicStage put them somewhere else and doesn't know where to look for them. The smaller the files that you keep, the less sound quality they have. So I suggest keeping original mp3 files around, or whatever you started with, not just optimized ATRACs. When there's a space crunch on my computer, I just burn the mp3s to CDs.

From Help: If noise occurs frequently during importing from CD you can select this option...This may reduce or eliminate the noise, but the reading process may take longer.

If you can boot into Windows, you can run SonicStage. Use a current version, at least 3.4 or above.

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Sure, you can pretend you don't have a Hi-MD and record them in realtime. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070 Otherwise, it's SonicStage only. The black box problem sounds like you have skinning software installed--it has to be disabled. Beyond that, why don't you start a new Software query with information on what hardware you're using, what Windows you're using, what steps you have taken. For instance, have you COMPLETELY uninstalled 2.1 according to these steps? http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=8071 Try that, and then install a 4.x version one more time and see if it works.

Your NF810 recording is either in SP, LP2 or LP4. The NF810 can't upload those formats--only the MZ-RH1 can. All you can do is record it to your computer in realtime. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070

The MDAC Repair Tool, for database repair, might help. http://forums.minidisc.org/downloads/details.php?file=8

As long as the files are in My Library--and are playable, I assume you've tried--then perhaps you should use something else to burn the CDs. I never use SonicStage for anything that doesn't absolutely require it. Highlight the files in SonicStage and under Tools, click Save in .wav . Make a new folder for them. When converted, they are unencrypted and free for you to use. If for any reason SonicStage doesn't want to Save in .wav, then download Hi-MD Renderer (under Software Discussion) and use that to convert them to .wav. Then use another program to burn a CD: Windows Media Player, Winamp, iTunes, etc. By the way, if you have a Line-in input on your computer (or buy the Griffin iMic for about $40, which will give you a line-in jack via USB), you could skip the whole minidisc stage and just record directly into your computer--just connect the headphone-out of the cassette player to Line-in and record with Audacity.

That's very bizarre behavior. It is not at all common. This is the first report I have seen of a trashed upload in 3.4. Had the file on the disc been transferred previously with an old version of SonicStage, before SS 3.2? Older versions of SonicStage only allowed one transfer from MD to computer, marked the file, and then, out of sheer evil, deleted the file if a second transfer was attempted. Otherwise I have no idea why your problem occurred. Unfortunately, the write-protect tab will prevent you from uploading at all. A folder on the computer will not be deleted when copying to minidisc. Sony has never tried to prevent transfers in that direction, from PC to MD. One thing I would suggest is to uncheck .wav conversion. Let SonicStage simply upload to My Library. Then convert to .wav once a copy is in your computer. SonicStage takes a lot of processing power, and perhaps, with a big PCM file that it was also trying to convert to .wav, it just freaked out.

You should be able to upload any format recorded on the MZ-RH910, if that's the unit you are using. Is the write-protect tab of the MD fully closed (unprotected), as it should be? What format shows when you play back the recordings?

Here are some actual head-shaped ones. No idea what the materials are. http://www.head-acoustics.de/2p-fra-e.htm http://www.performanceaudio.com/cgi/produc...ducts_id=002522 http://www.pugetsoundman.com/articles/stereo/binaural.htm With omni mics you don't have to stand stock-still, though I don't recommend twirling as you record. You could just get mics with clips and clip them to eyeglasses or mount them in headphones, too.

I refuse to buy music with DRM. You can find a lot of independent music for download at Emusic : http://www.emusic.com . It uses .mp3 with no restrictions at all and is 100 percent legitimate. Try searching it for some of the music you were looking for to see if it makes sense for you to subscribe.

Innlaeufer, what version of SonicStage are you using?

Last upgrade I did was to the 3.4 that came with the RH1, so I have no comment on 4.0. I have complete trust in the MDCF installers. But everybody seems to want alternatives and old versions, especially people who were having trouble with ID3 tags and SS 4.x. There have been a number of posts here about people wanting to revert to 3.4, and some for whom reverting to 3.4 solved their problems. The 4.0 installer is one that was on Sony's FTP site for a while and the 3.4 RH1 installer is a disc image of the installation disc. I thought there was some problem about hosting Sony's own software on this site. 67 people have downloaded the 4.0 installer and 330 people have downloaded the 3.4 installer, so there is a demand for them. It's all good with me if the MDCF 3.4 installer is restored to Downloads instead. The quicksharing links don't have an easy way to take down the files, but if I can remember the password to close the savefiles sites I'll take down 3.2 through 3.4 there. Do you want to host the 244 MB .iso of the RH1 disc?

I have no idea what makes the Lite Guy worth $1000, but I doubt that it's a regular pillow. A pillow is soft and will absorb sound. Your head is hard (I hope) and will reflect sound, and those reflections are part of what you want to capture if you use HRTF (head related transfer function, binaural recording with a head). So there's probably something under the cover of the Lite Guy that's more substantial than feathers or stuffing. Your other idea, about the styrofoam head, would likely give you better fidelity. Your binaural stand doesn't have to be head-shaped either. Another binaural gadget is called a Jecklin disc: a hard disc with something soft on each side. Could be easier to construct. Take a look at these: http://www.core-sound.com/jecklin/1.php http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/jecklin.html http://www.josephson.com/tn5.html

It doesn't work too well on a Mac, being a PC program.

Santa Claus left a copy of the full installation disc for the MZ-RH1 version of SonicStage 3.4 here. http://s15.quicksharing.com/v/8783199/SS3.4RH1.iso.html It is an ISO disc image, so you would need Nero or another program to burn an installation CD. It is 244MB, a big download. It will upload SP, LP2 and LP4 files but ONLY from the MZ-RH1. It will not do that with other hardware. Meanwhile, Sony's former full online installer for 4.0 is here: http://s23.quicksharing.com/v/9374647/Soni...200_UN.exe.html MDCF's old full 3.4 installer is here until Kurisu gets it back into Downloads. http://www.savefile.com/files/194995 MDCF has nothing to do with posting these versions. They just happen to be available online.

It's primarily a hardware limitation: a USB 1.1 connection and the read/write speed of the MD media. SonicStage is also unencrypting as it uploads, so that probably slows things down a bit too. If you want to experiment and see how much SonicStage is slowing down the hardware connection, try copying the HMA file through Windows Explorer, though you won't be able to do anything with it. No one has broken the Sony encryption yet, although people were working on it for a while. Now that the RH1 will upload new and old recordings, there's not much incentive to try.

The first step, burning to CD, should not result in quality loss because you are not compressing the files any further. But the second step, reimporting to SS, does involve another compression, so there is some quality loss, depending on what bitrate of ATRAC you are using to import--that is, how much you are compressing the file. Whether it's negligible depends on your ears and your playback system. Play an original Connect file and an imported-from-CD file side by side. How much difference do you hear?

Depends on what version of SonicStage was in your crashed laptop. Older versions--I think before 3.2--only let you upload once and tagged the recording as no longer uploadable. If there was a more recent version in your laptop, you can upload from the disc again. I suggest making an analog copy before you try doing anything else with the disc. But if you're confident that it was a recent version of SonicStage, uploading again should be no problem.

It was just one disc, and I never had the patience to test whether it was one physical spot on the disc. I think I just threw it out. Sorry to be so unscientific.

Hi-MD Renderer. http://www.marcnetsystem.co.uk/himdrenderer054.zip Once you have uploaded .oma files to SonicStage, Hi-MD Renderer will convert anything in My Library to just about any format you'd like. More info in the Hi-MD Renderer forum http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showforum=102 If you like it, send Marcnet a little something via Paypal. He has been generous enough to keep Hi-MD Renderer as freeware.

I had exactly the same problem on one of the first Hi-MD blanks I got, which was one of the earlier opaque ones. I haven't had any trouble with the translucent blue ones. But I believe other people have reported occasional problems. They're rare, but they do happen. Luckily you can still listen to the music and make a realtime copy of it.

Besides the White House? Try "foam head" or "styrofoam head" in eBay.