Steve...

And adding to that, some further useful infomation: For those of you who do not have or do not wish to purchase NERO BURNING ROM, you can instead use the NERO FAST BURNING PLUGIN for WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 9 SERIES.... WMP 9 is free from microsoft, as well as the plugin, which is free from the makers of NERO... This plugin will allow you to burn WMA/MP3/WAV files to a "NERO IMAGE" (.nrg) file, which can be mounted with Daemon Tools (also free)... Then just use Simple Burner as described above...

Yeah on that note i got OMG files to play in Windows Media Player - but it comes up with an error message first saying that OMG is not a recognised file format. But it plays anyway. I'm not sure about the OMG CD burning in windows media player... i must give that a try! I know that the Nero plugin for windows media player doesn't support OMG. Now if only someone were to come up with an ATRAC3 plugin for Nero! Or even better - a plugin/decoder/encoder to allow you to edit OMG files with Goldwave or your wave editing software - I don't think the Direct Show Filter allows this - at least not on my PC...

In addition to the usual PC -> MD transfer, SonicStage is also capable of burning ATRAC Cds & regular Audio CDs & the new upcoming version (2.0) is capable of reading CD text as well as MP3 cds!!! Of course ATRAC Cds can only be made on SonicStage that came with an ATRAC Cd walkman, and the rest of the features (ie. cd burning) only come with SonicStage installed on Sony VAIO computers :x Would it be wrong to presume that this setting could be overided with a few registry tweaks? Or does sony release different versions for different operating environments? Perhaps someone would even be nice enough to provide a copy of the SonicStage VAIO version!

Hi. Discovered this while browsing the Sony Europe site. 8) http://www.support-nwwalkman.com/uk/Downlo...elprojector.asp It's nothing terribly great, just lets you print fancy looking label stickers for your MDs. What do ppl think?

yeah... i have exactly the same problem.... so sony isn't as dumb as i thought... (there has to be a better way, there just has to....!)

I'm not to sure whether many ppl realise this, but there was a post in this forum a little while back by 'coathanger' explaining how you can avoid the 3 checkout limits in sonicstage. Perhaps what confused everyone was the use of VBscripts, but belive it or not, you CAN actually avoid the checkout limit... I'll re-explain the method below since the original post was a little vauge.... (sorry coathanger! :wink: ) :arrow: Firstly, you will need to create a temporary directory to store the backups of your OMG Checkout info. (in this example i am using 'c:tempomgbackup' but you can use any folder you wish) :arrow: Copy/Import your music into sonicstage using the normal method (i prefer using ATRAC3 for a speedy download to MD) :arrow: Now SonicStage stores all the checkin/checkout info in the "C:Program FilesCommon FilesSony SharedOpenMGprocfile" folder. Once you have the checkout counters set where you want them, all you need to do is copy the entire contents of this folder to the temporary directory. This will effectivley "backup" your checkout limits. To automate this process, you can use the following VBscript. (for those of u who don't know, a VBscript is essentially a batch file for your operating system - it has the file extention *.vbs). So, open notepad and save the following code as the file OMGBackup.vbs Function BackupOMG() Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") objFSO.CopyFolder "C:Program FilesCommon FilesSony SharedOpenMGprocfile" , "c:tempomgbackup" , 1 Set objFSO = nothing End Function box = MsgBox("Backup SonicStage Checkout Limits?", vbyesno) If box = 6 Then BackupOMG() End If :arrow: Then Checkout your files to MD in sonic stage using the normal method :arrow: Once you have reached the 3 checkout limit, you can simply "restore" the checkout limits. Close SonicStafe and then copy the contents of the your temporary folder (ie. C:tempomgbackup) back to the "procfile" folder. Again, you can use VBscript to automate this.... Save the following code as the file OMGRestore.vbs Function RestoreOMG() Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") objFSO.CopyFolder "c:tempomgbackup" , "C:Program FilesCommon FilesSony SharedOpenMGprocfile" , 1 Set objFSO = nothing End Function box = MsgBox("Restore SonicStage Checkout Limits?", vbyesno) If box = 6 Then RestoreOMG() End If :arrow: Reopen SonicStage, and lo and behold, your checkout limits will be restored to their previous settings! :arrow: Smile, because no longer will you have to worry about checkout limits! :arrow: And to make things even easier, just create shortcuts to the *.vbs files on your start menu!!! YES, AND PLEASE VISIT THE ORIGINAL POST - I DON'T WANNA TAKE CREDIT FOR SIMPLY RE-TYPING SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK! http://forums.minidisc.org/viewtopic.php?t=3318 Hope this helps!

Nice to hear that this method is working (for some ppl)... I wasn't sure if it was going to work for everyone since I already have Nero 5.5 (came bundled with my CD writer) installed. BTW, Here's the link: http://www.nero.com/en/wmp-plugin.php Note that this method will only work with MP3, WMA, and WAV files. I tried to use it to burn files encoded in ATRAC3 and it refused, despite the fact that WMP is perfectly capable of playing back ATRAC3 data. Also, this plugin is supposed burn faster than the standard Cd burning feature in WMP and can also burn CDs without the annoying 2-second gap that Windows Media Player puts in between every track - useful for recording live shows etc... Best of all this method is 100% free and legal... Hope it helps some frustrated NetMD users!