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Your certainly onto something here as you have tricked SS into thinking that a song still has check outs remaining. But there is something more to it than that, maybe another folder or the actual database it's self. There are three tables in the SS database have a look and see if you can figure out whats going on. The three methods I have used to avoid check in/out are: 1. The nero/simpleburner trick 2. RealPlayer Plugin 3. Deletion of SS database and atrac files... re-import your files, bang get your 3 check outs back.

arh the real one player plugin is a great little piece of software. The only problem I find is that, it's a little slow. It would be great if it could convert files WHILST transfering to the MD. In the pic above click configure and choose 66 or 132 kbps 66 denotes LP4 play and 132 denotes LP2, it's confusing because it doesn't mention MDLP. You can ignore the 105 option.

Well if an average song is ~5 minutes long 16 will fit in SP mode ...32 in LP2 ...64 in LP4

Is this old hat? Because I have been looking for something like this for ages. Thanks to you for bringing this to my attention and to the bloke who wrote the scripts, I was never aware that the check out info was held in that directory. I have spent many hours scouring over the SonicStage access database MtData thinking that the check out info was held there :roll: I was content with using RealPlayer and the plugin to transfer my MP3s to my MDplayer until I found a little trick to speed up transfer in sonic stage, using this trick its around twice as fast as using RealPlayer. As it Transfers files and converts remaining files together. So thanks again, this is now my prefered method to send MP3s to my MD player.