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Under Options you can find Advanced Settings. Here you can delete temporary files, if I'm correct this also deletes Attrac files that were created solely for transfering tracks to a device

The idea is to come up with new functions that could enhance SS or CP's functionality. My idea: a queuing line - When a song is playing, you select an other song and that song will be put in the queue. When the current song is finished, the song from the queue will be played. After that song the next song is decided upon the playmode and taking the initial song as last played. Thus is you use normal play, song 5 is playing, you select song 8 to queue. First song 5 will play, then song 8 and then song 6. The queue line should contain up to 5 songs or so. It's a bit like a 'program' function that some players have, except you don't have to select all songs before, but you can do it while playing. You got any idea's for new/adjusted functions??

Isn't it possible to select the songs in the group and drag them out of the group? That way, you just drag them out of the group and then delete the group.

I sort of have the same problem. After upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0, some MP3 sound all weird. Like playing them at 10x speed or something. At the same time, this just happened to 1 file, a mp3 suddenly only plays at half speed.

some of my mp3's suddenly stopped working. I have 2 that are suddenly played all scrambled and an other mp3 file that suddenly plays at half speed! These songs did work with previous versions

my SSCP only uses much memory when I'm on connect store (around 70mb). When the program is running in the background, minimized, it only uses around 10mb which sounds very decent to me. As for your "100% CPU problem", I used to have this very same problem with Windows Media Player. According to windows, this was caused by a failure during installation. Reinstalling didn't resolve it though, you had to download a patch from the windows site. Don't know, but maybe there is a similarity between these two cases??

Maybe that's Sony's way of fixing?? If it doesn't work, just remove it??

good idea Stuge! I'll edit my first post

Great!! it's working! OK, let's pull of some custom skins:P

hmm....it's actually quite funny what happened. Saying they are going to replace a crappy programm by a much better programm, but in the end the crappy programm appears to be much better. hmm....it's actually quite sad aswell:(

open 'Start' menu: Control panel -> System The first tab should display whether SP2 is installed, like this System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 <-- that's it:P

same here Gracenote didn't work on 3.2 & 3.3 (not sure about 3.1), but works fine on 3.4

Well, I was trying to change the SS skin, but with not much luck. I was only able to change the startup screen and the titlebar. I redid the play/pause/stop etc. buttons, but sonicstage keeps displaying the standard buttons (though these files where replaced by the new ones). So untill someone finds out how to solve this, my attempt is pretty much failed

maybe you should enable smoothing in the options menu?? Tools / options / CD Drive settings / CD importing

I'm not very into programming or XML, but I was able to find out that SS indeed uses the files mentioned earlier. So now I really don't get why it isn't working. Some files I edit do change in SS, others don't.

good idea! here's the link: http://rapidshare.de/files/13943848/PxEngine20435d.exe.html

I've been trying to customize SonicStage, but so far with not much luck. I found the image files SS uses and I was able to change the titlebar and the start-up screen. However, I also edited the Play, pause, stop, ff, rew buttons, but when I start up SS it still uses the default buttons. I used PE explorer to look in the Omgjbox.exe file, but I could find the image files there either. Does SS uses the image files for the buttons from a different location?? I edited the files in the folder found under C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\Image\SourcePlayer\ Anyone knows where I can find the files SS uses, or what I am doing wrong?? EDIT: HERE'S HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM SONICSTAGE!!! Background: Create / search for a nice background, preferably in 1024x768 format or greater for better results, in either JPEG or BMP. place this file in the correct folder, probably: C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\Image\Background Titlebar: probably in C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\Image\Customize. You can edit both the active and inactive titlebar. Startupscreen: C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\Image\Background\Splash.bmp Buttons: all buttons can be edited, but this is quite some work: every button consists of 4 states; disabled, hot, normal & pushed. Disabled is the state when the button can't be used, hot is when your mouse pointer is over it (aka highlight), normal is not pushed but enabled, pushed means....well....pushed;) You can search yourself for the buttons you want to change (opening the bitmap file will make clear what button it is in most of the cases). The control buttons (play, pause etc.) are located here: C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\Image\SourcePlayer in the corresponding folders Selectbar: the blue bar that highlights a song or album you clicked. C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\Image\SourcePanelJukebox\AlbumListView\SelectFrame.png this file contains the album highlighter (in Icon view). You can give this a cool effect by using transparancy!! I can't locate the highlighter for songs, you know where it is? let me know and I'll add it here. Searching the C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\Image\ folder, you can find all image files that can be changed. Just search these to change what you like. Some help with finding what you search for: -SourcePlayer: contains the control buttons like play and pause -SourcePanelEMD: contains all the CONNECT Store related buttons -SourcePanelPD: contains all the transfer-to-device buttons -SourcePanelJukebox: contains all the buttons from the playlist window, like musicnote icons, album jacket etc. NOW... TO MAKE YOUR CHANGES WORK!! THIS MUST BE DONE!! GO TO C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Data\XML AND DELETE: App.bmp_ THIS FILE CONTAINS ALL IMAGES SONICSTAGE CURRENTLY USES, SO SS WILL NOT LOAD YOUR FILES AS LONG AS IT CAN USE THE FILES FROM THIS PACKAGE. Thnx to everyone who contributed to this topic and helped solving the "customizing SonicStage" mystery some screenies from my attempts: new startup screen check out the background, control buttons, album highlighter and titlebar

I had the same problem as you have. You need to update your PX engine, as far as I know it is a programm that is responsible for communication between programms and your CD-writer. Searching the internet you should be able to find it, unfortunatly I can't remember where I got it from.