jellyman

i had a similar problem. says something like 'sonic stage only supports 16 bit 44100Hz recordings, please use supported media' etc. in my experience it appears to be sonicstage not recognising the rights info and makes it invalid. i cunningly changed the tracks using a shareware mp3 editor by removing 10 frames or so from the beginning of the track which isn't noticeable (esp. if its blank sound to start with) and then reimported it. obviously sonic stage thinks its a completely new track and starts from the begining. it generally works for me although a complete hastle to do if it happens a lot. let me know if it helps dave

i think my work around works because it completely changes the property of the file so it has to deal with it as if its never seen it before. try it! works for me. the errors i get (depends on the software, openMG, SS1.5, SS2) go something like this: 'failed to write to device/media' 'cannot find copywright information' 'sonic stage only supports 16bit 44kHz tracks, please use supported media' my work around corrects all these, and certainly takes less time than uninstalling and reinstalling sonys software (which i've done many times before). once you've got them to work they won't go wrong again too. i reckon its sonys software not being able to read the rights information so thinks everything is illegal and therefore refuses to work. so minimi, can you get any files to transfer? jelly

oh the age old problem with rubbish sonicstage. i've a net MDN10. got sonicstage 1.53 with it. that was rubbish. crashed windows with the blue screen of death all the time. then i moved to openMG jukebox. that wasn't too bad at least windows stayed stable. the problem was it refused to convert random files. all my mp3s are at 224kbits that i've made myself with CDDEX. i have a few downloaded at various bit rates. the 'failed to convert/record to device' message appeared randomly with any bit rate. some tracks always worked, the others never worked once they decided which way they were going they never changed. so i got realone then. that works fine but doesn't do SP mode recording which is annoying. i've now got sonicstage 2.0 which i must say is a lot nicer to use, less ambitious than the original but does what its meant to, sort of. Yep i've still got the problem of randomly not converting/recording files after importing. but at least it doesn't crash randomly when i try and record SP mode (for the car) just gives those error messages. so i guess thats better than spacking windows out. Anyway the point of this message is a small but annoying work around i've found. i dunno if it'll be useful to you lot or not. here it is: i've got a load of big mp3s 140mb each. openMG jukebox refused to import those, i presume because they were too big. so i searched t'internet for an mp3 splitter which i duely found. so i split these up into 5-10mb sections and then recorded to MD. like before several refused to be converted others were fine. so i had an idea of shaving the smallest amount off the beginning of the mp3s that don't work. typically about 3-10 frames of the mp3 which is probably about 1/10th of a second. i then reimport them to openMG and hey presto, they record fine in all modes. i then get emailed by sony to upgrade to sonic stage 2.0. so i do and the above work around still works. Or should i say sonys software still doesn't work. so i've got 6500 mp3 tracks. its gonna take me a very long time to sort out the 10% of tracks that won't work. But i'm now almost happy with my MD player, the N10 is a beautiful little machine. pity the software is so shite. anyway one quick question: say an LP2 file is 5mb that means the equivalent SP file will be about 8mb. so WHY does it take the first about 10secs to record across but the SP file will take about 60 seconds? odd anyway hope this helps someone dave