Syrius

You should be able to edit from within Sonicstage once you upload. I am very puzzled as of why it will not let you edit from within the unit. Which format are the tracks recorded in? SP? Hi-Sp? PCM? I don't think you can edit the tracks on the disc using SS. You must upload first and edit the uploaded files. Good luck.

Sounds good. I'm about to head for work. Will contact you through the day. Thanks!

Jog wheel? On the RH1? What Jog wheel?

Jesus. This is going to turn ugly. You have my sympathy, Blue Raja.

I'll post pics later. I managed to get yet another NH900 and I plan on keeping the RH1. So I am selling my mostly mint, good condition, fully working and boxed silver unit. Box. Gumstick battery, AA battery case, backlit remote. Wonky Headphones. Box. Manual. Optical Cable. Inserts. USB cable. It's complete. I'll throw in some discs, will let you know when I post picture. Unit is in very good condition, has only some minor hairline scratches that are only visible if you actively look for them. 175 plus shipping will make it yours. I might ship via UPS ground which is cheap and insured. Check my feedback on the corresponding thread and see I am a trustworthy forum member. Let me know. Will take paypal and Money Order. AU, EUR, CAN buyers welcome! EDIT: Here it is. Sorry for the dark picture. It's the brightest it would get. The minor scratches are denoted by the yellow ovals, however, the mark on the right side of the one on the display is not a scuff, but just some fingerprint smudge that I've cleaned after taking the picture. Comes with five, that's right, FIVE 1GB Hi-MDs I have no use for. Take it off my hands. It's sitting here neglected and unloved. Give it a good home. The AC adapter is for US voltage, 120 V. Hurry up before I send it to Ebay.

Un-DRM means removing the copy protection of an imported track in SonicStage, especially if it was uploaded from HI-MD or converted to ATRAC/OMA. (right click the file/convert format to the same bitrate it currenty is at/uncheck copy protection option) Maybe the system restore messed up Sonic Stage's DRM folder. In any case, what is the format your files are in? OMA? Or something else?

Did you do a system restore, backup, migration or something? Did you UN-DRM your files? Which format are they in?

I was going to ask about that, Avrin. Thanks. Guess I'll stick to the blue ones.

That's what I paid for my RH1 over here! Jesus Christ, indeed.

Griffin. If this is sold, please still make sure to notate it so. (I have one to sell, and don't want to cause unwanted competition between us both)

Due to the way Hi-MD works, it's not possible to make prerecorded ones. The fact that a Hi-MD can be read after recording it, depends of the format's rewritable capabilities, ironically.

One word of warning, though: Those 1st-gen HI-MDs are very prone to errors, rendering them almost unusable. I have had 3 of those discs, and all of them at some point went kaput giving me CRC errors and the like, freezing my Hi-MD units and the computer upon upload or download. Stick to the blue Hi-MDs if you don't want to risk losing your recordings or data.

Not me. I am sticking to HI-MD from now on. I will keep my old SP recordings even after I have uploaded them using the RH1, and the old SP-only units since I can upload their recordings with the RH1 again, but I don't use them to listen anything on them anymore.

Atrac is still used on the PSP by most movies and games, IIRC. It's the OMA/OMG (OMG, lulz. No wonder why Sony named it like that) encryption what plagues us.

There we go. That may do the trick.

Suing over what? A codec that no one uses and that Sony is not making money from? Yeah, I know about the DMCA. But couldn't like his account get "hacked" since he forgot to turn on his firewall by "accident" and then the work "leaked without his knowledge" over bit-torrent?

Minidisc will die when every single little unit stops working. If I can still record and upload using my Nh900 or RH1, the format is still alive for me.

It's all right, my reply was a joke. Hence the bomb smiley. Anyway, please try converting those Mp3s to constant bit rate Mp3, not wav or OMA. Can check the file specs? Again, if they are VBR, or have a different sampling rate, SonicStage may choke on them.

Uhmm.. try another computer? It sounds stupid, but when it comes to SonicStage, some computers are plain lemons. (My laptop will slow to a crawl when transferring old MD tracks with the RH1, but the desktop will break the sound barrier, same unit, same cable, same disc, same track.)

Convert those Mp3 to CBR ones, then import those in SS.

No. You MUST use SonicStage. Drag and drop only works when it comes to storage. Perhaps the Mp3s are not compliant. (Must be Mpeg 1, layer 3, sampling frequency of 32, 44.1, or 48 khz) Try converting the files to constant bitrate with those settings. Blasphemy!

I could tell you something involving HI-MD and one of those USB optical out for your computer, but it would get me banned from the forum.

Well, guess what. The humble desktop outdid the newer, higher-spec laptop. Probably the dual cores mess up something, or it's not powerful enough, or something. But my 1.8 Ghz desktop outperformed the 2.2 Ghz laptop... at a blazing 6X upload speed. A six-minute track uploaded in 58 seconds, from the moment I hit the transfer button (so if we include the time the unit takes to spin the disc up and seek the right track, it's a bit faster than 6X) so I might end up keeping this. 6X speed... wow. Wow-bow-wow-wow.

Thanks for the tip. I've been in a trance/techno mood as of late.

Good thinking. I'll try in my old Athlon desktop. I'll let you all know tomorrow. EDIT: I tested again on my laptop with only Firefox and Sonic Stage open. No firewall, no antivirus. No other programs running. 7 full minutes to upload a 6:30 track. Shameful. I'll try on my desktop this time. After I'm done uploading my last batch of SP-encoded tracks, I am sticking to HI-SP and PCM for the rest of my life.