ZeusRex

Ok, I just received a reply from the author, and it seems his program only works with Simple Burner 1.x, because of the silly way SB 2.0 saves CDDB information. To add insult to Sony's ridiculous software, Simple Burner and SonicStage don't share the same local CDDB database, and Simple Burner saves its data in a temp file that gets erased by most hard drive cleaners. Yikes. Does anyone know where to find a copy of Simple Burner 1.x?

Check out the Nero virtual CD recording method using MD Simple Burner. It avoids the check-in check-out nonsense of SonicStage. I'm not sure where it is at in the forum, but search for Nero and Dino.

OK, maybe I'm thinking too much, but has anyone tried disassembling a MD, drilling out the centre to the same hole size as a CD, and then plunking the disc into a CD Rom player? Is there any chance that the CD Rom player would be able to read the information? :wacky:

I wasn't sure where to post this, but here's what I found after lots of searching: http://cdtext.galleytech.com/MANAGER.HTM This free program called CD-Text Manager reads CD text information and saves it for use by SonicStage and Simple Burner. Or it should! I can't quite get it to work with Simple Burner, so I'm trying to contact to the author. If I can get the program to work, here's what should happen: 1. Make a compilation of MP3 files that have ID3 tags. 2. Create a virtual audio CD using Nero Burning software and Dino's posted method...and check the option for saving CD Text to the virtual CD. 3. Mount the virtual drive, and open the CD-Text Manager program. This reads the song name and artist info from the virtual CD and saves it to the hard drive. 4. Open MD Simple Burner and select the virtual CD on the hard drive. It should find the CD text info on the hard drive and fill in the song labels. 5. Transfer the songs to the MD player with the labels. It should make MP3 transfer with labels fairly easy, but step 4 is not working for me. Simple Burner is not finding the info on my hard drive and looking vainly on CDDB. Has anyone else tried this program with success? I'm using Win2000 SP4, MD Simple Burner 2.0. Thanks!

Thanks for the quick reply. After going for a run and thinking about it, I realized that USB playback would have been too large a loophole for Sony to let happen. The possibility of Hi-Md units allowing it could open the doors for digital transfer, however.

Hmmm....I'm new to this all but I have used Total Recorder in the past to capture streaming web broadcasts with great results. But, this is my problem: I've got my N510 connected to my computer via USB, a MD of music in, and SonicStage open. The Transfer screen shows the track names and info, and clicking play on one of tracks starts playback, but only on my MD player. Should I be able to hear the music on the computer? The help file of SonicStage isn't exactly clear. Wow, I agree that if it would play back on the computer via USB, the sound could be captured by Total Recorder and we've have great transfer quality.