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Thanks! Now I really want one.. AH

I would certainly buy a good HiMD deck. ..Just like my father did appr. 11 years ago with regular MD, actually. For playing and editing that might just cut it above SS on the PC. ..Though I must say: SS 3.4 has made life a lot easier nowadays!(thank you, Sony). Yeah a deck is on my wishlist. A car set..? Well I would want one, but that certainly would be a slim market for Sony, I guess. A good jack-in on every car set and an attachment for a HiMD walkman is probably a better option (with easy 'hands free' operation - preferably). A H

I contacted the 'Wildlife Sound Recording Society' and got an email address for a ready-made parabolic reflector. I will enquire & let you know. Salad bowl, mmm? greetings A H

"www.wildlife-sound.org (Amberwood reflector" Mmmmm...? They don't even show an email adress "For further enquiries please contact", it all looks a bit old fashioned (look at the dates of the demo recordings on their site!). Nevertheless, I might contact them, so thank you very much for the tip! An aluminium wok might do the trick just fine, I'm beginning to suspect.. Albin

Wok, huh? Time for some serious basteln, me think! thanks A H

Dear forum-contributors, I am a happy user of the Sony ECM-MS907 microphone for recording 'soundbites' on my MZ-NH700 HiMD-player. But for nature-recordings (birds, toads, you name it) getting close to the sound source is not always possible. An aimed mic would come in handy there! My question is: could any of you suggest a parabole-attachment to my mic to get more aimed recordings? Who makes those things? How to do it myself? greetings A H

Music - My jazz-collection on 1 Gb disk, incl. several Charles Mingus & Art Blakey CD's. :smile: (Hi-LP) Data - None gr. Albin

r2j, regarding your question, I'd suggest to read back this thread, since most answers seem to be there. :whatever: I'd consider this first: - Install SS vs. 2.1 or 2.2. Use the Sony-b(we)a®ckuptool to save your Library first! Save it on a place you will remember btw. - Convert your .omg-files to .oma-files, using the SonicStage File Conversion Tool. Then try again with Marc's HiMDrenderer. good luck AH

:ohmy: :wacky: :sleep:

emptyzero wrote on the 17th of Otober: I laughed reading that :grin: - it reminds me that reading the manual took 2 days in a car (driving from Amsterdam towards Slovenia) and then some morning-coffees, before I actually dared to do make my own microphone-recording. From then on, it worked like a dream. ..Except for the moment that the .omg-nightmare really dawned upon me , when I was back behind the computer (the rest of that is somewhere among these discussion-threads). I too think that the menu-button-function is somewhat cryptic - having to hold that tiny button for 5 sec's every time.. Does it bother you as well that the MD-player (NH-700) makes this soft whirring noice, just seconds after you start recording (starting from rec+pause) ? In silent surroundings the mic is sensitive enough to pick it up. Keeping the MD-player in my pocket and controlling it from a remote would indeed come in handy! cheers AH

...And I thought those questions would be easy! :wacky: ...En ik dacht dat die vragen makkelijk zouden zijn! We zullen zien. (We 'll see) AH

dex Otaku wrote: :grin: I echo those warm feelings. This internet'community' made it possible to use my HiMD player the way I wanted to - where Sony almost lost another customer (Gosh, I do get irritated when I think of how they are supporting there clients!). I can now use my own mic-recordings, combine them with my photography and share them with friends through email. But I was close to Valder state-of-mind concerning HiMD! Very close. And back-on-thread, I had no serious SS crashes yet, but earlier I did report about a CD-player getting stuck using SS. And even the new CD-player in my laptop sometimes gives up using SS 2.X or SimpleBurner. :ohmy: Not reassuring. Albin

:wacky: You don't want to hear this - but (nice - for a change!) my download of SS 2.2 went fine. Just some speculation: Were all other applications closed when downloading? Is there some firewall-setting that might be set to 'disabled', while installing SS ? Find another download-site to get SS 2.2 from? good luck Albin

Just some thoughts... :wacky: How can Sony expect the average user to know all this???? I think it is just too much to ask from someone in the plug-and-play age (can somebody please remind me when that beautiful era started?). The original poster (PaulV) of this thread made a backup! He copied his music and recordings to a separate disk. That should be sane enough for 'an average user'. What if we send all our "you have invalid rights management information" files to Sony each time a HDD crash or likewise occurs. A flood of .omg's and .oma's with the serious request: "Please Sony, PLEASE, restore my files - make them readable. Just once, just this time!". A signal, from dedicated users that want to buy and support the product. Or might be intelligent enough to try the next best thing (probably not a Sony product). AH

:grin: Wow! You people just made my day! Tears in my eyes - I have a WAV-file of my own recordings [sniff It worked! :love: Thank you so much, Albin

Dear Marc, [This is a fine mess you got yourself into... - answering this truckload of more-or-less stupid questions! :wink: ] :grin: I installed SS 2.2 to replace 2.0 on my laptop. My library seems saved - .omg-recordings can be played. But now, HiMDrenderer gives me the ERROR: "Failed to connect source filter (omg_src) to dest filter (omg transform)" :wacky: Could you clarify that for me? I have my .omg-files on a seperate folder on the D: disk-partition. Thanks & regards Albin

xispe: I'll give it a few more weeks. But Sony-Netherlands cannot offer me great help. They say official company-policy is: no news on a wav-converter, no SS2.1 or 2.2 updates on the Dutch site yet, no change in the blocking of file-exchange between computers... Marc: OK, I will install 2.1 (I do not have 2.2. yet) on my laptop. But I am anxious to lose the ability of listening my recordings there as wel (the install causing more 'invalid rights'..)! Thanks Albin

Wow! That point was never made clear to me so eehhh... clearly! I am really shocked about the consequences of this. But thanks for your reply. Albin

In the similar threads this discussion has been going on, but very briefly! http://forums.minidisc.org/viewtopic.php?t...ghts+management & http://forums.minidisc.org/viewtopic.php?t...ghts+management But in short, the answers seem to come down to "try again - do another upload". I am experiencing the same problem with my own recorded .omg files. Much to my distress.. On the laptop to which they were downloaded from my NH700, they play well on SonicStage 2.0 (from the CD packaged with the player/recorder). :cool: Of course I made a backup of all the files, especially because apparently SS is known to thrash files on the MD when uploading. On the laptop, .omg files play well from different sources (unpacked zip-file, USB memory-stick and from CD-ROM). But on the second computer on which I installed the same SS2.0, I get this message "There is invalid rights management information in the OpenMG content." Same problem when SS2.1 was installed. Now I am afraid to install a new SS version on my laptop...! I can assure you that I am very unhappy with how things are going. The WAV-converter that Marc from this MD-community developed is not functioning yet on any of both computers - so no general music format (wav) for me yet, to backup my recordings! And as it seems now, even copying the .omg-files to CD does no good, because I cannot play them on another computer.. Can someone please give me some additional suggestions here !? Other than just returning the player to the shop... regards Albin

I am experiencing the same problem with my own recorded .omg files. Much to my distress.. I am starting a new thread under the HI-MD topics - because my problem occurs on a HI-MD unit. http://forums.minidisc.org/viewtopic.php?p=31800#31800 Can someone please give me some additional suggestions there !? regards Albin

The NH700 does that job just fine! No complaints about recording quality at all! A good microphone + a good wav-converter should do the job. good luck AH

Hi, As an new HI-MD user I am rather worried about 2 things: 1) The much spoken-of inability to translate my .omg recordings to something more accessable, like .wav. Really dissappointed by that - but who is not? 2) The fact that my laptop's CD-player is broken , apparently by the use of SonicStage software!!! I used a music-CD as music-source and 'recorded' the tracks on it using SS. The software kept asking for letting it 'check the CD-drive for its recording capacity' (or something). When I finally gave in (after having clicked away the pop-up repeatedly), a whistling-noise came from the CD-drive. It kept recording, but gave errors more often. Now it does nothing at all, not even play a CD or CD-ROM. Distress!!!! Any likewise experiences?? greetings, Albin