crichton007

It's not tough to see why the MD is going away. The software to upload digital files onto the player is difficult to use and hasn't gotten much better despite stated efforts to correct this. The players still only support ATRAC format (the transcoding has gotten faster though). It seems Sony has always been just behind with the MD until recently. They were a less expensive alternative to other digital music players when you compared the cost to expand storage but the transcoding was slow and difficult. Then as players started catching up in capacity and ease of use instead of expanding to something substantial the Hi-MD came out which only holds 1 GB. The way I see it the only thing that could possibly save the MD is to increase the capacity to 20 GB or greater, support MP3s as well as whatever other music formats (WMA would be a good addition) and the software to upload music needs to get significantly easier to use. I don't like to think this but I don't see any of these three things happening and thus the MD will die. How long has it been anyway? I first saw these things my senior year in HS...what...14 years ago? -D

I didn't check there but I uninstalled, deleted all directories related to the application (3 different places), rebooted and cleaned the registry. What I did just now try was a system restore to the point before I installed all of Microsoft's critical updates and voila, my Sony Apps work again. The frustrating part was the lack of support from everyone I talked to with Sony's support staff. -D

I ran the windows update on Tuesday and now none of my Sony stuff works. On my home PC I still use OpenMG Jukebox 2.2 and SonicStage 1.5 because I prefer to use Real Player for transferring songs. With these applications they crash when I try to convert and copy a song onto my Mini Disc player. I have a test PC at work that I have SonicStage 2.2 installed on and that program fails to finish launching before it crashes. The only common thread that I can see between my home work and test PCs are the windows updates. Does anyone know anything about this? The Sony guy kept insisting that I uninstall and reinstall and I've done that. After an hour of uninstalling and reinstalling with all the latches it is an hour before I return to where I began. -D