slickgino

Thanks for the reply. I have the "Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec". When I go to the about option for the codec, it tells me I have MP3 version 1.9 (Build 305). Which codec are you using? I want to try the exact same one. Thanks again.

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They can't help me because they don't even know why I am getting the problem. Can anybody help me out? Please? :'-( It's a software issue, and I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling about 6 times, and the conversion tool with no success.

Okay they got back to me already and said I had to contact Sony Support instead. I did a chat with a live representative and he could not help me out even after half an hour and told me to call their support number. I have a feeling this will take a while.

I'm having problems, but don't see that update in Add/Remove programs. Anybody know if that update is included in Windows' XP SP2 update?

I found the problem, but have no idea how to solve it. No matter what I use to convert -- SonicStage or Sony MP3 Conversion Tool -- I will be told that conversion was successful, but the OMA filesize ends up being 4,096 bytes! In other words, 0MB's. I tried this with a couple of MP3's. So it's definitely a software conversion problem. I already tried uninstalling all OpenMG software and SonicStage. Any ideas? EDIT: I just sent email to Sony Connect customer support. Hopefully they'll know something.

Okay. I tried MusicMatch Jukebox and converted a 192kbps MP3 to 128kbps. I still have the same problem. This is unbelievable. I went out thinking there's maybe something wrong with my player so I bought another MZ-NH600D to test out, and the same problem. Now I have two players that won't take MP3's. :'-( x 10000 Maybe there's a problem with SonicStooge. Is there anyway that I can transfer the tracks without SonicStooge? I can convert to oma using the Sony MP3 Conversion Tool and then transfer the files myself.

I'll try this out as you and mutant1345 suggested. Thanks for naming a program, because a lot of the ones I have found are not freeware. If what you mean is this, I tried it: - using the Sony MP3 Conversion Tool - right clicking a file in SonicStage, selecting convert format and convert a file to whatever format Everything converts nicely, and transfers to my player, but when I try to play the file, it doesn't play. Thanks for the suggestions:)

Never knew that. However, almost all of my MP3's are 128kbp, or 192kbps. Okay I will try that and post an update. I'll try that too. Thanks a lot! :-) EDIT: I uninstalled SonicStage (manually removed: registry entires, openmg from add/remove programs, all sony directories) and I still have the same problem :-( That took a while to do too.

Is there anyway to manipulate the MP3 format to make my player happy?

Thanks for the welcome :-) I am using SonicStage 2.2. I have tried several different MP3's and they all give me the same problem. Maybe I'll try the MP3 to Atrac converter if I can find it. Thanks. EDIT: Just tried the Sony MP3 conversion tool, and when I load and transfer the files with SonicStage, it says the files cannot be transferred. It's amazing, because I have over a 1000 MP3's and I have tried over a hundred different ones, from different sources, different bitrates and everything.

Hi all, When I convert an MP3 to Atrac format and transfer the Atrac file using SonicStage to my Hi-MD player (MZ-NH600D), everything *seems* to go fine. But when the player will try to play the file, well, it won't play. The player shows that it is trying to read the file, but after about 10 seconds, it stops trying. I don't have this problem if I convert an MP3 to WAV first using a third party program and then convert to Atrac, transfer using SonicStage and play it. However, converting to WAV makes the process much longer from my experiences and is a hassle. First convert to WAV which takes ample time. Then convert the WAV file to Atrac3Plus, which takes much, much, much longer than converting an MP3 to Atrac3Plus. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!