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Ah, once again I spoke too soon. After doing the involved de-install/re-install of ss3.4 and some transfering, I have discovered that it has improved, but still not fixed. Previously I was unable to transfer more than 1 album at a time without it crashing. Now I can do 3 but any more than that and kablooey. Tried all kinds of albums, (various artists, long track names, etc) and no matter what, past 3 and it crashes. Does anyone have the 3.2 installer, cause I would really like to scrap 3.3/3.4 since I could transfer a whole HiMD at one time with 3.2. I'm sure there are others who are in the same boat, so let us know. thanks, Sean

OK, so I followed the uninstall instructions for SS here: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=8071 and reinstalled ss3.4 and multiple transfers seem to work just fine now. So I would recommend checking out the thread above. One important note about that is the backing-up of your library. Do it because despite the fact that uninstalling SS leaves your library on disk, you can't just reinstall and have it work. Everything was there but a) everything was rearranged and F'ed up and more importantly SS thought I was trying to pirate stuff and locked everything so I couldn't access it. So, you have to back it up and then restore it using the tool in SS before you uninstall. Also, I freaked because after reinstalling I suddenly had 20G less room on my drive than before. After pulling my hair out for half an hour I realized the problem. When I first installed SS I pointed it to music in My Documents>My Music so that I could access it thru SS. When you do the SS backup it also backs up that stuff. The trick is that when it restored my library it didn't copy the My Music files back to My Music, it created NEW copies in the SS library folder. So it duplicated 20G of music. I figured out what albums were from My Music and deleted them from the library AND the disk. Scary at first, but it just deletes the copies it made upon restore and not the originals in My Music. Then I did an import, searched My Music and it relinked to the songs without copying them. Now it's time for a beer.

Just an update... just installed SS 3.4, thinking, "A-ha, Sony realized SS 3.3 was a clinker so finally fixed it with 3.4!". Wrong. 3.4 has the exact same problem as 3.3. No multiple transfers without a crash. Sean

OK, I contacted Sony and they said to uninstall and re-install. Yeah right. But it actually worked! ... For one whole transfer. I was able to transfer 3 albums all at one time. So far so good. Tried 8 at one time and it locked up again. Then tried doing 2 and it still locked up. So it's fixed! All we need to do is uninstall/reinstall SS3.3 everytime we want to transfer multiple albums! Easy, streamlined and user-friendly! Yay! Also, the icing-on-top is that Sony also told me that I could no longer download 3.2 but I could BUY it from them for only $12, double-yay! It's also been mentioned that it seems to be the # of tracks not albums that is the problem but I can't get it to crash consistently. For a while it seemed like 70 tracks was the magic number 'cause at 80 it kept crashing and then on the third try with 80 it worked. Who knows. Bah!

Ah ha! I have the same problem. I have had no problems with previous versions of SS but I just updated to 3.3 and every time I try to transfer multiple albums at one time it freezes. The disc keeps spinning, but the inidcator on the unit is stationary. Also 0% in SS transfer window just keeps blinking. As an experiment, I transfered a bunch of stuff 1 album at a time fine. Then put a brand-new blank disc in and selected multiple albums to transfer. SS burnt the folder names to the new disc, tallied up the amount of songs it was transfering and then started the 0% progress. The really weird thing is that the song it said it was trying to transfer was the LAST song of the previous bunch of transfers that were on another disc! If you hit stop, it says that it's stopping transfer and does absolutely nothing. I don't think this is a 'another program open' issue because THE only thing I changed was installing SS3.3. And yes, if you do 1 album at a time it works. Also, just noticed that when I tried to rearrange folders on the MD thru SS it didn't freeze, but it also didn't change anything. Any thoughts? Using: Win XP SP2 SS 3.3 NH600 & NH900 Sean

I have a MZ-NH900 which I have been very happy with, but have been looking at the RH10 for the OLED screen. Has anyone compared how the two sound? I know technically it's a 'step down' with the amp on the RH10 but how much of a difference does it make? Oh yeah... and what exactly is the difference between the HD and regular digital amp anyway? Thanks, Sean

I would like to get some dust plugs for the mic and optical jacks on my NH900. It's funny that they went to the effort of putting one on the USB but not on anything else. Anyone know where to get some? I've checked B&H, Audiocubes, etc. with no luck. Sean