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thx for this post dude. I'm like 90% fixed now for the player... 1 big problem still... when i was picking at the glue to get the record arm off i accidently "slid" the entire arm down a bit... then after i put it together it won't record. I opened it back up and "slid" the arm as far to the middle as possible... and it now records 90% perfectly. the first 2 tracks don't record correctly (showing 0:00 play time) but everything after that records and plays perfectly. How do i pull myself completely out of this hole and finally stamp my poor mz-n1 as resurrected? Edit: Just wanted to add that putting in my pre recorded mds (b4 my md had the error) I was able to successfully play the first track of the disc so it looks like it's a recording issue. Have you guys ever listened thru your headphones to the player while ur loading songs to it thru the pc? I can hear wierd buzzing and electrical noises. I dunno if that's normal Edit2: crap... i dont' know what i did now... but i made thigns worse and it keeps going blank disc

and the above standalone mp3 converter is pretty much using sonic stage since it won't run w/o a ss2.2 install if only someone can make a 3rd party converter haha

and i tried clearing the output folders of any files that were created from past extractions... didn't help at all either... i'm not sure what's up w/ this haha comp runs smooth when i first start converting... then it hits 10% and pretty much freezes. it doesn't seem to be doing it for only vbr mp3s anymore either... i downloaded a few new albums which were cbr and it would choke as well during conversion

hrm... this is interesting cuz now sonic stage seems like it's choking on any form of mp3 conversion.... System specs: Athlon 2500+ Soltek sl75frnl 1024 333ddram 120gig hd ati radeon 9700 pro audigy 2 platinum this is running under a fresh install of windows w/ sp2 and the latest drivers the only other programs i have installed on the comp were panda antivirus which runs in the background. hard drive is defragged, i run ccleaner to get rid of junk files, scanned system w/ panda, trojan hunter, and spybot sd and nothing came up... notes on my install i installed ss2.2 on a separate partition from my windows partition (e:) and my settings for sonic stage has all the output folders pointed to my junk partition (f:) to reduce fragmenting up my windows and apps partition i'll probably try uninstalling ss2.2 and reinstalling it tomorrow although i don't think that would fix the prob... syrius: thanks for the info on music match but i dont' really have a prob w/ converting to wav.. i usually use m32usb or whatever that's called (i used to own an mzn1 b4 the wire broke) and create images then directly extract the atrac 3 from the cd album so i can use the cddb and not have to rename the files (i'm lazy ) but if anyone has had similar problems and fixed it... let me know... i don't know if i should contact sony or anything. I'm hopin they release that mp3 support that was rumored to happen sooner or later

thx for the antivirus advice... i did the housecall scan and it reported no viruses, i also have spyware s&d, panda antivirus, and trojan hunter installed and all the prog verified that my comp is "clean" plus this is a fairly fresh install of windows i did 4 days ago and there isn't much garbage and stuff installed yet either :

hrm it crashes just like sonicstage anyone else have this prob before?

thanks a lot... looking for the decoder now

i'm not quite sure which forum to post this in since the software is used by both netmd and himd users... but i have a problem when converting some mp3 files it seems to hang and crash the system. other mp3 files work fine and the only workaround to converting the "bad" mp3 files i could use is to convert the file to wav. then converting from wav to ogm. anyone else encountered this b4? the mp3s would play fine on any media player software.