MAVickers

Howdy. Using AudioActive Production Studio Pro, a crusty but solid MP3 converter, and usually am converting to 320 or 256 kbs. Yep, I realize I'm going through 2/3 generations of lossy compression. To be honest, I don't have golden ears so I really can't tell the difference unless the MP3 I'm starting with is 192 kbs or below. Most of my listening is either on my personal computer at home using cheap, small speakers, in my vehicle, or at work on cheap headphones. The times are rare that I get to use my decent earbuds. Since I do a majority of listening at home on my computer using MM Jukebox I need my tunes in MP3 format anyhow.

Thanks for the reply. Like I said, I do two albums using the exact same process but for whatever reason, one throws the error, the other does not. I'm still at a lost at how absolutely asinine Sony's software. Where else do you find a rather large group of consumers having to work around the software so much?

Guh. Now that HiMD allows me to upload, I've started converting some of my old record collection to MP3 using my MZ-NHF800 as the recording device from the record player, uploading to the PC. I record two albums, and upload them both (a couple crusty Mylon Lefevre albums if you care!). I then edit both (track breaking, compression, etc), save out to .wav, and then compress to MP3 (which is what I convert everything in my library to). All tracks up to this point sound just fine. After tagging, I import both albums into SS 2.3, select both for transfer, and then hit the transfer button. The first album transfers just fine, the second throws the following error: "Transfer rights for this track do not allow transfers to devices/media." This also occasionally happens with MP3's I've downloaded or ripped from CD, and it happens to every track in the album, not just to a track here and there. Anybody have a quick fix other than recording an ISO image and re-ripping through SS? This is beyond stupid. SONY FIX YOUR SOFTWARE.

Check this article out: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/21/sony/index.php Notable: Not sure how reliable this outfit is in its reporting...

I just got my unit, so I haven't tried Hi-MD Renderer yet. I'm not sure there's any value added in my case? Every time I record I have to make edits to the wav file (trim the ends, nomalize/compress, etc) and I'm not sure Renderer is going to make any part of the process faster? Michael

It sounds like this person is trying to record using line in/out methods in real time, actually. Can you hear the tracks with headphones plugged into the unit? Michael

Thanks for looking out for my ears Most of my listening is done in the car or at work with cheap headphones on. I don't have the greatest ears (I think I have a slight case of tinnitus) either. I guess it's more important to pack more tunes on a disc than to have higher quality audio. Besides, this bug has been around for eons, and seems to occur more frequently on my mp3s that are encoded at a higher bitrate (256kbps and up). Michael

I don't know about anybody else here, but even with SS v2.3 I still regularly run across .mp3's that convert into silence when using ATRAC3 @ 132kbps. That is extremely annoying and means I have to go through the whole .mp3 -> Nero Image -> re-rip in SS process. The newest version of Simple Burner does not seem to support the regular ATRAC3 modes. I have not run into that problem with Hi-SP. If anything, it would be nice to see a Hi-MD @ 128kbps so the .mp3 conversion process runs correctly. Michael

I record sermons for my church and then convert to .mp3 and post to the church's website. The sermons are typically 40 - 45 minutes long. I just purchased a NHF800 and used it for the first time this past weekend for recording the sermon. The recording was somewhere in the area of 45 minutes and recording in Hi-SP mode. Upload took about 4 - 5 minutes, then conversion to .wav took another 2 - 3 minutes (using Sony's software). Of course, I then had to do edits and convert to .mp3, but that doesn't look to be part of your process. I would guess that you shouldn't have a problem getting a recording to CD within an hour. My computer is a P4 2.5GHz, BTW. 512MB RAM, 5400 RPM drive. Michael