Taka

My regular password does not work there, I'll try to contact a mod. Thanks.

No, because I can not download it. I can't login there.

All of a sudden the errormessage "Can not locate the files required to open the database. Exiting SonicStage" appears when I start SonicStage. I did not understand, because last time it worked fine, and nothing that I know of has changed. But something must have been changed of course, although I don't know what. Anyway, it made me a bit angry, especially after I was pushed to buying music online - which I don't want to do, I want to record stuff with my minidisk, and nothing else. Ok, so I went to download the latest version of SonicStage. A new installation would surely fix the problem I thought. That was an adventure in itself. It seems that Sony thinks you need Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher just to download a file. I guess they never heard of other browsers. No, I understand, Sony supposes that everyone who is using a MiniDisk will use it to buy online music. But not me. I simply wanted a small device to make digital recordings with a microphone. Apparently that possibility never occurred to Sony. But ok, after starting up another browser and visiting a page where I could download music (which I did not want to do - did I tell you that already?), there was a link where I could download an installer for SonicStage. Did it, installed it, rebooted as requested. And what happens? Right: "Can not locate the files required to open the database. Exiting SonicStage" I found another thread about the issue (http://forums.minidisc.org/lofiversion/index.php/t14678.html), no answer though, just that the person found another file to download. That is however of no use, because it is a program to transfer MP3 to a minidisk. What I need is a program to get the stuff I recorded from the minidisk to HD, so I can convert it to WAV and edit it. What is the problem? And more importantly: how can I solve it? - Win98SE - SonicStage (after latest install) version 3.4 - MD: MZ-NH700

I have reformatted the disc from the menu in the player, and now it seems to work as it should. Any clue as to what went wrong? How can one corrupt a disc in such a way that it refuses to function? Now that I think about it. I might have interrupted the proces of writing to file after the first recording. It seemed to be taking a lot of time, and i needed to start recording the next song. Could that have corrupted the whole disc, not just the file? Anyway this problem seems solved, thanks. Now for the next problems - I'll start another thread about those.

I already found and installed it. I get "ACCESS ERROR" on the display of the MD-player all the time. Even after running Windows checkdisc. Windows reported to have found errors and fixed them. But I still get an error when working from Window explorer, and trying to copy some of the files there. I can write a file, and then read it again, but I can't copy at least some of the files currently present on the disc. the files i can see are: Hi-md.ind a directory named "Hmdhifi" with these files: _0010012.hma _mdhifi.hma 00010012.htm atdata02.hma mclist01.hma mclist02.hma trkidx01.hma trkidx02.hma Using SonicStage: On "transfer" the first time it starts transferring untill 65%, and then meets an error and stops transferring. After that nothing has been transferred. After that SonicStage does not see any recordings anymore. "Initialize" fails. What should I do? Format the disc from Windows and then try "initialize"? Or is that something to never do.

Just to add something: I know why i was not able to find the latest SonicStage version after going to the indicated page at http://musicstore.connect.com/mb_us/IESignup.flow 1. It's a confusing page. It says "download Connect Player", while i was looking for "SonicStage". 2. The download does not work in Firefox (or rather: does not work with a popup blocker). When do people learn that popups are passé? And why does the the MP3-library program not ask me where i want it installed?? It just installs on C:\Program Files That is NOT where i want my programs to be installed. When does the annoyance ever stop?

I bought the MZ-NH700 to be able to record my band while practizing. I don't want to use it to download music or copy my music CD's or whatever. Now the device I bought came with a 1GB minidisc, which i can't seem to get working properly. * I tried to record some stuff. After the first time it started to give an REC ERROR every time i recorded something new. * It recorded something apperently, because there's 3 MB file on the disc which i can see in Windows explorer after connection it through USB. Also I once succeeded in playing it in SonicStage (I have version 2.1), but I can not repeat it. * I tried transferring that recording in SonicStage to apperently my HD. But that did not work, although there was no error. Anyway, it was just testing, and i don't care very much if the recording is lost. So I tried to use SonicStage to "initialize" the disk. On several tries several things happened: - first try was not succesfull, i got an error message from the program saying - i don't recall the exact wording - that it was unable to initliaze the disc. - second time it asked me if i wanted to transfer the recording first, and i said "yes". It did some things (but no sign of a transferred file). Then it returned to the "initialize" option screen and froze. - Since then the whole program crashes whenever i start it. At startup, the MD-player starts spinning, displays "ACCESS" and then "ACCESS ERROR", and then the program just crashes. Ok i was not particularly happy with my new device in the first place, because * At first it could not transfer recording from older (non Hi-MD) minidiscs through USB - and that was an important thing to me. * Then while browsing i found out that a lot of Sony sites force you to use Internet Explorer, and do not accept another browser. For no obvious reason. * Sites do not have a contact email address to send questions to. It's true that i found some chat-support, where a very polite "Bob" was trying to explain things, but then again, he could as well have been a bot, his answers were very standard and emotionless. And it did not help me. * I read about a newer version of SonicStage (version 2.3), and wanted to download it. Places i get are Internet Explorer-only and meant to download music. And as said I don't want to download any music. Sony seems to be a lot worse then Microsoft in being unreachable and just doing everything to make you pay, but not offering any service. Yes, it makes me angry. Anyway: can anyone give me a clue on solving the issiues mentioned: 1. I want to be able to record stuff from a microphone. Why does everything seem to work untill the "REC ERROR". Is my disc corrupt? 2. I want to be able to "initialize" the disc (if nothing else). I guess that it is something like formatting. Why doesn't that work? 3. I want to download the latest version of SonicStage without doing any payments for music (because i don't want to download music) 4. I want to spit in the face of Sony for being so very consumer-unfriendly and apparently only being busy with making people pay. Taka