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  1. Hi When I transfer Albums from SonicStage I get Album Art on My Hi-MD...

    It looks pritty but what use has it got? :blink:

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    What did yuo do to make SS put the album art on folders automatically? I have to put it manually before transfering the music to the dh10p. :(

  2. Just hoping I could get a little nudge in one direction or another?

    Any help would be grand! I understand the 900 has more features, but the rh10 looks soooo nice. :blink:

    Both units are good IMO. If you want to use the new unit mainly for playback, the MZDH10p is on sale now for $230 aprox. It has camera and a nice color screen, but it is a downloader only, so no line in nor mic in.

    Also, if you care about mp3 play capability (I mean without converting it to atrac) then you should go for a second generation HIMD (like mzrh10, mzrh910, or mzdh10p). I must say that direct mp3 playback on 2nd generation players has a problem with treble so you have to adjust your equalization to play it (it sounds better this way but no perfect). If you don't care about playing mp3 without converting them to atrac, I use to had a mznh900. It was a very good recorder and player with the usual functions of himd recorders plus the jog dial.

    If you are going to use the unit mainly for recording (especially from mic), i would recommend you the mzrh1. It will be available on may or june this year. It has some very good functions for recording using mic input or line in.

  3. Re-Furbed must look and behave EXACTLY as the original Brand New ones complete with original Warranty (valid of course from date of purchase).

    I don't know if this is the case when you buy a refurbed unit, but when I received my refurbished mznh900 (as an exchange for my deffective one) from sony exhange center it only had half the original warranty, I mean it has only 6 months of warranty.

  4. Just a note on "refurb'ed" stuff.

    Usually it will be totally indestinguishable from the Original. Complete with original packaging, manuals etc etc.

    Don't confuse with "Used" or second hand model. These will have been re-built so they are "Factory" or "Show room" fresh.

    I got a second RH10 for around 95 GBP from Amazon UK. This is well over HALF the current price on these units and it seems fine by me. I can't tell ANY difference from it to the original. For me 2 X RH10 (re-furb'ed) is better than 1X @ more than the price I could get 2 of these units for.

    Caveat always being you buy from a reputable source.

    Cheers

    -K

    Totally second that. I receive a refurbished mznh900 from Sony because mine was having recording problems. I couldn't tell the difference between a new unit and the refurbished one. It was amazing how "new" the unit looked.

  5. Hola yopuz

    bienvenido a los foros. Yo también soy de Chile. También me di cuenta de la oferta de Ripley. Es el precio más barato que he visto para ese modelo incluso en U.S. Yo no he visto ningun reproductor refaccionado a la venta, pero hace un año tuve que mandar mi ex- Mzhn900 a U.S por la garantía. Me mandaron uno refaccionado en excelentes condiciones, igual a uno nuevo. Si te preguntas si es que los de Ripley son refaccionados... definitivamente no lo son. Además siempre las unidades refaccionadas traen un aviso en el reproductor que dice que son refaccionadas.

    PS: sorry for posting this in spanish, but I tought it would be easier for the poster to understand this since he's from Chile.

  6. Hello R.Sabel and welcome to the forums! nice first post I must say.

    I don't know if there's any "written rules" for this forum but here are some recomendations:

    1) careful with the language

    2) don't post things that are already posted by someone else

    3) always post in the correct section of the forums (I mean if you have a question about SonicStage, post it in the Software section)

    4) be kind to other people , since everybody here is kind and helpful to each other.

    I think that's all I can say. Enjoy the forums

  7. I've been musing around for a while on how to store music 99.99% "ripped" from CD's again.

    I started off with Hi-SP @ 256, then experimented with WAV, and ATRAC 3 lossless and have finally decided on ATRAC 3 Lossless (again).

    Whilst I know people are pretty dedicated to FLAC and some other lossless formats I've actually found the Atrac Lossless fine for storing on the computer.

    I'm aware of the dangers of using a "closed" proprietary format but in this case it's lossless and you CAN convert to WAV so you are not "locked in".

    What I find fine with it is that you can easily convert stuff to WAV if you want (no generation loss as you are going from Lossless===> Lossless, and then convert the WAV to any other format you want if you need to rather like extracting a Winzip file and then compressing it to a WINRAR files for example.

    Having a smaller library definitely makes it easier to store and process and as I don't have an IPOD or any MP3 player I'm not worried either in conversions.

    Computers are pretty fast these days so doing a large number of Batch Conversions (say from AAL ==> WAV won't take a huge amount of time, or even if it does you can do it say at night or whenever.

    If the MD system goes the way of the dodo I can always convert to WAV and then use whatever is the next system.

    I suspect that if (and when) SONY does come out with a really neat Solid State player / recorder that meets my requirements I'm sure ATRAC will still be around, and there's gossip around that the format might finally be opened up (LINUX --YIPEE).

    The only problem I see with ATRAC Lossless (and this is an SS restriction, not a compression problem) is that SS libraries can't span more than 1 physical disc. (Your own WAV files can be stored anywhere as they are just "Data" as far as the computer is concerned - but your SS library can still only reside on 1 physical Disk).

    Since I've now got a dedicated 300 GB external disk for this purpose I should be able to store something over 1200 CD's on it using ATRAC lossless. I actually have about 500 CD's currently so this Disk should provide me with more than enough space for the forseeable future.

    I like a lot of Classical music and as I've more or less got what I need I don't really buy many CD's any more and for Classical Music don't even THINK of "Music Download Stores" the quality even if you could find the tracks you are interested in would be just too hideous to even bear thinking about.

    The 352 ATRAC Lossless seems to me a good method of storing good (lossless) compression and if I need a WAV file doesn't take too long to create one either.

    I even convert my own WAV recordings to ATRAC3 Lossless so I've got a consistent format in the library.

    I rarely listen to music via a computer but if I do then you can play tracks directly.

    It would be nice if the RH1 could play Atrac lossless -- mind you I'm quite impressed with the (compressed) 352 kbs playback in any case.

    I think the best advice would be always ensure you have some method of getting back to an original WAV file. SS 3.4 is not so bad so ATRAC 3 lossless is not as useless as some posts suggest it might be.

    Flac and other lossless compressions are good but not if you are using SS.

    Cheers

    -K

    I'm not so sure but I remember a post about Atrac Lossless that said that if you convert a 256kbps lossless file to another birate like 352kbps, SS will convert the 256kbps file to 352kbps not the wav file that it's stored in your computer.

  8. Hello

    A friend of mine gave me a iTunes pre-paid music card for 15usd. I was wondering if it's possible to transfer the songs buyed in iTunes to SS and then to my Himd. Another thing that I would like to know is the quality of the available songs in iTunes. And a last question: Can I use the iTunes store if I'm outside U.S (I'm in Chile, South America) ? (Sorry to make a couple of iTunes related questions in here but ... it's a gift!)

    thank you all

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