jgabor

"To add to my comment. It will be very difficult to recover the audio data from a .HMA file if the tracks were recorded (ie: not downloaded via SonicStage). This is because the encryption keys that are on your PC are different to the ones the HIMD device used. So even if you did stick the .HMA data into a OMA file, it wont play or convert because the sony directshow drivers wont recognize the DRM keys from the .HMA file." Just a thought: ksandbergfl found out that the key should be in the TRKIDXxx.HMA file. Do you think this works? Or what about doing it with the disk back up (disk image per drag and drop) and copying the key in a dummy *.hma file on the HIMD, replacing also the assumed key in the TRKIDXxx.HMA? Thanks Kind regards, J.

So will this be impossible or would it be possible to find out if i have some of the recordings already converted into oma but not the most important one. But all source from one HIMD. And why did ksandbergfl write this? Thanks in advance J.

Does really no one know if this method i mentioned in my 1st post does work ????????????????????????????? Regards, Jarek

Probably i have to emphasise that i only quoted a post of "ksandbergfl" (the stuff in my first post starting with #1). But there MUST be a possibility to extract the atracdata from the .hma file??!??!?!?!

Unfortunately the computer was battery powered. Let's wait and see. My quotation above was from the user "ksandbergfl". Thank in advance! jgabor

In some posts there is a description that there should be a method to extract the music from the big atdata##.hma file on the HIMD (please see below). I have a really big problem with my HI-MD and according to your posts it seems that there exists a chance for a solution. 1st of all, my problem: • I recorded 3 hours of music on the MD per microphone. These are divided in ca. 38 pieces whereby the last piece of the most important is and is ca. for 1.5 hours. • Before the transfer on my computer via sonicstage I have connected the MD recorder per USB to the PC and copied all .hma files (copy paste inc atdataxx.hma) to the harddisk of my computer • in the subsequent transfer via sonicstage the rechargeable battery unfortunately went empy, and the transfer was interrupted • the HI MD was not playable any more • as inexperienced MD user I formatted the HI MD and then copied the complete .hma data from my computer back to the MD via copy/paste (by usage of windows explorer) but it still doesn't play • SONY can't help me But as i am unexperienced and don't know how to really use a hex editor and i have particularly two questions to my quotation below: - how can create a dummy omg file? - how can i identify/extract the suitable data of a certain song from the atdataxx.hma (as this in my case has 650 MB) - how can i identify/stripp of block headers etc. - in the view modus of a hex editor i have seen that the atdata is divided into blocks each starting with "ATX". how shall i join them?