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Apparantly, these were released already (August 25th). Does anyone know where to get them? I checked Audiocubes (a Japanese MD retailer that sells to the US)and they don't carry them... yet. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for the info.

Thanks Dex. This is excellent information. I will do 2 things: 1) Transfer a 256kbps MP3 version of the album encoded in LAME to my Hi-MD player. 2) Try ripping the entire album in WAV with peak-normalisation. Hopefully Sonicstage will offer peak-normalising in the future - it seems that it is a necessary option. If so, I assume that I would have to re-rip my entire library (ugh) unless they offer it as an on-the-fly option.

You may be right. I will have to check my CDs to see if they distort too. They are newer CDs, so this is possible. I am not doing anything else while ripping CDs or transferring. So, that can probably be ruled out. I just did some testing with Simpleburner and I still hear distortion. I am thinking, as you said, it might be the CD source. I don't think it is the hardware because I also own a 1GB Sony flash player and I just discovered I am hearing the distortion on it too. My computer specs are Windows XP Service Pack 2, 1.41 ghz processor, 256 RAM, Sonicstage 3.1. One other thing I have yet to try is transferring 256kbps MP3s (ripped in LAME) to MD and see if I hear distortion. In a previous test, I noticed that the volume of the MP3s seemed lower, which may be the ripping programs attempt to reduce the DBs to a less-distorted level.

I noticed that some of my Hi-SP songs are distorted when listening to my MZ-RH910. My library is ripped from CDs to Hi-SP. I heard distortion with my EQ on and off. I heard distortion regardless of the volume and headphones I am using. I just noticed this problem since I started creating MDs using SS 3.1, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Has anyone else had this problem or know why it is happening? Note: I read a few other posts about distorted MP3 tracks, but again, I am not using MP3. I ripped directly from CD to Hi-SP (ATRAC 256kbps). Thanks in advance, Jay

I tried creating an MD full of Hi-LP albums. My library is in Hi-SP, so I downsampled on-the-fly. SS converted the tracks and transferred them to my device, but then I noticed no Album, Artist, or Track info transferred to my device - only the music. I saw this on my SS transfer list and then I confirmed that no info transferred to my MD unit - it is an MZ-RH910. Does anyone know why this happened? I appreciate your help. Jay