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thank you for info ! now i understand why someone wrote somewhere on the board 'ATRAC advance useless'...

wait a minute, it seems like the problem i'm having right now... just installed SS3.4 and got excited about ATRAC lossless option (as i'm using .wav everyday) - more lossless music on one disc seemed so wonderful until... each time i've been transfering ATRAC lossless files onto hi-md, i ended with it being reencoded into 256kbs lossy... tell me it's a nightmare...

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the only thing i wish to be somehow hacked/unlocked in my RH910, though i know it's impossible, is two step mega-bass function the old net-md units had... bass in my N505 used to be punchy and dynamic compering to what hi-md's equalizer can do...

yeah, i blocked off windows xp firewall as well as norton - nothing... also tried with winamp CDDB regestration, but it showed me some 'operation failure' information...

oh, you did it after registering through winamp... i'll try that, thanks... but what to do with the ports?... i can't just turn the firewall off... i had many problems while turning it of just for a while and then finding some spyware or torjan someone put at that time on my harddrive...

hi... i have the same problem... i get 'socket open failed' information while i try to register... i didn't have that problem when i was using older version of SB with my net-md unit before - i'm registered there, but now it doesn't ask me to write down my old login... and yes, i changed to 'do not use proxy' in sonicstage options... anybody knows what to do?... i can't stand those 'untitled1', untitled2' titles after transfering cd into my unit...

thanks again, Sebastian... maybe it's better for me to leave "Program Files/Sony/Personal Audio Driver"... i hope 3.2 version is much less confusing... and how did i solved it?... it solved itself: 'searching universal storage device driver' appeared after a few trys of installing proper hi-md driver manually... then there was code 10 error information... when i closed that window, windows xp informed me that hi-md device is installed properly... very strange... think i did a good thing buying an extra 3 year warranty with my unit... it seems there are a lot of problems with hi-md's when i look around this forum...

thanks for advice, sebastianbf... actually i solved that problem somehow - above i'm describing that very strange way it happened... so, while everything works, can i uninstall sonicstage 3.0 + simple burner and install 3.2 version from downloads section?... and what with this hi-md driver recognize thing, will it stay as it is in windows system?... sorry for newbie-like questions...

well, it just did, but after some complicated and crazy procedures... i'm wondering if that happened to anyone here before... my story is: i bought mz-rh910 unit in the states and checked it there using my parents' laptop under windows 2000 and everything worked well - no problem with recognizing of hi-md device... the problem started when i arrived home to europe - software installed properly, but then, when i plugged usb to the unit, information with 'seeking driver for hi-md device' started to flash rapidly, blinking all the time, like turning on and off... computer seemed to be thinking, but it was leading nowhere... i managed to click on 'find driver manually' while it was blinking (that wasn't easy) and still couldn't do anything... once it calmed down and changed to information showed the normal way, but this time it said 'find universal storage device driver' - i clicked ok... it ended with error 'code 10' or something like that... i closed that window and found the windows xp cloud at the bottom of the screen saying 'hi-md device installed'... from that moment hi-md works with my computer as it should... can anybody tell me what was that?... is it usual to windows xp system?... i've been using mz-n505 net-md before and didn't have any trouble... anyway, it was nightmare i don't wish anyone... oh, and maybe someone knows how to switch off that awful sound at the end of transfering in the sonicstage? (looked into options, but didn't see)...

i'm also looking forward to record audio for the film projects separately on hi-md unit i'm going to buy soon... however, there's one thing that's not so great about it: sampling rate of audio from digital video cameras is 48 kHz, so the editing software (for example adobe premiere) is designed to work with such a sound clips... sampling rate of hi-md is 44 kHz... that means you have to convert it to 48 kHz before editing with image (for converting i'm using cool edit pro) and it takes some time... if you don't do this, audio rendered in the film editing software will have very poor quality - a kind of digital hiss on the top of your recordings... hope it'll help...

thanks L7R. i'm asking because i've heard people complaining about quality of mp3 playback. they mentioned that the only way to have it right is to transfer mp3 into atrac3, but it's the second compession i'd like to avoid.

hi everyone, i'm new to the forum. looking forward to buy RH910, as my N505 died a month ago. i've been reading manual from the web and one thing seems strange: it's said that 2nd gen units can read mp3 without converting it into atrac3, but there's no word about transfering it anyhow (sonicstage software or 'my computer' browser way). i guess it can be done just as .jpg, .bmp files they're writing about. but actually in manual there's no word about mp3. i know sony's not getting well with that thing, i heard about some 'high frequency cutting bug' in the units (hope there will be some way to pass it). anyone have experience with transfering mp3? i heard not all of them are working. how's with vbr ones?