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  1. Ha! No, apparently I don't really know how SS operates. I'll try Rt-clicking and see what I get. Thanks
  2. It says v3.1. WHY, I don't know, since I just upgraded 3 days ago. Sony insists on doing an online upgrade (IMPOSSIBLE on dialup), so I took my laptop to a wifi spot and did the install there. The Sony app examined my system and then ran it's installer/upgrade app. If there's a 3.2 I don't have it. And I don't have it on any desktop PCs, either, since I can't drag them around. The desktops only have what came with the MD. I'm travelling back to the 21st century tomorrow , so if someone sends me a link I'll DL the newer version. BTW: I am 0.5 miles too far from the switchbox for DSL, there is NO cable TV here (Time-Warner will wire me for $24,000 per mile, my price: $21,000), and I used to have satellite internet until the bird FELL OUT of the sky. I have satellite TV, this place looks like Earth Station Zebra (2 mini-dish, 1 Big dish, 1 dead 'net satellite dish) and I still have to drive 8 miles to get high-speed. So it's not for lack of effort! Thanks for the advice, all --Tapper
  3. How would I convert a WAV to LP-anything before transferring it? Maybe I'm missing some menu choice in SonicStage. I'm not sure of the bitrate, but it's not just degredation: the sound is speeded up at least 2x, and frankly, I couldn't make it do that if I wanted to!
  4. Hi All! I have a NetMD MZ-N510CK and I downloaded the latest version of Sonic Stage a couple days ago (what a difference!!). I bought the MD over a year ago to record from the radio and haven't had problems before. But now I lost my favorite radio channel on Sirius so I decided to go to a Wifi spot and download a couple dozen hours at a time, then transfer the shows to MD. [there's no cable or DSL here at home: very rural] The radio shows are 3 hours normally, and about 1:45-2 compressed by the archive. I can't move the whole file over to MD straight because it won't fit, so I need compression. I fiddled with some settings so that it will fit 2 or 3 shows, but when I play it back they sould like "Alvin and the Chipmunks". The only thing that works perfectly is playing the show on the PC and recording to the MD via line-in. But it kind of defeats the purpose if I have to babysit my PC for 30 hours! So I'm looking for a file transfer with compression. I am only listening to talk, so signal degredation from compression isn't a problem. I even got an MP3 splitter app, but it's a REAL pain in the butt doing that for all the files. The MD would be perfect if I could record my shows in L4 mode, but that appears to be causing the problem. I spend most of my day driving and I just LIVED for my Sirius station, but now that it's gone my real need is to find a way to grab the shows and convert them to something that I can hear at home and in the car. I generally use the MD with an FM modulator which works great. I have a CD-player in the car, but it can't read MP3 disks, so I'm back to splitting MP3s to get them small enough for an audio CD. I am thinking that I may have to get an MP3 Player (and do the same FM-Mod thing), but I've looked around and I don't want to spend hundreds of bucks. Maybe $40-70. Ideally I'd like to travel with 8-10 hours of shows. And I'm a PC person, so I don't want an iPod. Any advice will be much appreciated! --Tapper
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