Fujur

Thanks! I'll give it a try without so much anxiety!!!

Thank you for the answer... Hmm.. That's sad. Not only direct support owuld have been convenient from the transfer angle, but I was also thinking of getting a car unit that supports USB storage devices and perhps hooking up the HI-MD to it. It owuld have been wonderful - Having the same media for in-car and portable, plues the HI-MD works off of th USB power.... But most importantly I wanted to bypass SonicStage. There are very many other more flexible applications to sync file-based music devices (I like MediaMonkey and I also use MagicMusicMixer to create the mixes). Adding SonicStage to the mix created a nightmare of a process to keep thing in sync for me. As far as my blanket statement. I should have said SS sucked for me, and it may or may not have worked well fo rother people. Personally, I have had nothing but problems with SS since early versions up until 2.2 where I just created some MDs and never touched the thing again. I still have a *very* sour taste from spending many-many hours on the phone with support, with three different computers and two different OSs - all different problems. I really like and use my MiniDisc *daily* and all the models I've had were neat, but the SonicStage software is -in my opinionated opinion- extremely buggy. I just downloaded version 3.3.. I'm a little scared to install it, for fear of messing up my system, but I'll probably cave since I want to get some new music in there from this new machine. I don't quite undersand what the native MP3 support adds in term of functionality. Just transfer speed and avoiding re-encoding (and degrading the quality)?

Hi all, I'm trying to have NOTHING to do with SonicStage... (reasons are obvious: it sucks). N00b question: Does the latest generation of HI-MD players that state they can play back MP3s directly allow me to just copy the MP3s as files into the disc for playback without going through SonicStage, or do I still have to use SonicStage if I want to player to play the files as music?? Regards, -Fujur.