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  2. Native MP3 capability without SonicStage?

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    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)?

    Please elaborate.... (actually on second thoughts don't bother - such blanket statements are fairly poinless and only lead to unecessary arguments)

    But in answer to your question, you still need to use Sonic Stage to be able to transfer MP3 audio files to 2nd gen Hi-MD players.

  3. Native MP3 capability without SonicStage?

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    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.

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