vincent-x

Hello everyone, I have used Minidisc for many years and when the NetMDs cam out I bought one. I had happily been building a nice library and everything was in the ATRAC format. I kept my music files on an external hard drive and the program was installed on the drive inside my laptop. Recently my laptop drive crashed. Having recently built a new rig I installed Sonic Stage on to it and imported the files in but it said that it could not find the required licenses to play the material. It offered to connect to the internet but afterwards it hadn’t done anything. Using a 2.5” drive to 3.5” drive converter and some recovery software I pulled the information out of ‘Documents and Settings’ in the Sony folders and tried copying these across. I still cannot play my files. You might suggest that I just need to rip my CDs again, but I’m in Japan and my CDs are in the UK and we aren’t going to be seeing each other anytime soon. Is there anything that anybody else can possibly suggest in order to help me? I haven’t contacted Sony yet as I think that I will either get no support whatsoever or they will tell me that I need to rip my CDs again. If anyone can even offer the slightest suggest as to what I can do please reply, I am really getting to the end of my tether on this and I have even been tempted to go P2P to get MP3s of the CDs I own. Thanks everyone, Vincent-x