Yoda's Girlfriend

He mentioned it was named here, hence my reason for being here. At the time of speaking to him on the phone he could not remember what it was, although he used it for removing the DRM protection tag on the PCM audio data, so he could save the live performance he recorded as wave files. He said he'd call back later when he found the program at home. Maybe I should drop another line, have another chat. He wasn't Sony, per se, but he is the minidisc Guru at an authorised Sony service centre. Which is actually one of the better service centres I have found. They don't charge like raging bulls and actually repair stuff instead of replacing 80% of components. I will let you know. :-)

Join the club. Although I still have my PCM Hi-MD masters, I have been on the phone to a Sony service centre & I have been told that there is no way of converting .OMA files to standard wave formats using SonicStage. SonicStage can convert from CD/wave to MD, but not the other way, he said. Which is what I found aswell. At least in the version I have. Whoever designed this software is not strong with the force. Anyway, according to Mr. Sony Serviceman, if the DRM tag info is removed from the .OMA files, then conversion to wave is easy. He mentioned a $20 or thereabouts software that does this. Bloody stupid, it is. Paying for additional software so we can extract our own recordings from the MD. My 1GB discs are filled with PCM audio recordings from stage microphones used in a theatre production I filmed. My next purchase will NOT be another minidisc. There are better digital audio recorders that do not mess you around with this nonsense. Had I known this when I bought the unit, I would not have bought it. Bloody salesmen. Worse than Darth Vader, they are.