I've had the transfer problem. Hi-MD MZ-M100. I was transferring 32 album at 64K. The first album had 20 tracks, all tracks the same artist. The first time it hung up at the end of the first album. The second time it hung up after I pushed record and before any tracks had transferred. I am using ss 3.4. Pentium 4, 512 MB, Windows XP Home Edition, SP2. My system tray shows Kodak Easy Share Software, MD Simple Burner, Quicktime, and McAfee. My startup contained Kensington Mouse Works, Adobe Gamma Loader, Microsoft Fast Find, and Digital Line Detect, whatever that is. I don't know if I have any codecs running. How do you find out? I had Window Explorer shut down. SS was the only program running. Today I tried the work around and everything worked fine. I started the transfer on the first album and as soon as it started, I added the other 31 albums.