Anakondarh

so heres the problem... I connected my himd nh700 to my office computers usb cable to listen to some music while at work... sonicstage would recognize the device but wouldnt display the list of songs... then i pulled the disc out and back in and i look at the players screen and it read "no edit or playback possible" or something like that... and i happened to press play and i see "system file writing" thats when i thought oh crap but of course i cant pull the disc out... so when i pull the disc out and back in yes it was true it had formatted the disc... does anyone know why it would do this? i hadnt edited the disc for the longest time (it was the first himd disc i had made... like 2 years old... sniff) and i know for a fact it did play and wasnt damaged or anything... i dont think its been exposed to any magnetic fields ar anything like that and i actually believe that that wouldnt affect it anyways (i always thought it wasnt a magnetic based system like a hard drive or diskette but i could be wrong)... so anywho... any ideas on how to recover the info? i read sumthin some time ago about rebuilding the TOC... and does anyone know why it would do this and format without my permission? thnx

K let me get this straight... you use the terms "recording" and "uploading". You have to realize that theyre not the same thing. When youre uploading, everything is digital so Soundcard or not, there wont be a difference. If you are "recording" I assume you are connecting a line into your computer and playing the music on yure PC (using sonicstage or other audio player) while live recording on the player? because then the sound card WILL make a difference, better SC = better sound quality. Just a thought.

Yes, I know... Thats what I thought too, especially because If you check the new features on Winamp 5.2, you can see that they worked on quite a number of things on the ID3 tag reading and editing... bugs anyone? the problem is tho even tho its prolly winamp the one with the problems its SS the one that is reflecting them... man SS sucks so much it even crashes when OTHER programs have problems lol...

Hi ppl... In the first place I believe we all agree that SonicStage is a piece of junk. This is a shame because I really love my hi-md player, its battery life, etc. but sometimes its a pain in the a$$ to transfer songs to it because of how faulty SS is, and also because of the HiMds lack of support for other formats, making it impossible to transfer songs unless your copy of SS decides to actually work for a change. Ive had problems with almost every version of SS Ive used, starting with the one that came with the system (back in dec2004, ver 2.0 I believe, would crash randomly making it impossible to do anything so I basically had to record any music I wanted to listen to (problem disappeared when I had to format my HD and reinstalled SS2.0)) followed by 3.3 (it wouldnt burn audio CDs out of atrac3 files, k allow me to restate It WOULD burn them but not finish the last couple of tracks, basically ruining a perfectly good CD-R (yes I am a perfectionist and do not like having CDs where the last couple of tracks dont work)) I believe the problem disappeared when upgrading to 3.4 even tho Im not sure and Im not gonna ruin another CD to find out lol... Anywayz... About a month and a half ago my copy of SS (3.4) started to randomly crash when trying to import mp3 files. Some files it would transfer no problem, some it would just crash and give me the message "the instruction in "0x7c9211de" (this is just an example i just put together but I believe that instruction changes randomly) refers to the memory in "0x00000000" (I believe this changes randomly too). The memory cant be "read"" and it would crash. So basically I couldnt import files, meaning I couldnt throw new music into my discs. And there was no apparent pattern to the files it would accept and the ones it wouldnt. So after doing a lot of thinking and researching (experimenting with files and trying to import them to see what happened) I ended up realizing that the only files it would not import where the ones whose tag i had edited using WinAmp. It took me the longest time to figure this out b/c before I could change the tags w/ winamp and then import them no problem. But I finally realized that I started having that problem the day I uploaded to the newest version of winamp (5.2). Now... My solution for that has been a) open winamp and throw all the desired files in the playlist select all of them together, right clic, "view file info", and deselect "ID3v1 tag" and ID3v2 tag". when you press accept it takes you to the next file down the list. Just keep doing this until all desired files have no tags c)import them to SS and d) re-apply the tags in SS, which is mildly easy since basically clickin on any name twice (slowly, not double-clic) will allow you to change it, or selecting several files and right-clicking, then properties will allow you to change the tags on all files at once. Voila! I know, I know, its a nuisance. But hey its either that or never listen to new music... By the way, emphazise that I only had this problem with tags I had created/changed myself. Never with tagless files or files with tags that I didnt edit. Dont ask me why that is... Oh well I gotta get back to work. I hope my experience helps somebody. If you have any other questions regarding this let me know, even tho I believe I pretty much stated everything I can think of. gEnE praying for a day when SonicStage loads quickly, doesnt crash randomly (or wait, even better, doesnt crash AT ALL) and makes our HiMd exp a dream and not a nightmare... then we shall be able to punch those iPod owners. =P