maulwurfchen

Thanks for the replies. I already thought that there must be many other people who had the same experience and that there isn't a solution as yet. Still I think this is outrageous - what crappy software design! Thanks also for the advise. What I normally do wih my Hi-MD microphone recordings is transferring them into wave, editing them with wavelab, and afterwards compressing them to MP3 (192-256 kbps) and saving them to harddisk and DVD. I fortunately have not been crazy enought to keep everything in ATRAC3-Files. However, the recordings I mad just before my system crash and which I haven't yet edited may be lost for ever, and there is no way for me to re-record them. Really annoying! I hope Sony will eventually release a Sonicstage version which will allow to recover this file, or - even better - that someone hacks this stupid encryption and will make it useless! Helmut

I know, this is a problem I probably share with many other users, and that probably there hasn't been a solution found yet, but maybe there has!? I lately had to completely re-setup my system. I still had some Hi-MD oma-files, which I haven't yet transferred to wave and edited, but since these are all microphone recordings, no CD-rips, I didn't think the Sony copy protection was an issue with these. I simply copied all the folders of my library to another harddisk, and copied them to the same location after having re-installed the system and Sonicstage 3.4. However, I have lost the "license" of all the files and get the following message when trying to play any of the files: _________________________________________________________ Cannot Play back this track. Do you want to connect to the internet and download the license for the Track ? When I click Yes, it hangs for a few seconds and the following message appears Cannot load the rights information for the selected tracks. The file format may not be supported by SonicStage (0000010d) ________________________________________________ Is there any way, at least to play *.oma files without sonic stage? At least I then could re-record them with - for example - total recorder. These are original microphone recordings, which cannot be recovered in another way. It makes me quite furious that SoncStage apparenty destroys these files, and demands "license" for private recordings! Helmut