Philbiker

Follow-up. Sonic Stage 3.4 works like a charm! Thanks so much all!

Apparently their online tech support doesn't know anything about this. They are completely worthless. The last time I tried to chat with them regarding this issue the guy on the chat actually told me to try another computer. Right. Another cmoputer. Sounds like that would still have the same problem. A google search finds at least one other place on the net where someone has reported this issue. Sony are idiots. Too bad for me I like their compression schemes enough to put up with their crap.

Not for me. Same problem still happens for me - see my other thread.

Thanks so much! It can't hurt. All the installations of 3 that I've found on the net "phone home" and install 4.2. SO FRUSTRATING! I've got something like 30 ATRAC CDs and I really like the format - sounds as good as MP3 at half the bitrate! Why would they sabotage it? Here and elsewhere it's apparent that there are MAJOR problems writing ATRAC CDs with Sonic Stage 4.x. I've reverted to Simple Burner 1.0 that came with my CD player. Three years ago when I got this ATRAC player I was using a slower computer with slower CD audio reading from a slower drive and a less robust OS. SB 1.0 works much faster and better than I remember! I'm thinking of just sticking with it. The nice thing is that it can sit on the PC with newer versions of Sonic Stage. I've been using MD since the mid-90s. Love it. The ATRAC brand is why I got this CD player. I don't keep anything in my library so there's nothing to back up. I don't listen to music on the computer. I only use Sonic Stage for burning ATRAC CD's, using my own CD collection as the source. That's why Simple Burner works for me now. Thanks everyone for the help.

I've had a problem creating ATRAC CDs since version 4, I don't think I've created a successful ATRAC CD for my MD-walkman once on version 4+ of Sonic Stage. I've created many successful ATRAC CDs using every version since version 1. It gets to a point where the software infinite loops, the message going from "Transferring" to "Song Name" and a percent. It loops forever. Any hints? Are there any ways to download and install previous versions? I really like ATRAC CDs (I've been using the ATRAC brand in MD since the mid-90s) and don't want to go backwards to MP3. Sony online tech support is of no help.