Valder Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Damn thing and windows! I was recording onto a Hi-MD disc and of course my wonderful Winblows XP PC crashed. Now all I get whenever I insert any MD (even ones I recorded on the PC in Sonic Stage) into the 600D I get a message that the disc was initialized not in Sonic Stage and cannot be used in the application. And it takes FOREVER to recognize the inserted disc. Then it tells me to re-initialize so I do and I keep getting the same message..... Valder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valder Posted October 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 OK now I have re-initialized this disc and many others and I keep getting the it can't be used as an audio disc because it was initialize other than Sonic Stage. So is this thing screwed or what? I'm about to chuck it in the garbage. Val Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Unplug player. Close SonicStage and restart Windows. Take the battery out of the player and leave it out for a minute. Reinsert battery. When Windows is up again, start SonicStage, when it is fully loaded, plug in the player. If the discs are conventional discs, initialize them in NetMD mode, that way everything is deleted, then initialize again in Hi-MD mode. That should usually solve the problem. Point is, when SonicStage or Windows crashes, the firmware of the player crashes as well. Taking out the battery solves that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valder Posted October 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Point is, when SonicStage or Windows crashes, the firmware of the player crashes as well. Taking out the battery solves that. I know. I was powering it up by the USB port. I did all of the above as standard "my windows trashes everything" protocol. I'll let the player sit while I set up my new printer....then run through the routine again. Val Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valder Posted October 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 What I picky PITA peice of software. Had to uninstall SS and then reinstall it. Then it I had to put in a normal MD and reformat it to Hi_MD and then it worked with the Hi-MD discs. UGH! I was about to go back to tapes. ;-) Valder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Sony and Software - A never ending story... Good to hear, it works again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valder Posted October 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 I think that smashing my 600 also helped a bit...at least I want to think so. :laugh: Val Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Posted October 2, 2004 Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 Anybody know if sony have a in-house programming team or they outsource? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksandbergfl Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 Unplug player. Close SonicStage and restart Windows. Point is, when SonicStage or Windows crashes, the firmware of the player crashes as well. Taking out the battery solves that.SonicStage writes a key in the "C:Program FilesCommon FilesSony SharedOpenMGOMGKEY" folder. When you re-install SonicStage, a new key is generated. The minidisc player still has the old key in it, and freaks out. Another sucky part of this is -- now, because your PC has a different key, the music on your HiMD disks is now "orphaned".... Sonic Stage will no longer let you "check in" or transfer the OMA files off the disk back onto your PC. SonicStage now thinks your HiMD's were created on a different computer, and that you are trying to illegally copy music to a different computer! If you didn't keep the OMA files on your PC (like I don't), you'll have to re-encode all your music AGAIN if you want to put it on another disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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