Cannot load the rights information for the selected tracks.

[Vitek]

I'm trying to transfer some songs, and I get this message

"Cannot load the rights information for the selected tracks."

What does it mean?

[Vitek]

can someone help me?

[varuna]

I have the exact same problem.

Firstly I apologise for having no answer for you... I've purely joined your little queue of people with this annoying problem.

Secondly - my situation.

I am running SonicStage 2.1 on XP SP2. Had a lot of problems with crashing at various points whilst recording/converting tracks. It's annoying how often i've had to repair my database online.

Now I have this issue with the "rights management". I'm pretty new to Hi-MD so finding this forum is hopefully going to help.... a lot. I hope. Someone??

Hoping.

[SlowMo]

and no real solution yet, but i guess, it´s a problem of ss with the id3 tags.

since this is the only place within mp3 files i can imagine copyright info to be stored at.

i had a problem with the correct importing of those tags, dex Otaku helped me out.

so fixing the tags like Otaku told me could (hopefully..) do the job.

cant test it atm, cause i´m at my parent´s, so tell me if it´s worked.

bye.

[Christopher]

Be sure you upgrade to Sonicstage 2.3 as well.

[varuna]

Thanks for your help. I haven't had time to try out the suggestions but I think I will upgrade to SS 2.3 first.

Will read the dex fix also. This dex guy seems somewhat of a legend in these parts, I am saddened to learn of his departure for a while. Just my luck - I always get to the party when the pretty girls have gone. No disrespect to the ugly ones left! ha ha ha.

I did read in another thread that SS 2.3 only worked on jp ver of Windows... is this still the case?

Thanks again for your help.

V

[SlowMo]

SS 2.3 only worked on jp ver of Windows... is this still the case?

no. not if you download it from the right source.

[varuna]

Got SS 2.3 Installed ok on my laptop this time.

Had a slight problem with Windows 2000 and MS patches but found KB articles that fixed that.

2.3 seems much more stable (dare i say it) than the previous ones.

Wahoo!

[Guest Guest]

firstly the source mp3 may have been moved\deleted\renamed

secondly, try running ojbsir.exe to fix database

[ric3kus]

i m still having problem like this, some of my mp3 won't transfer, WHY????

btw i did upgrade my ss to 2.3 and it still doesn't let me transfer some of my mp3, any ideas?

[dex Otaku]

Will read the dex fix also. This dex guy seems somewhat of a legend in these parts, I am saddened to learn of his departure for a while. Just my luck - I always get to the party when the pretty girls have gone. No disrespect to the ugly ones left! ha ha ha.

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Um. Hm. I'm a pretty girl?

["I am not a Pretty Girl" by Ani DiFranco pops into my head]

Incidentally, mp3s do not carry DRM info. ID3 tags are simple metadata - titles, &c. If you're having problems with importing MP3s, chances are the source did something wrong and the file is at least partly corrupted in some way. Sometimes this can be from missing or incorrect chunks from file transfers; sometimes it can be because someone used a shoddy encoder [Xing, anyone?].

The problem I encounter most often is that certain mp3s will come through as silence, because the SS transcoder can't figure out something about them. It doesn't seem consistent as to encoder [i -do- pay attention] or bitrate, and doesn't even seem related to VBR vs. CBR. Both do it, occasionally.

The simplest solution I've found so far is to use something like Nero's 'image recorder', record an image of an audio CD with the tracks you want on it.. then mount the image with their ImageDrive utility and rip it in SS which, at that point, sees it simply as another CD [and if it's a full album, it's likely to even pick up the title info from CDDB as well].

This isn't a new method by any means. I think I may have first read about it here or on T-Board months ago. It does work, though, even if it is more time-consuming.

Unfortunately, some mp3s just don't work with SS. [Note that it will usually play them if you add them to the library, but it won't transcode them correctly.]

[SlowMo]

(...)The simplest solution I've found so far is to use something like Nero's 'image recorder', record an image of an audio CD with the tracks you want on it.. then mount the image with their ImageDrive utility and rip it in SS which, at that point, sees it simply as another CD [and if it's a full album, it's likely to even pick up the title info from CDDB as well].

Unfortunately, some mp3s just don't work with SS.  [Note that it will usually play them if you add them to the library, but it won't transcode them correctly.]

transcoding to wav would also do, but obviously doesn´t have the advandage of cddb

i´ve noticed, that if i try transferring a file (that previously couldn´t be done due to "unsupported format" - it´s an mp3, i know that, but ss won´t beleive me... ) while being played, ss doesn´t bother (sometimes, at least). trying again and again also works out.(can´t tell if it was only the latter that helped, though) perhaps this is applicable to the copyright prob ? haven´t encountered that one yet on my father´s pc...

Incidentally, mp3s do not carry DRM info. ID3 tags are simple metadata - titles, &c.

but there is a place for copyright info, right ? no drm, but ss doesn´t say it couldn´t get the drm, but the copyright info, or am i missing something..?