Sonicstage 2.3 Transfer Problem

[Jubei]

So here's my problem with Sonicstage 2.3 that just started occuring recently:

Sonicstage itself works fine but When I transfer a track to my NH1 in Hi-MD OR NetMD mode, the track will transfer but when I listen to it, there will be background bloops and the track may be sped up a bit. I haven't seen any other problem of this kind around so I was wondering if anyone knew anything about it.

So far, I've done 3-4 full reinstalls of SS2.3. I've also tried uninstalling my MD drivers and reinstalling them. All this and I'm having no success.

Currently I'm running SP2 with everything up to date. I'm thinking the problem was caused by a recent security update post SP2 but I have no way of knowing since XP won't let me uninstall the individual updates.

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I also have a less critical problem on my 2k machine with SS. It seems whenever I connect my NH1 to it in NetMD mode and start up SS, my computer will just reboot itself. Anyone else get this?

Any help would be appreciated but the first problem is what I would really want fixed asap

I hope this wasn't already posted. I ran a search but couldn't find anything similar

[MZ-NH1]

Have you tried to re-format you MD Discs?

I have just had a problem with my SS 2.3, which I have never had before. It wouldn't transfer/delete/edit anything using SS to my MD, so I ended up reformatting my 1gb Disc, and everything works fine now. Maybe try that?

Sorry it isn’t anything more.

But I myself can’t think of anything else which you haven’t already tried which would work.

[dex Otaku]

"Background bloops and sped up a bit"

This wouldn't be from transcoded low-bitrate mp3s, would it?

I've seen SS misidentify the sampling rate of certain files, which the player then plays back at 44.1kHz, resulting in .. well, the chipmunk effect.

RE: win2k netMD mode issue

I have no ideas there. I've only used SS with netMD mode once, and I doubt I ever will again [because I simply haven't the need to].

I suspect this would be OS-related, somehow, meaning you're going to have to find a pool of users running win2k.

You might try asking in the netMD forum if any of those users have difficulty with SS on win2k. It's grasping at straws, perhaps, but .. you never know.

[Jubei]

"Background bloops and sped up a bit"

This wouldn't be from transcoded low-bitrate mp3s, would it?

I've seen SS misidentify the sampling rate of certain files, which the player then plays back at 44.1kHz, resulting in .. well, the chipmunk effect.

The mp3s themselves have no problem. They all transferred perfectly up until the problems started. I've tried transferring the same mp3s via Hi-MD mode on my win2k machine and they had no issue.

[dex Otaku]

The mp3s themselves have no problem.  They all transferred perfectly up until the problems started.  I've tried transferring the same mp3s via Hi-MD mode on my win2k machine and they had no issue.

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They wouldn't have a problem themselves. SS is well-known for treating a lot of mp3s weirdly, such as decoding the output of certain encoders only as silence, or gagging on VBR files. I have also experienced the 'sped up' thing when converting some files that were of lower sampling rates - which is especially weird, since 96 and 48kHz files were converted fine.

The culprit here may be that you have a bad or weird mp3 codec installed on your machine. There might also be more than one installed.

Go to the control panel, open "sounds and audio devices", go to the last tab, "Hardware", scroll down to "audio codecs" and hit "properties".

In the list that opens should be at least one mp3 codec - probably the Fraunhofer IIS free version. If there is anything else there that looks like an mp3 codec, disable it [double-click on the codec name and it will bring up a dialogue giving you the option of disabling it].

Otherwise, you can't be sure. It's probably codec-related in some way.

[Jubei]

They wouldn't have a problem themselves.  SS is well-known for treating a lot of mp3s weirdly, such as decoding the output of certain encoders only as silence, or gagging on VBR files.  I have also experienced the 'sped up' thing when converting some files that were of lower sampling rates - which is especially weird, since 96 and 48kHz files were converted fine.

The culprit here may be that you have a bad or weird mp3 codec installed on your machine.  There might also be more than one installed.

Go to the control panel, open "sounds and audio devices", go to the last tab, "Hardware", scroll down to "audio codecs" and hit "properties". 

In the list that opens should be at least one mp3 codec - probably the Fraunhofer IIS free version.  If there is anything else there that looks like an mp3 codec, disable it [double-click on the codec name and it will bring up a dialogue giving you the option of disabling it].

Otherwise, you can't be sure.  It's probably codec-related in some way.

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Just checked and I had two different Fraunhofer codecs installed. I disabled the non IIS one and rebooted but still no success =/ I would have never thought about that though

[yunush]

Dear all,

I bought Sony MZ-N10 Net MD which came with SonicStage 1.5.06 version

I uploaded this software into my laptop as it was not working I upgraded to 1.5.50

It too didn't work.. When I start playing the cd's or load any music from my hard disk to sonicstage database it JUST FREEZES COMPLETELY. So later I tried to upgrade to VERSION 2.3 from Connect Europe website.

I AM ON WINDOWS XP HOME EDITIOIN WITH SERVICE PACK 2

Now the problem I am having is the sonic stage doesn't even load AT ALL. When I double click SonicStage it says ''Updating SonicStage Database, Please restart Sonic stage after updating has completed'' and nothing happens after that.

Any help from any of you wise guys would be highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot

Yunush.

Edited January 21, 2005 by yunush

[Jubei]

I apologize for not responding for so long. Here's what I did.

I first uninstalled EVERYTHING. This means all audio/video codecs I had (including ffdshow) as well as sonicstage. A restart later, I reinstalled sonicstage and tested it. It worked fine. Then I installed ffdshow and tried it again. It also worked fine.

Now, I install PowerDVD to cover the mpeg2 files that I wasn't able to play. I test out the codecs with various VOBs and DivX/Xvid files and they work fine. Then, I GO BACK, and try sonicstage again and the problem reoccurs.

This time, I uninstall JUST powerdvd (somehow I had the impression it had to do with powerdvd or otherwise mpeg 2 things because ss worked after I reinstalled ffdshow).

I also uninstall ss and reinstall it. Problem persists.

Lastly, I uninstall everything again, and do a reinstall of ss. Tested it and it worked fine. Then I install separate xvid/divx codecs and test them out with videos beforehand. They work fine and so I try ss and it works fine. I install powerdvd once again and try ss. Voila. It still works!

Of course I haven't restarted after installing the codecs but so far, it works like it should. Let's hope it stays that way.

Thank you juaum from the T-Boards. His suggestion that ffdshow was at fault was dead on.