Transfer Rights For This Track Do Not Allow...

[MAVickers]

Guh.

Now that HiMD allows me to upload, I've started converting some of my old record collection to MP3 using my MZ-NHF800 as the recording device from the record player, uploading to the PC.

I record two albums, and upload them both (a couple crusty Mylon Lefevre albums if you care!). I then edit both (track breaking, compression, etc), save out to .wav, and then compress to MP3 (which is what I convert everything in my library to). All tracks up to this point sound just fine.

After tagging, I import both albums into SS 2.3, select both for transfer, and then hit the transfer button. The first album transfers just fine, the second throws the following error:

"Transfer rights for this track do not allow transfers to devices/media."

This also occasionally happens with MP3's I've downloaded or ripped from CD, and it happens to every track in the album, not just to a track here and there. Anybody have a quick fix other than recording an ISO image and re-ripping through SS?

This is beyond stupid. SONY FIX YOUR SOFTWARE.

[Syrius]

It's possible the encoder you are using is watermarking the tracks with Digital Rights Management crud. I suggest you transfer the wav files to MD with SS (or use the Nero Imagedrive and Simple Burner trick) before compressing them to MP3. That way you will have your tracks sounding better, and avoid SS stupid restrictions.

[dex Otaku]

What are you using to make the MP3s?

And also, just a note - you do realise that the way you're doing things is putting the tracks through 2 generations of lossy compression [if you're recording on the HiMD in PCM mode; if you're recording in HiSP, you're going through 3 generations of lossy compression] .. ?

[MAVickers]

It's possible the encoder you are using is watermarking the tracks with Digital Rights Management crud. I suggest you transfer the wav files to MD with SS (or use the Nero Imagedrive  and Simple Burner trick) before compressing them to MP3. That way you will have your tracks sounding better, and avoid SS stupid restrictions.

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Thanks for the reply. Like I said, I do two albums using the exact same process but for whatever reason, one throws the error, the other does not.

I'm still at a lost at how absolutely asinine Sony's software. Where else do you find a rather large group of consumers having to work around the software so much?

[MAVickers]

What are you using to make the MP3s?

And also, just a note - you do realise that the way you're doing things is putting the tracks through 2 generations of lossy compression [if you're recording on the HiMD in PCM mode; if you're recording in HiSP, you're going through 3 generations of lossy compression] .. ?

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Howdy. Using AudioActive Production Studio Pro, a crusty but solid MP3 converter, and usually am converting to 320 or 256 kbs.

Yep, I realize I'm going through 2/3 generations of lossy compression. To be honest, I don't have golden ears so I really can't tell the difference unless the MP3 I'm starting with is 192 kbs or below. Most of my listening is either on my personal computer at home using cheap, small speakers, in my vehicle, or at work on cheap headphones. The times are rare that I get to use my decent earbuds.

Since I do a majority of listening at home on my computer using MM Jukebox I need my tunes in MP3 format anyhow.

[dex Otaku]

Howdy. Using AudioActive Production Studio Pro, a crusty but solid MP3 converter, and usually am converting to 320 or 256 kbs.

Yep, I realize I'm going through 2/3 generations of lossy compression. To be honest, I don't have golden ears so I really can't tell the difference unless the MP3 I'm starting with is 192 kbs or below. Most of my listening is either on my personal computer at home using cheap, small speakers, in my vehicle, or at work on cheap headphones. The times are rare that I get to use my decent earbuds.

Since I do a majority of listening at home on my computer using MM Jukebox I need my tunes in MP3 format anyhow.

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Understood.

Notes that I'm required by my compulsive nature to include, though:

Audioactive, I believe, uses the Xing MP3 codec - largely reputed to be the worst commercial MP3 encoder ever created, in terms of non-compliance with standards, poor sound quality, and strange forms of artifacting. About half of the MP3s I have had problems with converting with SS were created with Xing encoders.

If you're using MM Jukebox - why not use it for ripping? Last I heard, it used the consumer version of the FhG codec [from the people who created MP3], which, as long as you don't use variable bitrate [VBR] modes, should be far better than what you're using.

[MAVickers]

Audioactive, I believe, uses the Xing MP3 codec - largely reputed to be the worst commercial MP3 encoder ever created, in terms of non-compliance with standards, poor sound quality, and strange forms of artifacting.  About half of the MP3s I have had problems with converting with SS were created with Xing encoders.

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Agree on the quality of Xing encoders, but AA Pro uses Fraunhofer. I can't find a download link to the software anymore, but that particular link notes that the software uses Fraunhofer.

If you're using MM Jukebox - why not use it for ripping?

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I actually do for ripping my CDs, but for converting stuff I rip from vinyl I tend to prefer AA Pro. AA Pro has a much better queuing interface. That, and MM Jukebox has a massive memory leak in the folder selection dialog when finding the source files.

[dex Otaku]

Agree on the quality of Xing encoders, but AA Pro uses Fraunhofer. I can't find a download link to the software anymore, but that particular link notes that the software uses Fraunhofer.

I actually do for ripping my CDs, but for converting stuff I rip from vinyl I tend to prefer AA Pro. AA Pro has a much better queuing interface. That, and MM Jukebox has a massive memory leak in the folder selection dialog when finding the source files.

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RE: AA Pro - duly noted.

Suggestions, then:

#1) get lame from http://mitiok.cjb.net/ .. this is consider by most to be the mp3 encoder of choice.

#2) get razorlame [simple encoder queuer] from http://www.dors.de/razorlame/download.php .. it does come with presets.

#3) get MP3BookHelper from http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/modul...?name=Downloads .. This is for editing tags on mp3 and other audio media files, including doing mass-tagging and renaming of files. It is, hands-down, the best and most versatile tagging app I've ever seen.

This may be more complicated than what you'd like, but these are the tools I use on a regular [almost daily] basis.