Simple Hi-MD Music Structure Reader + Sources

[The Low Volta]

oops , my bad, fishy... sorry to bother you with my dumb remark I only reread the first posts and forgot about your actions to open up Sony's vault

[marcnet]

HIMDRenderer 0.52 will read and export the listing of NetMD and HI-MD disks. Its under the "MD Listing" button. It also does not require the .NET framework, and *should* work under 98SE. The NetMD reading part will require some version of SonicStage installed as the DLL's used by HIMDRenderer to read NetMD listings come with SonicStage

[3ym]

Can some one discibe how to work with .HMA file via SonicStage DLL?

I have an idea to write some tool for automatic rename cyrillic titles to latin(translation).

But i have no ideas HOW to do it.

[marcnet]

Can some one discibe how to work with .HMA file via SonicStage DLL?

I have an idea to write some tool for automatic rename cyrillic titles to latin(translation).

But i have no ideas HOW to do it.

SonicStage and its DLL's use Microsoft COM instead of using exported API functions (like the NetMD DLL's do). This means you need the GUID and the exact binary structure of these COM objects in order to use them. The SonicStage DLL's use their own COM interfaces as opposed to the standard Microsoft ones you can use from an SDK.

So unless you know the structure of the interfaces and classes provided by the SonicStage DLL's, you cannot use them for renaming or any other HMA file editing function.

[phish]

I tested HiMD Lister 0.0.4 and HiMD idx on my Windows XP system with MZ-RH1.

- Windows XP SP2 Korean

- Sony MZ-RH1

- HiMD media: There are 106 tracks, first 8 tracks in the first group,

next 14 tracks in the 2nd group, the rest tracks in the ROOT.

- SonicStage 4.3 Asian version: I used SS 4.3 Asian version to transfer the songs.

[RESULTS]

1. HiMD Lister 0.0.4

It catches all groups and tracks, but it shows only English texts.

It doesn't support Korean language, then all Korean letters are replaced by ? or garbage.

One interesting thing is HiMD Lister can access the all data of the HiMD media;

it lists all tracks including the erased ones. I erased 2 tracks on the disc and HiMD Lister

lists 108 tracks while SonicStage displays 106 tracks.

2. HiMD IDX

It has simple gui, and it supports .rtf and .cvs formats, HiMD Lister does only .txt.

I had an error message while running it.

There are recorded data on the Hi-MD,

some errors will be occur!

[Abort] [ignore]

I pressed Ignore several times until the window was closed.

Finally HiMD IDX stoped. Run button changed to Halt and

time progrssing bar displayed pass#3.

The list file only has English named tracks.

[marcnet]

HIMDLister is an obsolete product of mine. Mainly because the functionality has been merged into HIMDRenderer. Try HIMDRenderer 0.54 and see if its any improvement. It should work with both NetMD and HIMD devices -just use the "lister" button

Edited November 7, 2007 by marcnet

[phish]

HIMDLister is an obsolete product of mine. Mainly because the functionality has been merged into HIMDRenderer. Try HIMDRenderer 0.54 and see if its any improvement. It should work with both NetMD and HIMD devices -just use the "lister" button

Thank you marcnet.

I tested HiMDRenderer 0.54. It doesn't support Korean track information.

[marcnet]

Thank you marcnet.

I tested HiMDRenderer 0.54. It doesn't support Korean track information.

Would it be possible for you to email me the following:

1) The contents of the HMDHIFI folder from the HIMD minidisc, not including the very big ATData file.

2) A screen shot of Sonicstage showing the tracks from the same HIMD disc correctly - as they should be displayed

3) A screen shot of what HIMDRenderer actually shows for the same HIMD disc.

[phish]

Would it be possible for you to email me the following:

1) The contents of the HMDHIFI folder from the HIMD minidisc, not including the very big ATData file.

2) A screen shot of Sonicstage showing the tracks from the same HIMD disc correctly - as they should be displayed

3) A screen shot of what HIMDRenderer actually shows for the same HIMD disc.

Sorry, marcnet. I cound't find your email address.

I write here and attach a zip file that includes all the files you asked.

HiMDRenderer_01.jpg, HiMDRenderer_02.jpg: HiMDRenderer listing

All Japanese and Korean characters are displayed as unreadable code.

SonicStage_screenshot_01.jpg, SonicStage_screenshot_02.jpg: SonicStage 4.3 Asia Version (Korean)

Every character looks ok, but Kanji (Japanese simplified Chinese characters) displays as ?.

This is normal since my system works on Korean Windows XP SP2.

Kanji is a little bit different from simplified Chinese.

In Korea, traditional Chinese characters are used, mainly Korean used though.

***.HMA: from HMDHIFI folder

except one big chunk, ****.ATDATA.

screen_shots.zip

Edited November 21, 2007 by phish

[marcnet]

Thanks for that. My program currently only handles (and assumes) ASCII track names. All the lists and controls of HIMDRenderer are also ASCII based. In order to handle the korean / chinese / jap character sets I need to convert HIMDRenderer to use unicode based strings.