Himd Sony Vs. Mac

[Mr Sim]

I am the some what proud owner of a sony HiMD recorder (note: the only good sony product I can think of) specificaly I own the NZ700 (base model yes but I don't really care about spending more for an am/fm) the player is great and have I don't a single problem with it (except a bit of a factory defect but that can wait for another time) anyhoo the problem is Sonic Stage despite the fact that this is a poorly set up program my biggest issue is trying to load music onto my HiMD using Mac OSX an operating system not supported by SS and I am forced to go to my friends house or my moms work to get music. It isn't a driver problem in fact only problem is myself not having a program on mac capable of converting Wave or Mp3 to HMA (Atrac 3+). gtg but does anyone have a solution to my problem.

[dex Otaku]

I am the some what proud owner of a sony HiMD recorder (note: the only good sony product I can think of) specificaly I own the NZ700 (base model yes but I don't really care about spending more for an am/fm) the player is great and have I don't a single problem with it (except a bit of a factory defect but that can wait for another time) anyhoo the problem is Sonic Stage despite the fact that this is a poorly set up program my biggest issue is trying to load music onto my HiMD using Mac OSX an operating system not supported by SS and I am forced to go to my friends house or my moms work to get music.  It isn't a driver problem in fact only problem is myself not having a program on mac capable of converting Wave or Mp3 to HMA (Atrac 3+).  gtg  but does anyone have a solution to my problem.

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Petition Sony, again, for Mac support.

Or - liscense the technology for Sony, and make the support yourself.

Or - illegally backward-engineer their technology, and make the support yourself.

Not really much for choices, are there.

I wish Sony would just give up on the PC-centric thing. Their market would widen considerably, IMO, if they opened certain parts of their DRM standard et al, or at least made modules that would enable software writers on other OS platforms to make music library managers that could access the HiMD [and netMD] without anyone having to break copyright or patent laws in the process. It would also open the door to better HiMD/netMD compatible software on the PC.