SimonMackay Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hi everyone!I have put most of my CD collection on my PC's hard disk for personal use (no BitTorrent / Gnutella here!) and have built up some playlists based on this collection using Windows Media Player 10. All files are stored as WMA files.As well, I am considering the purchase of a Hi-MD walkman, especially the MZ-NHF800 and want to know what I can do about "dumping" playlists or selected songs to Hi-MD.Would SonicStage in its current version or SimpleBurner allow one to "dump" just the contents of a user-selected Media Player playlist to Hi-MD -- render the WMA files as ATRAC3 files and make them to the Hi-MD? Also, would the second-generation Hi-MD units that can do MP3s be able to natively play WMA files?With regards,Simon Mackay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 the 2nd gen probably wont play WMASonicStage cannot use playlists however you could group all your 'playlist' songs into one 'collection' and transfer that over, its different but more or less works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksandbergfl Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hi everyone!I have put most of my CD collection on my PC's hard disk for personal use (no BitTorrent / Gnutella here!) and have built up some playlists based on this collection using Windows Media Player 10. All files are stored as WMA files.Simon MackayIt is my understanding the with WMP 10, the Sony HiMD unit should appear as a "portable playback device". I haven't tried but in theory you should be able to export your playlists to your HiMD from WMP. You still have to install SonicStage on your PC, so that Sony's OMG digital rights management is on your PC. I really hate to download WMP10 on my PC, but maybe I'll give a try sometime and post my results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksandbergfl Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 It is my understanding the with WMP 10, the Sony HiMD unit should appear as a "portable playback device". I really hate to download WMP10 on my PC, but maybe I'll give a try sometime and post my results.←I am wrong. There isn't a single Sony device on the list of supported portable audio devices.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...alldevices.aspxWMP will play OMG/OMA files however..... not that it's much help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony wong Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Just heard today some people say MS and Sony is on the opposite sidewould it be truth?(MS make HDCD, Sony never mention about it.....etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Just heard today some people say MS and Sony is on the opposite sidewould it be truth?(MS make HDCD, Sony never mention about it.....etc)←HDCD is jsut a slight upgrade to the current CD market and one which doesnt even come close to covering it, most CDs are not HDCD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalo Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 (edited) the 2nd gen probably wont play WMAWhat are you talking about? Go to http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-RH10.html Manufacturer's Feature List: HI-MD WALKMAN with large Organic EL Display MP3 / Atrac3plus direct playback SonicStage for easy music management and unlimited check outs of your favourite tracks Supports all popular digital audio compression formats: ATRAC / MP3 / WMA / WAV New type remote control Record from multiple source: USB-in / Mic-in / Analogue-in / Digital-in Extremely fast music transfer from and to PC: 1 CD in less than 40 seconds Capable of storing audio, video and data files on your HI-MD disc (Word, Powerpoint, ATRAC, MP3, JPEG, MPEG, etc) Incl. Charging stand, AC Power Adpater Long battery life of 32 hours G-PROTECTION Jog Proof Transfer up to 45 CDs onto a single 1GB Hi-MD disc (with Atrac3Plus compression). Edited February 23, 2005 by kalo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksandbergfl Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 What are you talking about? Go to http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-RH10.html Manufacturer's Feature List: HI-MD WALKMAN with large Organic EL Display MP3 / Atrac3plus direct playback SonicStage for easy music management and unlimited check outs of your favourite tracks Supports all popular digital audio compression formats: ATRAC / MP3 / WMA / WAV Saying that the HiMD supports WMA is not the same as saying Windows Media Player supports the HiMD. The original post was about using WMP10's playlists.. and if it's possible to get them onto the HiMD. If WMP10 supported HiMD as a "portable audio device", then this would be possible. But, WMP10 has no support for Sony devices. If you want to get music onto your HiMD, you have to use SonicStage.SonicStage will, even now, "support" WMA and MP3 -- import a WMA/MP3 file into your SonicStage library, convert it to ATRAC, and copy it to your HiMD player. That's what they mean in the article you quoted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 SonicStage 2.0 supports WMP10 generated "smart" playlist, as so long as you remember to export it as a M3U file. You then import that M3U file, and let SonicStage transcode and upload.But it still ends at supporting, not fully native transfers, yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 you contradicted yourselfWhat are you talking about? Manufacturer's Feature List: MP3 / Atrac3plus direct playback SonicStage for easy music management and unlimited check outs of your favourite tracks Supports all popular digital audio compression formats: ATRAC / MP3 / WMA / WAV ←im pretty sure this means that the device will be able to nativly play back MP3/Atrac/Atrac3/Atrac3+ media (i.e. direct playback) and that SonicStage supports all popular formats to transcode to Atrac (same as it has always said).if you go to a store a look at the box of a netMD it'll say MP3 compatible but what they mean is SS can handel it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tony wong Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 What are you talking about? Go to http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-RH10.html Manufacturer's Feature List: HI-MD WALKMAN with large Organic EL Display MP3 / Atrac3plus direct playback SonicStage for easy music management and unlimited check outs of your favourite tracks Supports all popular digital audio compression formats: ATRAC / MP3 / WMA / WAV New type remote control Record from multiple source: USB-in / Mic-in / Analogue-in / Digital-in Extremely fast music transfer from and to PC: 1 CD in less than 40 seconds Capable of storing audio, video and data files on your HI-MD disc (Word, Powerpoint, ATRAC, MP3, JPEG, MPEG, etc) Incl. Charging stand, AC Power Adpater Long battery life of 32 hours G-PROTECTION Jog Proof Transfer up to 45 CDs onto a single 1GB Hi-MD disc (with Atrac3Plus compression).←pay cautionif u go the minidisc.org main page, u will find these information already gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 It'll be back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 that it will, when the Sony lawers stop ringing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 supports = can encodei think you need 'playback'for example from hd3 at amazon# 20 GB Digital Music Player stores 13,000 tracks# Plays back in MP3 and ATRAC Audio Formats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerodB Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 (edited) Just heard today some people say MS and Sony is on the opposite side.would it be truth?(MS make HDCD, Sony never mention about it.....etc)O/T I know, but own a few HDCDs - For all of them except one, I didn't even know that these were HDCDs. They were not maked differently, just the regular albums you buy from the music store.All of these discs are released by Sony owned record companies.Sorry tony, nice theory, but it doesn't work.BTW, MS don't make HDCDs - they didn't even event them! They just bought out the company who developed the technology. Edited February 25, 2005 by zerodB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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