Sonicstage Upload Difficulties

[malleable]

I have a NH900 Hi-MD. Bought the thing before Sony would allow hi-speed uploading, so any analog recordings I made, I transferred through my sound card in real time. (Slow, yes, but it worked.) Now that the software fix is out, I've got some stuff I want to upload to my computer via USB, but I can't see to get it to work.

I recently downloaded SonicStage 3.0. I've got some sound files I recorded from a tape deck onto my MD. (Of course, I want to get them into my computer, transfer them to .wav, and burn them to CD.) When I plug my MD up to the computer via USB, the unit's screen says PC--MD, and further up in the right corner says "Hi-MD." When I open SonicStage and click the transfer button, it says in the window, "Device/media not connected." Though, when I open up the System settings under the control panel of my PC, the Device Manager lists my MD under "Disk Drives" as well as "Universal Serial Bus Controllers." When I click on the My Computer icon on my desktop, and on the corresponding drive letter for my MD, it lists a folder "Hmdhifi," with files in it, though all with the extension of .hma.

What's my issue? (I'm using Windows 98SE.)

[dex Otaku]

First: have you tried SS's help?

Second: are you in the transfers window, and do you have the HiMD selected? If you do, the right-hand side of the SS screen will have the contents of the HiMD listed.

[malleable]

First: have you tried SS's help?

Second: are you in the transfers window, and do you have the HiMD selected?  If you do, the right-hand side of the SS screen will have the contents of the HiMD listed.

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I'm gonna need you to be a bit more specific, friend. (yes, I've tried the Help, but no luck.) I gave an in depth, accurate description of my problem, and it seems you are asking me questions about something I already answered.

[dex Otaku]

I'm gonna need you to be a bit more specific, friend. (yes, I've tried the Help, but no luck.) I gave an in depth, accurate description of my problem, and it seems you are asking me questions about something I already answered.

Apologies - this is a consequence of skimming the post. In the future, it would help to separate different points on lines of their own [i.e. use paragraphs rather than one big block of text] for readability's sake.

Still.. Aha!

I should have noted the part about Win98SE before .. Win98 itself lacks support for USB mass storage devices, which is why SS installs drivers for the HiMD [both in mass-storage mode and the "Personal Audio Drivers"]. It sounds like the personal audio drivers might be missing on your system.

You should also check what version of DirectX you have installed. I believe SS 3.0 requires DX 9.0c at the least.

The only other advice I can really offer is for you to remove and reinstall SS, unfortunately - unless you happen to have a copy of the SS 3.0 disc handy to try and manually install just the HiMD device+audio drivers. You can try installing the personal audio drivers from your original CD, but this will downgrade your driver version and would likely cause more problems than it might solve.

I'll see if I can find a link to just the drivers somewhere.

As a curiosity note, have you tried waiting to plug the HiMD in -after- you've opened SS to see if it makes any difference?

edit:

The personal audio driver from SS 2.3 can be found here:

http://www.sonydigital-link.com/DNA/common...p?l=en&v=&m=pad

I am still looking for the version included with 3.0.

edit:

Sony's support sites are useless shite. I'm surprised that I even found the above [on Sony Europe]; the US site lacks any links to PAD at all - only links to the SS 3.0 installer. I'm still looking.

edit: I should have looked closer to home first. From this post:

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=9058

I believe this is the download you should try [note the install instruction with it]:

[Driver]

version = 1.0.09.11300

path = http://qw-cx-ssd.sonypictures.com/download...mmon/driver.zip

execution = setup.exe /NoAMI

Edited April 10, 2005 by dex Otaku