Unreliability Of Sonic Stage

[A440]

Well, my Sonic Stage 3.0 is flipping out.

Uploaded a three-hour, 55-track concert with that as the sole foreground app on the computer. During the upload, SS stopped three times and generated unspecified errors. After the first time, I made sure it hadn't messed up the original disc, rebooted, reopened SS and started uploading at the next track. I used TotalRecorder to get the tracks where it stopped.

But while editing to burn the CD, I have just discovered that those weren't the only screwed-up tracks. Like the tracks it stopped on, a few of the other tracks, showing no discernible pattern, were timestamped (on both upload and disc) and, in SS, showed the correct length. But they only held 5-20 seconds of song before stopping dead. Converting them to .wav as an experiment, they were only a few hundred kilobytes; the silence was not part of the track, even though SS showed the correct length.

Once I had grabbed a missed track via TotalRecorder, I tried uploading it again. Erased with no warning. That part of SonicStage never stops working.

They were all Hi-SP, which has been giving other people problems too, I see.

Sony Support? "We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Perhaps I should be grateful that it's leaving the disc intact when it botches the upload.

[ozpeter]

With most computer problems, you try changing a few things (eg turn off system sounds) and try the procedure again, thus gradually pinning down where the problem lies. But with SS you can't do that for obvious reasons... which makes pinning down these kinds of troubles more than somewhat difficult!