Mz-n10 Recording Trouble

[wom]

Hi Everyone

I'm having a problem with my MZ-N10. Very very occasionally sonicstage will transfer songs to my unit, but 99% of the time it keeps saying "no disc inserted".

Now the unit itself can play discs I've recorded in the past with no problems what so ever.

Could it be that I need a new charger cradle?

Could it be a loose wire somewhere in the unit?

Windows detects that the player is connected fine, and I have updated sonicstage to 3.1.

Thanks

[1kyle]

Hi Everyone

I'm having a problem with my MZ-N10. Very very occasionally sonicstage will transfer songs to my unit, but 99% of the time it keeps saying "no disc inserted".

Now the unit itself can play discs I've recorded in the past with no problems what so ever.

Could it be that I need a new charger cradle?

Could it be a loose wire somewhere in the unit?

Windows detects that the player is connected fine, and I have updated sonicstage to 3.1.

Thanks

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I still use one of these regularly -- still a great piece of kit.

SS 3.1 works fine with this -- the USB connection is actually the same as is used in the newer HI-MD unit MZ-NH1.

Sometimes the USB connection is not that great so check that --and also ensure that MD simple burner is not running as this will start up as soon as it detects any type of MD unit connected to the computer -- you'll probably see a message like "No audio device in CD" as it is expecting you to rip a CD.

Switch off the any automatic start --- for example I think one of the options in SS is to start every time an ATRAC device is connected.

Finally remove and re-insert the USB into the computer --.

I'm using Windows XP pro with sp2 applied and SS 3.1 and mostly have no trouble at all apart from the fiddly USB connection on the device.

Cheers

-K

[wom]

Thanks for the reply.

I've just upgraded from 2.x as I was having the trouble back then too. I thought 3.1 might fix it, but no luck. That's why I thought it might be a simple hardware problem such as the usb cable.

I hadn't thought of trying the optical cable link from the stereo until just before, so I will have to give that a go tonight. Hopefully it will be just in need of a new usb cable or at worst a new charger cradle.

[wom]

Well it records with absolutely no problems with the optical cable, so I'm going to assume that it's either the usb cable or the charger cradle itself.

Good thing there's a Sony shop 5 minutes away from work.

Thanks