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Sonicstage 3.1 (installation Problems)

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uri75

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As many of you out there, I was also loosing my mind with installation of SonicStage. I just got my MZ-NH700 with SonicStage 2.0 CD. I got in the airport shop in Rome and on the way home I spent a night at friend's house where we installed the CD on his WinXP. Everything worked fine.

I come home and install it on my WinXp and while installation went smoothly each time I kept getting that error about database being corrupted. Simple Burner worked fine though. I tried everything I could find on this forum and nothing helped. My first step was installing SS2 from CD, then upgrade to SS3.1 from sony website, then running CSRepair tool, then doing that MDAC.INF repair.. still exactly the same problem each time.

Then finally I decided to do it by the numbers and uninstalled everything as described on this forum (sorry I'm too anoyed right now to hunt for links) and install stand alone SS3.1 downloaded from this forum. Again no change. But then I noticed one thing in the instructions for complete removal of all the Sony stuff. I have SP1 and I should have SP2, which I'm reluctant to install for various reasons. I do some digging with no success until I decided to run CSRepair again where I noticed that there's a newer version of MDAC available at Microsoft. So I download it from the link provided in CSRepair, install it and suddenly everythin works fine.

So it seems you don't really need SP2, what you *do* need is latest version of MDAC, which can be installed separately.

I hope this helps to some of you!

Great forum BTW. I own MZ-R50 since 1997 and NH700 is my second one and I'm really excited finally doing faster then realtime transfers from PC to MD and of course about removable storage options. The latter actually workes flawlessly from the get go. smile.gif Too bad u can't use MP3s directly. SS seems to be quite a hassle! :I

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Welcome to MDCF!

Thanks for sharing and I'm glad that it works out at the end.

Hmm I was to excited to actually try using the darn thing and now it seems I passed only the initial problem of running the SS only to find out it doesn't recognize my MD. Also only a few imported MP3s play in SS. Others just load for 10sec and then stop with no error.

I'll look around if somebody had similar problems...

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Hmm I was to excited to actually try using the darn thing and now it seems I passed only the initial problem of running the SS only to find out it doesn't recognize my MD. Also only a few imported MP3s play in SS. Others just load for 10sec and then stop with no error.

I'll look around if somebody had similar problems...

Some members have resolved the recognition issue by installing one version of SonicStage 3.1 over the other. The Mp3 issues you experienced thus far is likely due to VBR incompatibility. Run a search within the forum accordingly for further details.

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tnx, I'll do that.

Hopefully the most pesky issues with this will be resolved in future versions of SS or some other software will come out.

UPDATE:

Luckily I have another rearly used PC (PII/333) with Win98 where I installed SS2.0 from bundled CD and everything works like a charm on the first try! It seems there's some WinXP issues (my main PC is Pentium IV / 2.8GHz) with SS software and MD recognition within SS. I might try updating SS2 to SS3.1 on Win98, but I'm reluctant doing that - why fix if it ain't broken. smile.gif At least I solved problem with transfering music files to MD.

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