OpenMG Decoder?

[Recordgrooves]

I know it will not be long before someone creates a program that recovers files that have been blocked by OpenMG to replay on new versions of sonic stage! I have read several horror stories related to this nightmare, probably the worst one was the guy that lost his live recordings of his own band. If any one has any Ideas on how to recover these unplayable files please post here..................and I was wondering how many others with this problem are out there? I have contacted sony about this situation, but at this time they do not have any answers, or atleast they are not sharing them! All they are saying right now is "sorry".

[Syrius]

Blocked? In what sense? Have you tried the OMG To OMA converter? Hi-MD Renderer? Please give us a bit of background.

If the files can still be heard on the Hi-MD, then you can capture them using the realtime method.

[Recordgrooves]

the files are in my hard drive...........................

[Recordgrooves]

Others Trapped!

In the past 6 months ive spent countless hours amassing a 6000+ song library (in high quality sound) on sonic stage. I'm going to school and will be taking a new laptop with me. Is there any reasonable way of transfering that music to the new computer (none of the files claim to have any restrictions). It seems that im screwed but if anyone knows anything i can do short of burning my entire library to music cds and re-ripping the files, please let me know. If i am simply out of luck, any help with finding a new and good program to rip a large library to with good quality and compression and not run into the same problems if and when i ever have to change computers again would be greatly appreciated.

[The Low Volta]

I'm sorry, but I do not really know of a way to help you... even though there might still be a 'hack' developed... but about this:

If i am simply out of luck, any help with finding a new and good program to rip a large library to with good quality and compression and not run into the same problems if and when i ever have to change computers again would be greatly appreciated.

since SS3.2, you can rip without DRM, so that would answer your request I guess...

but I personally would never only keep my entire music collection on 1 HDD... I do not trust computers (and definitely not HDD's) to last that long without any hickups and you only need 1 crash to erase all

so if I think the music is <orth listening to, I use audio CD's (yes even store bought original CD's...I'm somewhat oldfashioned I know ) or Flac on DVD for safekeeping

[A440]

a new and good program to rip a large library to with good quality and compression

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Next time around, convert to mp3 for your archives. Mp3 files can be copied with no restrictions. Someone is bound to point out that there are other compression formats, like .ogg and .flac (which is high-quality and lossless), but not every player supports them.

Instead of using Sonic Stage, rip your files to high-bitrate Mp3 with, among many others, Windows Media Player, Winamp, RealPlayer, MusicMatch, iTunes, etc. or with dbPowerAmp (just a converter, no library).

Then, to get the mp3s onto MD, have SonicStage "import" them as you need them. When SS transfers them it will make .oma (ATRAC) copies. There will be some quality loss, since you are taking a compressed format (mp3) and compressing it again (to ATRAC, unless you have a 2d-generation Hi-MD), but if you start with high-quality mp3s--a bitrate of 192 or higher--then you should have something listenable.

[Keith]

Is there any reasonable way of transfering that music to the new computer (none of the files claim to have any restrictions)?

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Have you tried the SS back-up and restore function? See this thread.

Keith