swapping tracks with sonicstage + install probs

[mrsean]

hi all! this question is in a couple of parts so i'll try and be as brief as possible, and write it in such a way that may get me the answers quickly.

the bottom line is this; i've got about 60-70 md's that have stuff i've recorded off the radio (sound quality is fine for headphones, which are Sony MDR-CD170; Digital Reference; real nice cans).

what i want to do is wipe the stuff i don't want, & keep the rest. this will result in having lots of discs that have bits and blobs of free space. what i'd like to do is be able to transfer one way or another tracks from 1 md to another with the end result being that i have a lot more blank md's. an example would be i have 3 md's. they have 60 mins recorded on each (i record in LP4 mode). i want to wipe a few mins off each one but THEN have them transferred onto the ONE disc, thus leaving 2 blanks.

the other thing is that i'd rather keep the files as they are as opposed to re-recording them and possibly degrading the quality any further. much like cutting and pasting in computer terms.

1. will sonic stage do this? if so how? if not, what will?

2. before i even get that far, i've d/loaded the sonicstage installer (the 25mb version) and as it installs it throws up "you don't have such and such program" and stops. fair enough. i've so far installed windows media player 7 and windows media player 9 codec but it looks as though it's getting about 2/3-70% of the way and it asks for another thing to d/load. is the only way to get it to install properly is to install, wait for it to say "get this program" get it and go through again & again until it's done? or does some wise person know what order it looks for the programs it needs, so i can get that list, d/load and install them all at once and then it'll work?

i'm running win 98.

sorry for the thesis, and thanks all for any help you provide.

mrsean.

[The Low Volta]

first question:

were all these discs recorded in HiMD mode?

- if not, forget SS, only realtime recording to PC will allow you to do what you want (or perhaps a deck with 2 MD-players or something, but I do not know anyhting about that)

-if so, just run the SS3.2 internet installer... it's much better than SS3.1 and works like a charm... if you can't, just search in the software support section as almost all probs with the standalone installer have been described, but as no one suffered them all I guess, I do not think anyone knows all solutions...

[mrsean]

first question:

were all these discs recorded in HiMD mode?

- if not, forget SS, only realtime recording to PC will allow you to do what you want (or perhaps a deck with 2 MD-players or something, but I do not know anyhting about that)

-if so, just run the SS3.2 internet installer... it's much better than SS3.1 and works like a charm... if you can't, just search in the software support section as almost all probs with the standalone installer have been described, but as no one suffered them all I guess, I do not think anyone knows all solutions...

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no, they weren't done in hi-md mode. sorry about that. i have a mzn-510 and a mds je-440 deck. so it looks like i may have to do a lot of recording onto cd's.

will recording onto hard disk, then re-recording onto md (Lp4 mode) deteriorate the quality to a great degree?

[Christopher]

Definitely. I would recommend you upload what you need to via this method: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070

[mrsean]

thanks for that url, that was the way i thought i'd end up doing if nothing else worked.

[Haybrd]

i'm running win 98.

mrsean.

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Another reason for SS being a pain is that it only runs on Win 98SE I think?

I have it running on WIN 98SE and had to download the new direct X plug in from Microsoft (v9?) and like you Media player 7 and codec 9 etc.

Best of luck with it!