Drag 'n drop Backup All formats

[1kyle]

Finally (provided you've installed SS 3.2 and DON'T have any purchased DRM'ed Music) the .OMA files are really Drag'n drop.

You don't need the SS backup any more so you can just copy your actual music (.OMA) files to DVD or wherever -- split them up across different disks etc etc.

For writing to DVD you can either burn an ISO DVD-ROM with Nero or use some packet writing software like InCD. The disadvantage of burning a DVD-ROM is that you need to burn a whole DVD at once (4.7 / 8.4 GB depending on Single / Dual Layer standard).

Using programs like InCD makes your DVD like a "Hard Disk" so this is where the "Drag 'n Drop comes in --use Windows explorer to copy and paste the files to your DVD.

This is a much better idea than having to have a whole Backup library on disk and need validation every time you restore it.

(I don't need a 70 GB disk backup library any more).

You can import these into ANY library on ANY PC without having to delete and recover the whole library.

I've now got my whole library archived on to 8 D/L (dual Layer) discs.

Note --you still need SS however to burn to MD -- pity they didn't go the whole hog and allow Drag 'n drop direct to MD.

Anyway it's a HUGE improvement over what went before --and also makes backups a lot easier.

This only works for NON PURCHASED NON DRM'ED Music

I never bother with " ICHOONES" or CONNECT music store -- I only use CD's or my own recorded music.

Please BEFORE you try this yourselves backup your library on the Old way just in case you get problems on your particular system --note when you set up otions for SS 3.2 you have to switch off the CD protection otherwise you will be "DRM'ED" from accessing your own music.

Also as said above this won't work for PURCHASED MUSIC

-- another reason not to use those services and get proper CD's instead.

Cheers

-K

Edited August 25, 2005 by 1kyle

[Keith]

Isn't there still a problem with mic recordings? Didn't I read somewhere that SS3.2 still put DRM on these recordings when uploaded?

Keith

[ROMBUSTERS]

You will still need SonicStage to conver them to wav format if thats what you mean

[Keith]

No - I was thinking that if the mic recordings still have DRM, you can't back them up using drag&drop. In fact, you couldn't move them at all without using the SS back-up tool.

Actually, I don't keep my recordings in SS so I'm not that fussed. But if I'm right, someone could get caught out following this method.

Keith

[tommypeters]

Well, I don't know the best way of doing it since I haven't done any mic recordings on my Hi-MD yet - but an analogue mic recording could always be uploaded to the PC and converted to WAV. Then it's DRM free but if you want to create a DRM free OMA file from it I suppose you have to import WAV from a CD (read somewhere that WAV files on HD still get DRM). You don't need to create a physical CD, just burn to an image file in Nero and mount it with Daemon Tools.

Reservations for this beeing just out of memory and untried by myself.

[1kyle]

Well, I don't know the best way of doing it since I haven't done any mic recordings on my Hi-MD yet - but an analogue mic recording could always be uploaded to the PC and converted to WAV. Then it's DRM free but if you want to create a DRM free OMA file from it I suppose you have to import WAV from a CD (read somewhere that WAV files on HD still get DRM). You don't need to create a physical CD, just burn to an image file in Nero and mount it with Daemon Tools.

Reservations for this beeing just out of memory and untried by myself.

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I've got a couple of WAV files which I made from the Optical output of a JB980 deck which I created from the Optical output of the JBS980 Deck.

I've burned these to a DVD asordinary Windows files test1.wav and test2.wav

I'll see if I can copy these to computer 2 and post what happens.

I haven't got any MIC recordings to test at the moment.

Cheers

-K

[tommypeters]

If you have optical recordings you need to use HiMDRenderer to get them DRM free, Sony's programs does only allow that on analogue recordings.