insrc Posted September 24, 2005 Report Share Posted September 24, 2005 My RH10 wasn't able to transfer in SS two tracks out of seven. I upgraded to SS3.2. That didn't help. For some reason it can't even play the tracks in SS (I wanted to use Total Recorder), it gives "access error". It still plays fine on the minidisc unit itself! I had left nothing to do but put a track mark on the problem track. That didn't help at all.I know from this forum that in my situation I can't do anything. Minidisc is unreliable, everyone knows it. I thought I would be able to use Total Recorder method to copy tracks to PC, but I can't. But what is weird that I still can play the tracks on my RH10 itself just fine! Grrrr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted September 25, 2005 Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 I know from this forum that in my situation I can't do anything. Sure you can. You can record them analog in real time: out of the headphone jack, into the computer (ideally via Line In if you have that jack) with Audacity or Total Recorder. You'll have a slight quality loss, but you'll have the tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insrc Posted September 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 I knew someone would suggest this. That's not a digital transfer and there might be some quality loss, though I would try that for sure if only I had the line-in on my laptop (or maybe mic-in would work? I think it may add some noise). Or I could play it out loud and use a microphone, because right now I don't have a wire for phones-out line-in thing.Ok, now I wonder is it a common practice to use non-digital transfers for hi-md units? I see people complain a lot about access errors, which I'm almost sure is due to the software limitations that sony did on purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insrc Posted September 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 (edited) I reinstalled Sonic Stage complitely to give it the last try.Now for all my discs (2 of them) it simply says:"Cannot use this disc as an audio disc because it was initialized by a program other than SonicStage. Click Properties on the Device/Media panel and initialize the disc to use it as an audio disc".Initialization will delete all data on disc.Both discs were formatted by sony minidisc unit and used to record live music through line-in.It is clear now that SonicStage is only for buying music from sony connect and uploading it to minidisc. Anything recorded through line or mic in is not supposed to be transferred to PC. Beware of this before you buy it. Edited September 25, 2005 by insrc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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