Possible Alternative to Invalid OpenMG Rights

[fergo]

Hi Everyone,

First time poster, brand new MD user! My sister copied, not backed up, her music collection from her Sony HDD player before going overeseas onto my PC. As it turns out, I cant even play these files on my PC using SS3.2. I get the invalid rights management error message and have been reading many forums and searching the net for alternative ways of getting around this. Even HiMD renderer would not work as the SS could not play the files. I know this is a problem for a lot of people and have read countless forums how they will have to rerip all their cd collections.

Apparently Sony knows of a program that can bypass the copyright info, but for obvious reasons, wont tell. Does anyone know what this is. I cant seem to find one in Google yet.

I read the following post and was curious if anyone else knows if this works or if it doesn't. It basically using Real Player with the omg codec.

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Hey guys,

I read a lot about people's problems with Sony's NetMD software.

I had the same problems you already discussed here using Sonic Stage and older versions of the blue openMG software - performance lags, copy protection, ID3 tags...

Finally I found a very nice solution to get rid of Sony's terrible software:

Real Player V.10

The transfer to my NET MD Sony MZ N10 is nice and fast. Software completely understands all my ID3-tags (what Sonic Stage never did...) and also, what is very important for me as also a user of iTunes - the real player understands ALL mpeg audio formats, including the mpeg4 files iTunes sometimes uses to import.

So get rid of Sony's software use real player (I took real player 10 standard version) - you won't find any better alternative out there.

Farewell, mil

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#2 11-17-2004, 11:22 PM

YaWhateva

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I am sorry but could you tell me how this works? I have a Hi-MD MZ-NH600D mini-disc player and sonic stage keeps saying that it cant find the music file for every song i try to transfer. So I did as you suggested and tried Real Player 10, my songs transfer over, but they are not playable on the mini disc player. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

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#3 11-18-2004, 09:42 AM

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Okay, that's the way I did it...

First I installed the sonic stage software (guess V. 1.5) to be sure that all openMG drivers are installed correctly on my system.

Then I installed Real Player 10 (Standard Edition).

Then I went to the Real Player options (in Extras Menu).

Chose 'Devices' and then 'Add new Device'

*I work with the German edition of Real Player, hope I get the translation right*

At this time of course be sure that your MD is connected to the system, via USB I think.

Chose Sony Network Walkman Players from the list and clicked on 'install new device'. Now your player should be activated in the device list.

Also in the player's 'music & library' panel you should see you player.

now go to the 'Burn/Transfer' Panel. On the left side you should see your music library, on the right site you have your MD inventory.

Beneath your music library you see the button 'copy files' and beneath that one you have a button 'configure device'.

Press it and choose the transfer audio quality - I prefer the 132 KBit/s Stereo option. Depends on what you want - better quality, less space.

So after dragging files from my library (left side) into my MD inventory (right side) and pressing the 'copy files' button (beneath the 'music library') transfer starts.

That's all I did and it works perfect. I have a very good audio quality, speedy transfer and complete ID3 tags.

I'm using a Sony Net MD MZ N10 with Sony 74' and 80' MiniDiscs.

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Thanks.

Fergo

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Unfortunately, you're out of luck. Sony won't decrypt for you. The .omg or .oma files are keyed to one machine.

Sony thinks that the first thing a music pirate would do is copy everything to a disc player (at a low bitrate), upload it to a computer, and copy it to another disc player, and the whole point of SonicStage and .omg is to prevent that. Meanwhile they put CD burners in all of their new computers. Contradictory.

I think Real Player worked for NetMD but not Hi-MD. And it won't decrypt either.