Interviews lost in Orphan DRM files

[hwbeirut]

A friend of mine has this nasty problem with SonicStage/DRM:

he recorded hours of interviews for his PHD on a HiMD, uploaded to his labtop and backed it up as ATTRAC CDs (ouch)

After listening the to those on his computer & finding them alright, he re-used the disks (HiMDs were in short supply back then), i.e. deleted the old interviews, trusting that he had them on CDs AND on his computer.

Now, the computer crashed (guess what make it was...?) and he had 2 get a new one. So when he imported the Interviews into SonicStage on his NEW machine, they would show up... but not play, and he would get an error message saying "wrong permissions". Apparently, these cds can only be played on the machine that made them, not any other... tralala... and this machine does not exist any more ... hooray ... and there goes this poor devil's PHD. Anybody any suggestion so that he doesn't throw himself from a tall building? Is this really unsolveable?

wonders

hwbeirut

[minidisc3]

I never actually burnt an ATRAC CD so I don't know if the files appear as *.OMA or *.OMG files on the CD.

If they do, you can copy them onto the harddrive and convert them to wav files using Marc's HiMD Renderer. You'll find information about this program here:

Marc's HiMD Renderer

Marco

[Sparky191]

If that doesn't work can they be played on a ATRAC CD player? You could then record them off that. An ATRAC CD Player is cheap.

[marcnet]

I never actually burnt an ATRAC CD so I don't know if the files appear as *.OMA or *.OMG files on the CD.

If they do, you can copy them onto the harddrive and convert them to wav files using Marc's HiMD Renderer. You'll find information about this program here:

Marc's HiMD Renderer

Marco

Only if they are playable on the PC. If the Sony DLL's refuse to play the files then there is nothing HIMDRenderer can do to help. Sorry,

[not worth asking]

yeah i'm not sure exactly what you mean by "atrac CD", what file types did you burn and how?

I had / have a similar problem, i was using my university computer to upload recordings as .oma files and converting using marc's renderer. I saved the original raw .oma files to CDR's, and now since the computer has broken they are useless so far. if this is what happened to you too, i don't think there's anything you can do as of yet.

but if you did make an actual atrac CD, yes you should be able to get an atrac discman and copy the audio from the line out of that. Good luck!

[dex Otaku]

Call Sony's customer service department and dog them relentlessly.

Perhaps they can remove the DRM if he sends a copy of the CD to them.

Otherwise, I am not aware of any solution for this at this time.

In the future, do not use OMA as a backup format.