HiMD live mic recording destroyed when using SonicStage

[Mattias]

Hello!

I recently got a MZ-RH10 and have made some successfully live recordings with it and also converting them to wave files using SS.

However, when I was going to upload one of my latest concert recordings, SS threw an error message after it had completed the first of 10 tracks. Now the message "Cannot read or record disc" comes upp in the mz-rh10´s display.

I can still get the .HMA files from the disc using Explorer so the disc is not erased.

I have read a couple of threads of people having the same problem.

What can you do to get the encrypted data on the disc?

I have tried using HiMDRenderer and HiMDExtract and managed to get the tracks as .omg files but I can´t read them because of the encryption.

I have read in some threads that you could you use WinHex (or some other program) to manually paste the atrac-data to a fake omg file. Does somebody know anything about this?

There must be a way to recover the data, even if I have to send the disc to Sony. They should have a tool for decrypting this.

Please answer if you now how to do with this. The recording is a concert made by a band I´m playing with and the the other band members are going to be really angry if I´m not solving this

Thanks!

/Mattias

[ozpeter]

Which version of SS?

[Mattias]

I used SS 3.0 when the error ocurred.

I know that SS 3.3 exists, but I used the CD that came with player because I didn´t have an Internet connection at that time.

/Mattias

[A440]

I don't know if this will work, but have you tried connecting the USB again and just playing the disc with SonicStage? Sometimes SonicStage is able to read the disc in the unit when the unit itself won't.

Try installing SS 3.3 first.

If you can play back the disc with SonicStage, then you can do a realtime recording with TotalRecorder. Look for the TotalRecorder section of this:

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=6330

[Mattias]

I have installed SS 3.3 but get the same error message. "Cannot use this disc as an audio disc because it was initialized by a program other than SonicStage"

Is there no way to get the audio of the .hma file? Or get the .omg files to work that I extracted with HiMDExtract? What about sending the disk to Sony?

[dunebug81]

I have the same problem. I recorded a show and on the disc (Memorex 80 min recorded in PCM) had 3 tracks on it. I deleted the first track off the disc via SS 3.3 and it went fine. Then I renamed the 2 other tracks and went to upload them and i got an error saying they cant be read or played. I hit stop and took out the disc and put it back in. Now sonic stage doesnt even show the 2 discs any more, but it does now that there is space being used since there is only 14mb free on the disc. Using windows explorer i can see the hma files but im sure are worthless due to DRM.

Any thoughts?

[imak]

Have yoy tried with other discs?

If you get the same message, Uninstall the SS completely, delete any registry entries and reinstall.

Of course, first of all, backup your valuable tracks with Sonicstage's backup tool.

For a complete unintallation look at the pinned topics into this forum.

I insist to delete very carefully any registry values referring to SonicStage and Sony, (if you feel unfamiliar with this ask a more experienced to help you), as this helped alot with the same or similar problems.

My personal opinion is that SS 3.2 is more stable and error free than 3.3.

Best wishes,

Ioannis

P.S. What is HiMDExtract? I have never heard of it again.