SS back-up to MD

[heartwood]

Greetings MD junkies,

I've recently converted to HiMD after many years of happy and healthy MD addiction. Gone are the simple days of SP mode .... HiMD is great though. Thanks for all the help members of this forum have provided.

I've had an RH-10 for a few months now and am happy with what it and Sonic Stage 3.2 can do for me.

I'm wanting to use my old reformated MD's as backup for some of what I have on the harddrive and of course for general listening.

Here's where my problem seems to be .... If I put some music on a reformated MD from SS as a "back-up", delete the origional music then try to upload back into SS, it won't let me. SS says "tracks that do not exist in my library are selected...." (I know) and asks if I want to delete them from the MD. (Not at all, thanks.) The same thing happens if the music is origionally from a CD or a line in recording on the RH-10.

This doesn't make sense to me ..... it seems like I should be able to store music on HiMD's and put it back on the computer when I want. Can anyone help? What am I missing.

Thanks.

[KJ_Palmer]

Hi. Unfortuntely Sonictstage doesn't allow most transfers from Hi-MD to PC. Copyright restrictions and all. The only ones it does allow are Hi-MD analogue recordings made via line in or mic-in. If you want to keep backups to save hard drive space you can use the SS backup tool (Tools-Backup up my library) to some external media, or (probably safer) archive your stuff directly to CD as Wav/MP3 etc. or keep the original CD.