rocklegend Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 A quick question...why can't Sonicstage only convert some mp3's to Atrac even if it's from the same album.For example I'm puting an album that I've ripped from a CD from another program and it's in mp3 format.I want to put the ripped tracks on my Hi-MD (MZ-NH1)...well it puts all the tracks but one and I keep getting a error saying that Sonicstage doesn't support the file format of the track which is strange as it's come from the same Album and it supported all the other tracks...Anyone else have similar problems and if so how did you overcome this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauljones52 Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 A quick question...why can't Sonicstage only convert some mp3's to Atrac even if it's from the same album.For example I'm puting an album that I've ripped from a CD from another program and it's in mp3 format.I want to put the ripped tracks on my Hi-MD (MZ-NH1)...well it puts all the tracks but one and I keep getting a error saying that Sonicstage doesn't support the file format of the track which is strange as it's come from the same Album and it supported all the other tracks...Anyone else have similar problems and if so how did you overcome this?It may be a corrupt mp3 file, i sometimes get that, and i solve it by converting the mp3 to .wav then copying it to atrac. (then delete the .wav file). If you still have the original CD it will be better quality if you rip that straight to atrac in sonicstage (you can deleate the files from your hard drive after you have transfered if you want to save space). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyIvan Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Are they VBR mp3's? I sometimes have a problem with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocklegend Posted January 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Problem solves...I had some corrupt mp3s so I conerted them to PCM using Nero and then to Atrac.Some of the mp3s were ripped from a CD by another program so they weren't illegal or from a P2P program.The mp3s played without any problem but transfering to my Hi-MD unit was difficult.Sony need to get there head out of their arses although SonicStage3.3 is a step in the right direction.My Brother has had more problems with iTunes and his iPod and is returning his iPod for the new Sony Walkman...Anyway guys Happy New Year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 if you ripped the tracks from CD and they are definitely not illegal downloads ... why not simply transfer them to (Hi)MD with simple burner or at least directly rip 'em to atrac/3/+ in SS3.3I mean, if you have got the CDs and you like listening to music and not artifacts etc, why sacrificing SQ with another lossy conversion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocklegend Posted January 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 I don't have CDs of all the music that I own as some of them were bought on Connect and they wouldn't transfer to my Hi-MD.The problem was not with SonicStage 3.3 it was with My Windows XP and now I don't have any problems...It drove me crazy for a while and I just re-installed SonicStage with my Hi-MD plugged into my PC by accident and it just worked after that but before I fixed the problem sometimes it wouldn't transfer tracks even in Atrac...All is well now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted January 6, 2006 Report Share Posted January 6, 2006 (edited) I'm very happy to read that all's working well right now... but still, I guess it's something to consider: if you have the music in non-lossy format, to reconvert from lossy (MP3 or the like) to atrac is really a shame, as the SQ definitely suffers...I know it's a bit more work to rerip the CD's, but with SB (don't really know whether it works with NetMD) it's pretty quick and delivers much better results*edit: sorry, I read your profile which mentiones a NetMD...and kinda read over 'HiMD' mentioned in your post... so if you have 2nd gen HiMD you could always just play the MP3 without conversion which would save the SQ (a bit ) and save a lot of work as wellPS: sorry if I'm still reading your posts wrong...I'm drinking Duvel today Edited January 6, 2006 by The Low Volta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 (edited) Im having this exact same problem and its driving me crazy... I havent disced anything for a while but have just acquired a box of shiny new blue hi-mdsis Matt J's suggestion of converting the mp3 to wav the only way around this? (this has worked so far btw) i dont like all this convertingearlier versions of SS didnt result in this problem... my mp3s are not corrupt, it must be something within SS that thinks they are Edited January 10, 2006 by joseph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eqx Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Hi all!Hopefully I'm writing in the right topic...My SonicStage went mad and I have no ide why. I had SS 3.3 and suddenly it decided not to convert ANY mp3 to ATRAC. Some files can't even be transfered "as is" and they are standard 192kbit 44.1khz 16bit stereo mp3s. I upgraded to SS3.4 but nothing changed. Any time I try to convert - even if the track could be converted before - I get this message:Sonicstage (00000908-7369)Cannot convert the specified track.Possible reasons may include: -the track (files) cannot be found (noway, I've just imported them) -Sonicstage does not support the file format of the track (it's just not possible) -The track is copyrigh protected (it wasn't before, what could have changed?)This makes me really upset. Who has time to always convert every mp3 to wav and then to ATRAC, transfer and then remove the wav?Anybody experienced the same problem? I have XP Pro SP2, no hardware/software changes were made so I don't get it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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