sealguyken Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 Newbie (BIG TIME) here, so parden my ignorance if this question is stupid.My son has MY pc packed full of songs in SS 2.3. He bought himself his own laptop, and downloaded SS 3.3 on it. We spent half the night "backing up" his SS 2.3 Music Library onto an external hard drive, but have been unsuccssful trying to upload that data into his new pc. I tried to "copy" a few onto the external harddrive, but the upload onto his new pc resulted in the same. All of his music backed up on the external hard drive are in folder by number, rather than by name now, and each folder has a subfolder titled 203. When you open the 203 subfolder (from the old pc), it contains a list of songs, each identified with a SS emblem. When you try to open the 203 file from the new pc (remember they are all in the external hard drive), the songs show up without the SS emblem and when you select to play it on the new pc, it tells you that a "license is required". Most of his music was taken from his own personal CD collection, so since he owns the CDs. Is there anyway I can get his "collection" off of my pc and onto his????HHHEEEELLLLPPPP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauljones52 Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 Welcome to the forumsIt may be best to re rip all the CD's in sonicstage 3.3 as this version allows you to rip CD's without copyright protection, this means that if you upgrade in the future you wont have this problem again as they can be copied much the same as mp3's. Songs ripped in sonicstage 2.3 have copyright protection, so they are almost impossible to transfer to another computer. Hope this helps, matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrius Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 Did you use the backup tool, or simply dragged and dropped? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sealguyken Posted January 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 Used the Backup tool right in the SS 2.3 program. Just selected the external hard drive as the source, so we could connect the same external hard drive to the new pc. Also tried to "copy" a file and paste it.... but that resulted in the same. I just don't understand why the external hard drive is full of songs, but will only play when retrived from the old pc with SS 2.3. The same files won't do squat when retrived from the new pc with SS 3.3Originally, we thought problem might be that new pc had SS 2.0, so we upgraded it on th www to 3.3.Putting new CDs on the new pc will be impossible. The CDs he used are well into the 100s and took place over a long span of time. If there's no way to transfer his SS Music Library from one pc to another... I suppose he'll just have accept it.So much for SS being "user-friendly".Thanks for the reply! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 SonicStage doesn't know you're backing up your own library. With a different installation of the program on a different computer, it thinks you're trying to copy someone else's library. And all its encryption and digital-rights paranoia is specifically designed to prevent that due to Sony's copying paranoia. Re-ripping is all you can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidb Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Is it really true you can't transfer your Sonic Stage library to a new PC when you upgrade? I am just about to upgrade my PC and the last thing I want to do is re-rip all my CDs - it took weeks to do them. It would be ridiculous if you couldn't transfer the library. I used SS 3.1 and 3.2 to rip the CDs does that make a difference?If you really can't transfer the library this seems a very big issue and deserves much more attention and prominence in this forum. If I had known this I would have ripped all my CDs to MP3 format first and then imported them.I suppose one way out is to convert all the tracks to MP3 or WAV format? But that takes some time and if you use Sonic Stage it seems you can't select your entire library and leave it to run overnight - you can only select the tracks within one album at a time (I think). Does HiMDrenderer allow coverting several albums at once? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted January 22, 2006 Report Share Posted January 22, 2006 you can there is a "sonicstage backup tool" that requires an equal amount of free space on the hard drive as the library.goto 'tools' -> 'back up my library' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sealguyken Posted January 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2006 That's what we did. The problem is not in backing them up, the problem is getting them off of the external hard drive onto the new computer... after you've backed them up.I think A440's comments are correct.Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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