msquared Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Hey yall! Well no worries here about losing another MD addict... I am hooked on this format. Just to get a dig in.. I know someone with a (fruit)player and the integrated battery died after 2 years. only viable solution was to buy another. I will stick with my MZ-NH600D thanks very much. I even hae an MZ-G750 that I cannot bring myself to part with yet. On to a recent discovery. I have a wireless network that I'm running and I would dearly love to be able to plug in my 600D to the laptop and load music that way. however the hard drive is only a 20gb. I tried to point my database to the main footprint computer in the house running 1TB of hd space to save the 14gb on the laptop but could not get it to load the files from the house server. is there any chance that sony would consider making a home database accessible from the SS software so that all the machines in the house could share the same database of music? or is there a way to do it and I am just not seeing it? Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 is there a way to do it and I am just not seeing it? I believe this is possible if you employ a VAIO system (desktop/notebooks) throughout your household; and via an exclusive VAIO software called VAIO Media. For further info about this software: click hereI have a friend that employs such a network and will get him to drop a few comments later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 or as a dirty workaround you could make sure all your atrac3/3+ files have no DRM then store them in a network folder. you'd probably have to copy the files from the network folder to the local hard drive then drop them into sonicstage, transfer then delete off the laptop to maintain disk space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaiofreak Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 I use VAIO Media on my VAIOs to share music, photos and video on my wireless network. And as someone stated above, DRM music cannot be streamed over your network, which really sucks because I have some hefty library bought from Sony Connect. I also utilize VAIO Roomlink (VGP-MR200) that is connected to my Hi-Fi receiver and 5.1 speaker system in the living room and by using the Roomlink I can stream and listen to any non-DRM music files.It has a neat GUI as well.Let me know if you have any other questions.P.S. I am sure there are other applications besides VAIO Media that can handle your music distribution over the network, just do some Googling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msquared Posted March 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 I use VAIO Media on my VAIOs to share music, photos and video on my wireless network. And as someone stated above, DRM music cannot be streamed over your network, which really sucks because I have some hefty library bought from Sony Connect. I also utilize VAIO Roomlink (VGP-MR200) that is connected to my Hi-Fi receiver and 5.1 speaker system in the living room and by using the Roomlink I can stream and listen to any non-DRM music files.It has a neat GUI as well.Let me know if you have any other questions.P.S. I am sure there are other applications besides VAIO Media that can handle your music distribution over the network, just do some Googling.Currently I am running a wireless router from netgear wg614 and a wireless multimedia MP101 also from netgear. I have a protected internal lan as well as a file sharing server for the media. I can play any music file from any pc/laptop on the home stereo etc. I am running Windows 2000 on all the machines currnetly. I am looking at the option of stringing all of the hard drives together as a single stack in order to get around the network share. I was able to map the drives from the main server as extended drives of the laptop. Where I still run into problems is when it comes to the physical file. I was able to share just the "OMGFILES" and the "OPTIMIZED FILES" folders and was able to get the music transferred to my 600D its a crude work around. I may have to change the systems around so that I run a single sonic stage from the server and have it as an application that runs on each device on the net. Its just a hobby at this point. I want to thank those of you who responded. It gave me some ideas to look at. I am not however willing to swap out all my machines for vaio's just yet. not that much a fan of sony products hehe.. Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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