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Hi all!

I have installed SonicStage 4. This wunderfol software hangs while getting CD-Infos from the web. But I can't stop SS from getting the Infos. When I start SS it works for the first say 5sek and then it hangs. I have it on my laptop aswell and here I don't have a problem. It connected to the net and got all the CD-Infos. It is hard to believe, that it has anything to do with a) the CD-Info part and B) anti-virus program (as it works on my laptop...). I have a XP2600+, 1GB RAM, IDE-HD, NVidia graphics (FX5900). Running apps: WIN XP SP2, F-Secure 2006, iTunes. Really not much. In this forum I read about using old NVIDIA drivers. But they all seemed to have different problems.

Does anyone have a clue, how I can make SS to work?

Many thanx in advance...

PS: Is there still only SS for transfering music from PC to MD? Really and truly, this software is one of the worst written software titles I have ever seen. I just can't get it, why SONY are simply not able to get a good, solid Software to work. This way, they will never be able to atract MD to new people. MD could be so much better, if...

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Anyway, I just tried old drivers (55.72) but that didn't work...

Hi all!

I have installed SonicStage 4. This wunderfol software hangs while getting CD-Infos from the web. But I can't stop SS from getting the Infos. When I start SS it works for the first say 5sek and then it hangs. I have it on my laptop aswell and here I don't have a problem. It connected to the net and got all the CD-Infos. It is hard to believe, that it has anything to do with a) the CD-Info part and B) anti-virus program (as it works on my laptop...). I have a XP2600+, 1GB RAM, IDE-HD, NVidia graphics (FX5900). Running apps: WIN XP SP2, F-Secure 2006, iTunes. Really not much. In this forum I read about using old NVIDIA drivers. But they all seemed to have different problems.

Does anyone have a clue, how I can make SS to work?

Many thanx in advance...

PS: Is there still only SS for transfering music from PC to MD? Really and truly, this software is one of the worst written software titles I have ever seen. I just can't get it, why SONY are simply not able to get a good, solid Software to work. This way, they will never be able to atract MD to new people. MD could be so much better, if...

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I suspect its your firewall blocking it. I can have problems through the firewall at work. I reckon it just times out. Mind you other tagging software seems to be slow through the same firewall so I can't blame SS. At home SS works perfectly. To be honest I've never really had a problem with it.

Experiment with your firewall. Turn it off for a minute and see if SS works ok. Don't forget to turn it back on through. Then find out how to reconfigure your AV/Firewall software.

I don't really have a problem using SS. Its not exactly a complex application, but agreed it has, and has had way too many bugs for such a simple app. I can only assume there are little or no resources assigned to it. Pity. But it gets the job done.

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Thank you very much for your posts. I've reinstalled the software, applied the cddb patch, but still unchanged. I very much appreciate your help... I don't think, that is has anything todo with the cddb and getting the CD Info.

I keep on trying and searching...

I believe, that SS has some (many??) problems with certain other software titles, codecs, ID3 (at least I read about this here in the forum). I haven't found an incompalibility list yet. Maybe it doesn't like other mp3 software? Does anybody know, if such a list exists? This would make problem solving -not only for me- a little easier. I have Mediaplayer 10, JetAudio 6, iTunes 6, divx, Realplayer, tunebite, MediaConnect and Napster installed. Could it be, that these programms interfere with SS? As I don't won't to (un)-install unneccessarily, maybe somebody knows, if there is a problem with one of these titles.

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I disabled the firewall, I tried the patch and I have uninstalled all other mp3 software apart from MediaPlayer and SS of course. As mentioned above, I tried an older Nvidia driver. I have reinstalled SS (with AV und FW turned off). Upto now, no changes whatsoever. The good thing is, that it hangs virtually at the same point every time I start the software. So there must be some type of conflict. Does SS has a logfile anywhere??

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Ok, I have found a solution. I have uninstalled SS4 und installed 3.4 which was working without any problems. As SS4 had some kind of problem with the CD-Info I deleted the database, uninstalled SS3.4 and installed SS4 again. However, SS4 is at last working. Is it only me having this problem??

Anyways, all is fine now.

SONY: PLEASE improve SonicStage or ar least open MD for other software, which is much cheaper to realise.

THANX to all of you trying to help!!

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