Devmo Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 Okay, so I've been using SonicStage to transfer songs for the last couple years or so. I've never had a problem with transfers, except for it sometimes saying it wouldn't recognize a filetype (which was weird, since they'd be mp3s like the rest, but whatever). I haven't transferred anything for the last few months, and the last few days, I've been trying to put some diffeent songs on a disc, but it just says an error occurred and stops the transfer after a couple seconds. No details on what the error is, it just stops.What's the deal? Is there any reason for it to just stop working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devmo Posted July 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 Anyone? :| Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 You need to try to isolate the problem a bit. It could be the cord, the unit, the disc or the software. With any of the first three, your test would be to use a different one if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 please read and follow the rules for posting in the software assistance subforums, as A440 says, it is very hard to help without additional info...- does the MD play normally (older discs)? (if not first thing is to remove the battery for a minute then reinsert it to reset the machine)- what does the screen say exactly? what does SS say?- what system specs, other software, ...- MD connected with USB directly or through a hub- etc etc etc... just try to describe the the circumstances as clearly as possible as this simply helps ppl help youa bit off topic, but perhaps useful as well: about the MP3 errors; they can be caused by a faulty ID3 tag as SS only knows how to handle tags constructed totally following the standards and some programs (like among others winamp) are known not to adhere to these standards too strictly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devmo Posted July 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 - does the MD play normally (older discs)? (if not first thing is to remove the battery for a minute then reinsert it to reset the machine)Yup, I was just playing one yesterday.- what does the screen say exactly? what does SS say?The screen on the MD player says PC to MD, so I know they're connected. SS just says there was an error during the transfer, it doesn't give any details. :|- what system specs, other software, ...I have an older PC, it's 800MHz and has WinME on it. Yeah, I've heard all about WinME. - MD connected with USB directly or through a hubI connect it to a USB port in the front of the PC. It's where I've always hooked it up. I'm using the same cord that I always do.Really, I'm doing everything that I've always done to transfer music on to a disc. It's just now it won't work and I don't know why.a bit off topic, but perhaps useful as well: about the MP3 errors; they can be caused by a faulty ID3 tag as SS only knows how to handle tags constructed totally following the standards and some programs (like among others winamp) are known not to adhere to these standards too strictlyI don't really follow all that. Is there a way to fix it so SS would be able to transfer them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 ok a couple of things...:- have you read the rules (the link with the red exclamation point at the top of this page) in the meantime? please do, it could always be useful as it might concisely explains the basic stuff we need to know if we want to help you (like mentioning the system you are running, it could be a Me-bug!)- also it might bring up details neither you nor I am thinking of right now (what other programs are running, virus protection, anti spyware etc...)- are the discs accidentally write-protected? (the small slider on the disc itself)- are the discs empty, almost full, old, new, ...- is the machines battery full (with HiMD this is not necessary, but with NetMD I dunno)- can you record anything from another source (or is the MZ-NE410 a downloader only?)- does SS reach a certain % of transferring before failing?... (perhaps others will chip in with more ideas, but try to read the rules and post as much detail as you can)on the issue of the MP3s:- MP3 stores info (title, artist, ...) in tags (ID3 tags mostly)- these tags are normally constructed following a couple of standardised rules (by the MP3 encoding program) so each MP3 player understands the tags and can show the info- some encoders (like winamp) do not always follow these rules to the letter and this creates non-standard tags (if you did not create the MP3s yourself, but downloaded them or something, it could well be that the tags aren't standardised)- SS is an MP3 'reader' but it only understands completely standardised tags. MP3s with non-standard tags will be interpreted as a unknown and unsupported format.- If this is the case (there are other possibilities as well) just retag the problem-MP3s with a program that uses standard tags (I don't really know for sure, but I believe iEatBrainz does this easily)- if this isn't the case, it could be that they are not in a standard frequency/bit depth themselves (not 44,1/16) as lots of podcasts are... but I dunno much about that myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tronski Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 (edited) No mine does it to and its starting to piss me off so much. i have a 3.0 ghz, 2.5 gigs of ram running win xp sp2. it will get up to 3 trans. and the crashes. i get the blue screen of death and then reboots after 2 or more trans at one time. scary stuff. im running 3.2 ss but i was running 4.0 and it was doing it more with 4.0. is there anyway of getting even an older version of ss? please help us out. Edited August 3, 2006 by Tronski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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