New PC

[martinsmith100]

Hi all

I have a new PC. I have installed Sonic Stage 4 on to it and transferred my SonicStage/packagaes directory containing around 450 CDs from my collection (around 6000 tracks). I attempted to import these into Sonic Stage 4 after installing it on the new PC, which worked fine. However I now cannot play any of them (or indeed create ATRAC CDs from them) because of 'rights' issues. For example attempting to play a track gets me the error "Cannot play back the track. Do you want to connect to the Internet and download the license for the track?". Clicking yes always gets the error 'Cannot load the rights information for the selected tracks', which is sort of good because I don't want to do it for all 6000+ tracks. Is there anyway of recovering this. I really don't want to go through the process of importing all again.

Regards

Mart

[raintheory]

Try this out on the old PC (hopefully you still have it)...

In SonicStage, go to "Tools/My Library/Backup My Library".

This will create a backup of your library retaining all of the rights info.

You would then go through the same process on the new PC to import the library.

This should work... However, I have never actually done this. If anyone with experience wants to chime in please do.

Edited July 25, 2006 by raintheory

[A440]

Also, if you have the old computer, you could try this:

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=16088

Excerpt:

* In SonicStage, go the the menu "Tools" and select "Start File Conversion Tool".

* If it opens up, click Next and then UNSELECT both options ('Delete Files' and 'Add DRM'). Click Next and the tool will start converting all drm-ed files to non-drm-ed files.

* Search for the "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\SonicStage\Packages\Optimized Files" folder. The files you need are in there. Create a desktop shortcut for your convenience.

* Back up the files to your medium of choice