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Help! Sonicstage won't transfer to my Hi-MD anymore!

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Hey guys. I know this has been covered somewhat in other posts but my situation is somewhat different. I have the Sony walkman MZ-RH10 and used to be able to transfer tracks to it just fine via sonicstage 3.0. I recently upgraded to SS 4.0 CP and now after SS converts my WMA or MP3 files to ATRAC, it just freezes up while trying to transfer them to my portable. :angry: I've contacted Sony 3 times about this and they just keep giving me half-ass automated replies that don't help me out one bit. Some support they got there. Anyway, I tried uninstalling everything, including the drivers, sony files/folders, registry keys and emptying the recycle bin to no avail several times. I also tried versions 3.0, 3.4 and 4.0 again. Still no luck. What a pain! I don't know who designed their crappy software but they oughta be bitch-slapped! Any ideas other than a complete reinstall of Win Xp would be much appreciated.

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first thing: do you have any windows skins running as this freezes SS

secondly: please read and post according to the rules for posting as this provides us with much needed info to help you...

further: be as precise as possible in describing you problem AND the circumstances (system specs, other programs running, virus scanners, viri,...) you can't give oo much info :lol:

lastly: please be patient with us :P we're only a board full of MD-lovers and no Sony-support ;) we will try and help you, but it may take a while and sometimes (not often :D ) we simply don't know...

hope we will be able to help!

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  • 3 weeks later...

Thank's for the replies. I have no skins but use wallpaper. Got rid of that but it makes no difference.

My system specs:

Asus SLI Deluxe

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+

2 GB of DDR-SDRAM

Nvidia 7900 GTX

Creative X-fi soundcard

Win XP Home

Win XP firewall

Norton A/V

Roboform

I get the feeling that there is a major bug in Sonicstage that keeps the program from properly uninstalling and leaves unwanted entries in the registry that interfere with a new installation. I found a post somewhere that showed all these Sony & Open MG folders/files and reg keys to delete. I deleted them all and restarted(in safe mode) but I still have the same problems as before. Is it just me or does SS kind of act like a computer virus? No matter what you do, you can't get rid of the damn thing! Arrrggghhh! The weird thing is that right after a new install of SS, it works fine for about 5 min but than it refuses to transfer anymore tracks. I'm probably just gonna have to re-install Win XP cuz this seems to be the only thing that ever works(at least for awhile). I wish that Sony would worry less about adding new features in updates and just focus on taking the bugs out so that it works reliably. Than maybe we could all enjoy our Md walkmans w/out having to cross our fingers and hope for the best. Oh well. Maybe someday........ Yeah right! :rolleyes: LOL

first thing: do you have any windows skins running as this freezes SS

secondly: please read and post according to the rules for posting as this provides us with much needed info to help you...

further: be as precise as possible in describing you problem AND the circumstances (system specs, other programs running, virus scanners, viri,...) you can't give oo much info :lol:

lastly: please be patient with us :P we're only a board full of MD-lovers and no Sony-support ;) we will try and help you, but it may take a while and sometimes (not often :D ) we simply don't know...

hope we will be able to help!

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there have been issues noted between nvidia cards and SS... do a search for nvidia here on the forums as it has been discussed often IIRC but I can't seem to remember whether installing the latest drivers or one specific driver was the eventual solution... (a search should find this pretty quickly)

I hope that fixes it as a windows reinstal is a real bummer

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