mmilovan Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 (edited) I'm in a process of reinstalling my system (from the scratch), and I would like to ask our members is there any issue with SS 4.0 regarding uploading of recorded material via mic in or line in?My basic purpose of using HiMD is field recording, and I would like to know what version of SS to install on my fresh, newly installed WinXP system, but I'm confused if everything is working OK.So, is there any limitation of transferring process between recordings made in Linear PCM to hard drive?I used Total recorder trick (1:1 strategy), and rather old version of SS that came with my MZNH700, but I decided that transfers of recording should be much simplier, and linear process.Big thanks for help and opinions,Milan Edited October 30, 2006 by mmilovan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 You shouldn't have to suffer through realtime with a Hi-MD.Most of the problems people have reported with 4.0 have to do with .mp3 titling. Uploading seems to be smooth, as it has been pretty much since 3.2 As long as your current SonicStage is working, you can probably just install 4.0 on top of it. But since you have the disc that came with the unit, you could also uninstall SonicStage through Add or Remove Programs before putting in 4.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmilovan Posted October 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 (edited) Ouch, I did clean install of SS 4.0 on my machine, and just wanted to do transfers of valuable recording I made few days ago.First disc went OK, but second one... you guess, probably ... get "Cannot convert to wav" message Not to mention that disc are from the same, newest HiMD Sony production line (bought it a month ago), recorded with same settings...I'm nervous, and confused a lot Edited October 31, 2006 by mmilovan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 never let sonicstage upload and convert to wav in one effort... uploading alone uses lots of resources and conversion to wav as well. I got some irritating repetitions of parts (in an older version of SS) when doing thatperhaps that is the problem... try uploading without automatic conversion and 'save as wav' later or use Marcnet's HiMD-renderer to save as wav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmilovan Posted October 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Oh man, I'm really, really disappointed with that gibberish Sonic Stage - probably expected too much from badly written software. I will try track-by-track converting. How many resources some must have for converting recordings properly and without faults? Mine PC is Athlon 3.0, 1 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD... and it isn't enough...Really, I can't figure why Sony constantly doing such things?Because, I like Sony's conception of solid built devices and implanting latest technical developments such as digital recording into such great little machine.And, on the top it is crappy software... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Just do your conversions separately. Upload everything first. Then highlight it all and convert. Is that really so horrible? SonicStage's developers were stupid to offer an option for uploading and converting together--if they hadn't, and you still had to do it separately as in the old versions, no one would particularly care. I'm not saying SonicStage is great--it's adequate at best. But the important thing is getting the uploads off the disc, and that seems to be reliable in recent versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmilovan Posted November 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 (edited) @A440Well, I tried it today early in the morning... tried to convert them separately, and... no luck. Everytime I tried, just get that "Cannot convert" popup window.Restarted PC, once, twice... again annoying message and refusing to convert... at the end, finally, I gave up.After around 5 or 6 hours of pause - tried it again.Success - but with bitter taste in my mouth... Anyway, big THANKS to all of you!BTW (speaking of Sony's software developers), is it so hard to put together some device driver that will allow freely transfer of files between the unit and HD via Explorer or any other file manager? Edited November 1, 2006 by mmilovan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 mmilovan,Have you tried MarC's Hi-MD renderer? It might be worth a shot to give it a try, perhaps it will convert the files that Sonicstage wont.http://www.marcnetsystem.co.uk/himdrenderer054.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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