cvdevol Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 Is the slowness of USB transfers an MD hardware limitation, or is Sony/SonicStage doing it on purpose? Or both? I mean, jeez, it takes 15 minutes to transfer 40 minutes of WAV files from MD to computer!The large "ATDATA02.HMA" file that is visible when browsing the MD drive in Windows Explorer obviously contains the actual music files, but it seems to be encrypted. Does anyone know how to use this file directly, bypassing Sony software? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A440 Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Is the slowness of USB transfers an MD hardware limitation, or is Sony/SonicStage doing it on purpose?...The large "ATDATA02.HMA" file that is visible when browsing the MD drive in Windows Explorer obviously contains the actual music files, but it seems to be encrypted. Does anyone know how to use this file directly, bypassing Sony software?It's primarily a hardware limitation: a USB 1.1 connection and the read/write speed of the MD media. SonicStage is also unencrypting as it uploads, so that probably slows things down a bit too. If you want to experiment and see how much SonicStage is slowing down the hardware connection, try copying the HMA file through Windows Explorer, though you won't be able to do anything with it. No one has broken the Sony encryption yet, although people were working on it for a while. Now that the RH1 will upload new and old recordings, there's not much incentive to try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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