HELP: Can Import But NOT play HI MD files

[kenyon]

I have folders of OMG files on an external drive. I copied the folders to my computer C drive, and imported them into SS 4.3. The TOC loads, but when I try to play the music, the icon (blue music notation thing) to the left of the track turns black instead of blue, and it will not play. Sometimes, not always, it tells me I dont have permission to play the file, and asks if I want to connect to the internet to get authentication or something like that. I dont understand. Help!! These are mostly music files recorded via MIC by a friend of his band -- ie: not duped CDs.

[Richard]

* Moved to appropriate sub-section

[A440]

Just because you can copy the files doesn't mean your computer can read them. The files are encrypted and you need the original discs. This is all part of Sony's bizarre paranoia about music copying, but it's a fact of life. It doesn't matter how the recordings were made.

If the files were recorded by an old MD player--which, as OMG files, they probably were--the only way to upload them is by putting the disc into a MZ-RH1 and transferring to the computer through SonicStage. Otherwise, play them back in realtime and record them out of the headphone jack, as explained here:

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7070

Conceivably, if you have a MZ-RH1 unit, you could try copying (through Windows drag-and-drop) the omg files from your hard drive onto a disc and try to upload them through SonicStage. But I have no idea if that would work.

Newer recordings made with Hi-MD units can be uploaded more easily. But drag-and-drop from MD to PC is still not within the Sony universe.

Edited April 19, 2007 by A440