HiMD transfer to Mac blocked

[musichouse]

I am transfering music from my MD Recorder to my MAC. The manuel says tracks that have an eighth note in front of the track cannot be imported. Can someone explain why? All tracks were recorded on a 80 MD in the HiMD SP Mode.

[btovsky]

hi

i'm also getting bitten by this problem, and a bit of experimentation and some fruitless calls to Sony got me to this point: it seems that if you record digitally, using the optical input on your hi-md deck (i use an mz-m100 portable) from any digital source (i have only tested this using my m-audio firewire 410 audio interface) and try and import these files using the Sony Hi-MD Music Transfer for Mac Ver. 2.0 software you will find that these digital files will not transfer - they have the "single note" icon rather than the "itunes-ish" icon for files that are transferrable. i have called Sony several times about this, and the last time i kindly asked to be bumped up to the next tier of tech support after patiently trying to explain modern recording practices to the helpful-but-clueless tech support person - and she hung up on me. so i haven't found out "why" officially this is the case - the docs i have read about Sonic Stage (the PC software for transferring files) state that this type of recording is supported and can be transferred - but not with the mac i guess. anyone else ahve any ideas?

cheers

bruce