OMA transfer DRM problem.

[argrig]

Ok, so I am sure that it's a very general problem.

I've formatted a drive and some of my recorded tracks were in OMA (didn't manage to convert to wav). I was naive enough to think that you can simply save OMA files and then import them into your new library. Well, no, one can't. An apogee of the copyright age - I can't access my own recordings. "cannot play back selected tracks."

I believe there should be a way to get the information from these protected files. Please, help me !!!

Thank you.

Edited May 25, 2007 by Arcadi

[A440]

I'm sorry to break the bad news but....

For the moment, say goodbye to them. You were supposed to use the Backup Tool before formatting the drive--which slowly makes a backup that would be restored from the newly installed SonicStage after it checked something online. But now the files are encrypted and locked to your disappeared operating system. Only Sony knows how they are encrypted, and it's not telling anyone. Save the files, on a disc or something, in case sanity ever returns to Sony, but don't hold your breath.

In future, after you upload something, immediately run the File Conversion Tool (under Tools in SonicStage) and uncheck the box that says Add Copy Protection. That will convert the .oma files into unencrypted files that will play in any SonicStage. If the File Conversion Tool had been used, the .oma files that you saved would have been fine.

This has happened to huge numbers of people, because Sony doesn't exactly make it easy to find out about this particular "feature" of SonicStage. It's one reason for the slow death of minidisc. Apparently Sony doesn't care.