Indy Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Hi Guys,i upgraded to SS3.4 yesterday. I was positively surprised, that most mixes i made and could'nt transfer with SS3.3 suddenly worked (DRM)! Now this just means nothing 'cause everything i rip (352KBit/s ATRAC) and transfer ends up with annoying glitches in the music. It sounds like a dirty cd-player in which the spinning cd jumps around like crazy......mostly in the beginning and end of the cd....i tried the ones that i transfered prior to SS3.4 and everything's fine with them......wth? pls help!thanks in advance for the help,Indy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 HI,Welcome to AtracLife,Are you having this problem with other cd`s also ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted March 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Hello,no, i don't! It began right after updating to SS3.4. I didn't alter any settings i used in 3.3. Every CD comes up with those annoying gaps, sounds like u give your cd-player a kick while it's playing.....nothing like that happened with 3.3.i had plenty of other programms running while ripping/transfering with SS. this was no problem in 3.3, now perhaps?Indy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Try to rip in Some other Atrac bit rate & see wheter that problem still exists or not . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotel Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 I have the same problem, SS is just crap, as always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The R-W!N8r Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 maybe you should enable smoothing in the options menu??Tools / options / CD Drive settings / CD importing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Also make sure that the recording quality is set to "HIGH". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted March 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 (edited) Hello again,first of all i would like to thank u guys for your time.....@fotel: Did u get it working yet?@all: Thanks for the tips, i'll try that.Some days ago i ripped one of my mixes directly from the .wav file before burning to cd...and it worked fine, without any gaps! So something maybe wrong with my cd-rom, but, why the hell didn't this happen with SS 3.3?perhaps setting the task priority to high and turning on that smoothing thingy will help, i'll keep u informed....and again, thanks for your help m8'sIndy Edited March 9, 2006 by Indy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 I have two Drives one is DVd drive other is cd-writer drive ..Many times i`m unable to rip cd`s using SonicStage or sometime SonicStage gives error that after ripping half the cd that cd can`t be imported but other drive works great & i`m able to rip other half of the cd .(Cd doesn`t have any Scratchs ,nor my cd drives lens is dirty)) .This is also very Weird ...I will aslo suggest you to try to rip that cd on other computer or on some other drive (if you have) using Sonic Stage ver3.4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Hello again,like i said before....with SS3.3 everything was fine, same pc, same drives, everything as before.....in SS3.3 i could rip my mixes without any problems, ok one, SS told me that my, i repeat my, mixes are copyrighted, wth? Everything was mixed using original vinyls, still SS said there are tracks i cannot transfer, they are copyrighted, crap program. Now with 3.4 this didn't happen and i was kinda happy with it and then the soundproblems began......i'm kinda pissed off.....Indy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debasser Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 I have exactly the same problem as Indy is describing. I was using Sonic Stage 3.3 up until a reinstall of windows. I have now installed version 3.4 and now when I am encoding a CD I get ocassional skips.Other than a fresh windows installation (XP SP2) I have exactly the same hardware and the exact same cds. I have cd smoothing engauged and have the high quality setting activated. BTW I am encoding as an ATRAC @ 192k.As I said not such problems using 3.2, but I would really like to encode without the copyright protection (after being caught out and having to delete all my previously encoded files after the reinstall). Any ideas because it's as frustrationg as hell?Also how come 3.4 it complains about copy protected cds when 3.3 did not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted March 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Hello again,it worked for me now. I activated the smoothing option and disabled every single program that is not needed for ripping, i.e anti-virus, peer guardian, even the razer mouse driver thing. i had one single gap in the beginning of the first cd i ripped but every cd that came after that, was perfect. I think SS3.4 needs loads of resources and doesn't like any other programm running in the background.I'm almost happy now.....almost.....Indy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Indy,Nice to hear that your ripping problem is solved .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exapno Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 I had the same problem with SS 3.4, the music would skip on various tracks. I tried 3.1 which worked ok, now I'm trying 3.3 which seems alright but I can't get gracenote to work... *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted March 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Hello again,it's not solved completely. I had a few skips in one of the mixes i ripped with 3.4, while 2 or 3 of them where ok.It's kinda random and i don't have any clue why this is happening. Let me guess....nothing from sony regarding this kind of problem. I mean, with 3.3 everything was fine when it came to ripping stuff. The DRM problem was even worse, i couldnt transfer most rips cause it said they are copyrighted. Now the skipping crap.i mean, the player is great but the software sucks so much.....retarded!i'll bump that thread from time to time, perhaps someone can solve this in the future...it's SS3.4 that is messed up and i hope they'll fix it.....IndyOh,almost forgot: I'm rippping with 352kbit/s ATRAC. The only workaround i found is to rip the cd with some other program and the convert the 800 meg wave to ATRAC and transfer.....but hey, sony, one of the leading producers of audio equipment should get this crap working......damnit! Indy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 I had the same problem with SS 3.4, the music would skip on various tracks. I tried 3.1 which worked ok, now I'm trying 3.3 which seems alright but I can't get gracenote to work... *sigh* Welcome to AtracLife!May i know what problem are you facing with Gracenote?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exapno Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 Welcome to AtracLife!May i know what problem are you facing with Gracenote??It wouldn't start when I put a new cd in and the cd info button was missing. I gave up on 3.3, uninstalled it and reinstalled 3.4. This time I enabled cd smoothing and I haven't had any problems so far. Touch wood.I'm indifferent to Sonicstage but it is usable, I'm very impressed with the HD5 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted May 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Hello again,same problem persists....i just don't get it, why, why, why?Now, i stick to ripping the mix directly from hd after finishing it.....it sucks cause it got no trackpoints before burning.... i'll just wait for SS3.5, it's sad, but hey what should i do......Is Sony aware that there is such a problem? do they work on something? do they work at all? Indy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad2006 Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 I've got a nw-a1000. When I first got it aftew reading comments I uesd sonic stage 3.4, but noticed the skips. The really, really, bugged me. So now I use connect-thisx was even before 1.4-no skips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indy Posted May 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Hello again,problems solved. My damn Sony NW-HD5 just quit working. I didn't drop it or else, it just quit working. I turned it off the second i arrived at work and tried to start it after work and it just wont boot. It starts to boot and then turns off. When connecting it to my PC the PC just doesn't care, it doesn't find it, same with Sonic Stage. I tried the Sony "Support" Hotline and they told me to send it to Texas for repair. They also said, that it would cost me at least 130 bucks. Hahaha.....retards, i dont pay 130 bucks when i get a new one for 250. So this is the last time i bought something from sony. Any suggestions on some other brand? And pls, don't mention apple.Indy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSP62 Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Hello again,Is Sony aware that there is such a problem? do they work on something? do they work at all? Indy Sorry I just found that amusing this AMHello again,problems solved. My damn Sony NW-HD5 just quit working. I didn't drop it or else, it just quit working. I turned it off the second i arrived at work and tried to start it after work and it just wont boot. It starts to boot and then turns off. When connecting it to my PC the PC just doesn't care, it doesn't find it, same with Sonic Stage. I tried the Sony "Support" Hotline and they told me to send it to Texas for repair. They also said, that it would cost me at least 130 bucks. Hahaha.....retards, i dont pay 130 bucks when i get a new one for 250. So this is the last time i bought something from sony. Any suggestions on some other brand? And pls, don't mention apple.IndyInteresting in parting with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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