Where are my track numbers?

[marcoleavitt]

Just downloaded the Hi-MD Music Transfer program from Sony (I'm on a Mac OS 10.5.2), and when I transferred over my files from my Hi MD recorder they came over in six blocks, rather than as individual tracks (more than 30 in all). I believe these were the points where I actually hit the stop button during recording. The rest of the tracks were created by hitting pause. This is a big problem because I used this recorder on a movie shoot, and the track listings were written on the slate so I need the individual files to correspond to those numbers. I can see the individual tracks listed in the program window with a single note icon on the far left. The points where larger files end are indicated by a symbol that looks like a sheet of music. Is there anyway to copy over the individual tracks and have them retain their numbers? I may give up on Hi-MD over this.

[Strungup]

Just downloaded the Hi-MD Music Transfer program from Sony (I'm on a Mac OS 10.5.2), and when I transferred over my files from my Hi MD recorder they came over in six blocks, rather than as individual tracks (more than 30 in all). I believe these were the points where I actually hit the stop button during recording. The rest of the tracks were created by hitting pause. This is a big problem because I used this recorder on a movie shoot, and the track listings were written on the slate so I need the individual files to correspond to those numbers. I can see the individual tracks listed in the program window with a single note icon on the far left. The points where larger files end are indicated by a symbol that looks like a sheet of music. Is there anyway to copy over the individual tracks and have them retain their numbers? I may give up on Hi-MD over this.

You may have hit the first known snag in MD2.0 I am on a Macbook pro with Tiger , I didnt upgrade to Leopard for exactly this suspicion , "What If "

MD Transfer was designed for Tiger , and Panther , both Intel/PPC , but Leopard is a whole new ball game , in that the Core structure of OSX was rewritten , thereby introducing differences .

I suspected that bugs would pop up .

If you want , send the disc to me or Have a Friend who is still on Tiger transfer the files to desktop and then drop them as Wav files to DVD as data , I am in Japan . but would do that if you pay shipping and beer money ( gotta have something while I am transfering the files ya know!)

Edited June 27, 2008 by Guitarfxr

[sfbp]

this is not to discount GuitarFxr's post at all. You sound like you are getting 1 group per file instead of one track per file. Most people use the RH1 in the mode where it starts a new group every time you press Record.

I don't have a Mac, so I have no idea about the software you have. But it makes me wonder if there is a configuration item to control this.

Good luck!

Added later:

I have been thinking about this. If the software only sends one group at a time, it's a simple matter to put every track (that you already recorded) into its own group. You just need one thing: a PC!!!!!! Hook up the RH1 to the PC via the USB cable and use SonicStage to perform the manipulation. Not very intuitive (perhaps someone else can give clear instructions?) but I am pretty sure I could do the whole job in 5 minutes. I wonder if Guitarfxr was joking about sending him the disk.

Once you have the tracks rearranged one per group, you can reconnect to the Mac and repeat whatever you did (the folder thingy sounds like a group icon). Sorry but you may have to copy (use cut and paste in Windows, get a PC-ophile to show you) the names of the tracks to the names of the groups if the software is stubborn.

Another possibility is to look on page 56 of the manual and read how to move a given track to another group using the buttons on the RH1 itself.

Another possibility is to do all the rearrangement from the Mac before the transfer (upload). I really don't know the limitations of the Mac software.

Tedious and annoying but surely better than sending off and waiting 2 weeks.

If there is an ongoing problem at the Mac end, you might want to reconfigure the RH1 NOT to start a new group every time. If that's a pain, forget the idea of pressing pause between takes, just start a new recording (leave the group auto-creation ON after all) by pressing the record button every single time you do and the STOP button whenever you finish a track. This new mode has two advantages to you:

1. When you stop recording, everything IS flushed to the disk, whereas I think with Pause, it is not.

2. Each track is automatically in its own group (assuming you still have group autocreation turned on on the recorder)

Maybe you can use the Mac to label groups and/or tracks after creation, so forget what I said about PC - it's just that I know I could do that and it would work - so if you don't have a PC you can borrow (sigh means installing Sonic Stage!) you might do it with what you have right now, after recording but before upload.

Good luck!