herbaklez Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 I'm replacing the old IDE drive with a SATA drive. Simply cloning the drive hasn't been successful as it won't boot without a fresh installation of windows on the SATA drive. I seem to have exhausted any technical assitance available on that problem) The old IDE drive has a lot of music in the Sonic Stage 4.3 My Library. Many of these are live recordings of my band transferred from minidisc. Others are recordings from CDs, or imported from WAV files (from re-mixed live recordings). Some of the WAV originals no longer exist. Many of these files will have copyright protection. How do I transfer all of my music to the new hard drive? Is there a link to a page of instructions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 #1. if they are copy protected, you can't copy them. That's the idea #2. if you still can make SonicStage talk to them, then the latest (4.3) version (possibly all 4.x version, I am not sure) will allow you to remove the copy protection as part of the "File Conversion Tool" accessible from the main menu of SS. If you decrypt the files (clue: the FCT will rename their extension from .oma to .OMA, though some files, eg AAL, are ending in .oma and are not even encrypted) then copying them to another hard drive and reimporting into a fresh install of SonicStage will allow you to play them, transfer them, whatever, just fine. Hope this helps. Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 Possibly an obvious suggestion, but have you tried Sonicstage's Backup tool to back up your library to an external media, and restore to your new hard drive? I did this twice last week and it worked fine. You might need to de-copyright protect your files as sfbp suggested, but otherwise it should be worth a try, if you have a spare external drive available. You might even be able to use your old IDE drive for the backup if you have enough space on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 Possibly an obvious suggestion, but have you tried Sonicstage's Backup tool to back up your library to an external media, and restore to your new hard drive? I did this twice last week and it worked fine. You might need to de-copyright protect your files as sfbp suggested, but otherwise it should be worth a try, if you have a spare external drive available. You might even be able to use your old IDE drive for the backup if you have enough space on that. Sure, this would be easier - the only thing this requires is (I think) the Sony authentication web server, which was back up the last time I needed it. But the way I suggested doesn't require it, that's all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avrin Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 The authentication server is up right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Sure, go ahead and authenticate, but after you run the File Conversion Tool--make sure to un-check copy protection--those files will play on ANY SonicStage. It makes them portable. Do that before Sony does something weird with the encryption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Agree 2000% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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