Tom B Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I use my MZ-RH1 to transfer material I have recorded on another MD recorder to my XP-Pro computer. This has been working for me for some time. Now I've run into a recording I made of a radio show, where there was difficulty completing the transfer. The transfer begins and Sonic Stage reports it's 25% finished. It then goes back to 0% and proceeds through to about 25% again. It did this about 5 times before finally completing a 100% transfer. I tried using Sonic Stage to control the MZ-RH1 and play back the recording. This works OK, from beginning to end. Does this mean the Mini Disk has been damaged? Where should I go from here with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Ah... the old miscalculated transfer problem? Take a look at the file it builds on the PC. You will notice that it keeps on increasing. The repeated increases and decreases reported by SS may be an artifact on very long files, nothing more. Someone didn't do their math right and when some 16-bit (65536) counter gets overflowed, it has to recalculate. How long is the recording, and at what bit rate? I can predict at what % this may happen if you tell me these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philippeb Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 I use my MZ-RH1 to transfer material I have recorded on another MD recorder to my XP-Pro computer. This has been working for me for some time. Now I've run into a recording I made of a radio show, where there was difficulty completing the transfer. The transfer begins and Sonic Stage reports it's 25% finished. It then goes back to 0% and proceeds through to about 25% again. It did this about 5 times before finally completing a 100% transfer. I tried using Sonic Stage to control the MZ-RH1 and play back the recording. This works OK, from beginning to end. Does this mean the Mini Disk has been damaged? Where should I go from here with this? This is the "normal" behaviour of Sonic Stage. Nothing to worry about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom B Posted February 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 The .oma transferred file is a big one - - 153.27 MB. It's 66 kbps, 44.1 khz. The content is a radio show that's included where I let the recorder run all afternoon. Is there anything I should be doing to get big files like this to transfer OK? Some of them do transfer without hanging up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 20% of an MD is 30 MB. I think the limit is the number of frames = 65536. At 66kbps that may be just about exactly the time you are talking.. about 1 hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom B Posted February 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 Interesting - - Thank you. Fortunately it is working now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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