"Transfer not allowed"!

[danfromabove]

I have a problem with sonicstage as when i try to transfer music downloaded from the internet (even freebies from myspace or a band's website) I get a message saying "transfer not allowed". I am able to transfer cds and even copied cds but not music stored on my pc's hardrive. This does not seem to make any sense as even sony wouldnt disallow any music downloaded from the internet, legally or otherwise and they would be foolish to ignore this market of free downloads. Please tell me why this might be happening and what i might be able to do about it (short of writing all my music off my hd onto cd and ripping into sonicstage).

[aznbro85]

Hey danfromabove,

Welcome to the ATRACLife Colloquium. Hope you enjoy your stay

What file format is the song that you are trying to transfer into SonicStage? Are they MP3s, WMAs, AACs, etc? If it's a WMA or AAC file, check to see if they are protected files or not. If they are protected WMAs or AACs, SonicStage is unable to transfer them over to the player because Sony's license for the WMA/AACs are only for the unprotected type of files.. It is unable to "read" the license and send em off to the player. (you'd need to use players that work under WMP for the secured WMA's and iPods for secured AACs)

If it is an MP3 file, what is the bitrate? I've had instances where I've had like three variable bitrate MP3s when transfered 'as-is', they dont want to play. After i converted them to ATRAC3plus and sent them to the player, it played.

Anyway, keep us posted on if you're able to get it to work and if so what the problem was

[danfromabove]

Thanks for your help. I managed to solve it in a different way by initializing the hard drive on the player and loading the software on a different computer. I was then able to transfer the same files which i had previously been unable to transfer, using the same software. This is a mystery to me but everything is in working order so im not that concerned why it works as long as it works. I may post if i have any futher problems in future as ive already had my share but this thread can be closed by a mod. Thank you.