Cannot Save Using Gym, help!

[knutt]

first I wanna say hi! First post!

I'm having some difficulties on trying to backup my songs on my NW-E307. I've searched for a solution but cannot find anything that could assist me on this.

GYM starts up fine, and I can see the list of songs on my device. However, it won't play any songs (click play and it hangs), nor will it save. When I click "Save All Tracks" it asks for a location, and when I click ok, it creates a list of folders with the artists' name, but the folders are all empty. Is there something I might have done wrong?

I have installed, m$ net framework 1.1, mp3 file mangager, sonic stage 4.0, DirectX9.0c, and GYM 1.2. I have ran the key generator which seems to work fine, but that was the only thing working for me.

Thanks in advance for any assistance

[JSP62]

hmmmmm, do you have WMP 10 installed?

[Fyda]

Hi. I am having the same issue (symptom: many empty folders created when "Copy All Tracks" is attempted), except that some of my files will transfer correctly to the computer (to be precise: 13 of them, out of the 375 on the device), and my device is a NW-A608.

I am running GYM 1.12 (the non-beta), in Windows XP Pro, and have already followed the instructions on the GYM site. After reading this thread, I also installed Windows Media Player 10 with no problems, but it did not solve the issue. After googling the problem, I also installed version 2.01 of the firmware from Sony Japan (although that was not prescribed in any way as a solution to this problem -- only incidental).

I have found that those same 13 files which successfully transfer in GYM can be played normally as local files, but cannot be played from the device in SonicStage CP (error: "Cannot load the rights information for the selected tracks. The file format may not be supported by SonicStage. (0000010d)"). All the other files, which GYM fails to transfer, can be played from the device in SonicStage CP. GYM cannot play any file at all -- there is activity on the device when I press "Play" but nothing plays, not even after several minutes. The program does not hang when doing this -- pressing "Stop" works.

There are no DRMed files on the device.

I ran FILEMON (from sysinternals.com), with the log filter set to only include "GYM", in order to try and pinpoint the problem. I have uploaded the relevant log excerpts HERE (with comments), to prevent this post from being bloated with large chunks of code.

Since there are no error messages, I'm at a loss as to what could be the problem. Have I overlooked anything that I should have done/installed on my system?

Also significant is that the NW-A608 has "Intelligent Features" (Intelligent Shuffle, Artist Link), which means that SonicStage CP writes extra data to the database on the device. Since GYM was made for older NW devices, it's also possible that it cannot read a database with these new features.

If there is nothing I can do to solve this, I hope that GYM (or a new project) will be developed for full compatibility with the newer NW devices -- unless this issue can be solved for the current version through a workaround or patch.

Thank you for your time.

- Fyda

Edited September 2, 2006 by Fyda

[Krillz]

same problem here, the files in GYM show up in blue...

[Krillz]

from the screenshots ive seen i assume the song names in gym must be written in black, but they just aren't...

i have everything installed...

[Krillz]

nevermind

my files were encrypted in atrac, not mp3, didnt know gym only worked with mp3s