navsimpson Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Alright folks, I'm at my wits' end and I'm really hoping someone can help me out. A few months back, I upgraded to SS 4.0 and this happened: a good chunk of my mp3 collection (that I think I ripped using Real Jukebox) now doesn't play in Sonicstage, *unless* you click on the status bar to fast forward a few seconds into the song. So essentially, you double click on a song, or it shows up on a playlist and while it 'looks' like it's playing i.e. no error message, status bar moving, there is no sound. If you do click on the status bar, then the song kicks in.This is definitely a Sonicstage problem, as the files play perfectly normally in WMP 10/11, Winamp and iTunes. Naturally, when trying to make an MP3 CD or transfer to my NWHD3, these tracks show up but contain no sound. To rectify the problem, I started slowly re-ripping my CDs into ATRAC; however, a number of CDs were those that I ripped from an ex-roommate to replace a bunch of CDs that got stolen from me and I have no way to get those CDs back (either originals or copies). Oddly enough, all my *cough* 'alternatively obtained' songs work fine. I am running XP SP2. I phoned Sony tech support and they were no help. I have fully uninstalled SS 4.0 (deleting registry keys etc as per FAQ), I have reinstalled WMP 10 to try and reinstall the MP3 codec. I've tried everything I know - defragging the drive, moving files and re-importing. But, short of going out and buying these CDs that were stolen from me already once, I'm lost. Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.Thanks,Nav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 You may need to re-tag (with utility such as Tag&Rename) those Mp3s in question for it to playback properly with Sonictage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navsimpson Posted October 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Thanks for the suggestion. I did download a couple of tag editors and played around with them, so far to no avail. Is there something specific I'm looking for? Removing all tags? No comments? Really appreciate the help.Nav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 Thanks for the suggestion. I did download a couple of tag editors and played around with them, so far to no avail. Is there something specific I'm looking for? Removing all tags? No comments? Really appreciate the help.NavMost users with similar issue will tend to retag those affected files, i.e. remove the old tags and rename them from the title to the comments. I hope this method will work for you. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navsimpson Posted October 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 I downloaded MP3 Tag Tools and deleted all v1 and v2 id3 tags and then re-tagged based upon the filename. Still no luck - most of those mp3's (which, as it says in the comments, were in fact ripped using Real Jukebox) still are silent until you fiddle with the status bar. It's frustrating because all those mp3s work fine in WMP 11 and also, some random songs of the same albums play fine in Sonicstage.Thanks for the suggestion though. Any other thoughts? Anyone? Help! I'm going nuts!-nav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted October 11, 2006 Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 Just out of curiosity, do you employ any sort of codec packs? One such that may cause playback issue with SonicStage is FFDSHOW. If you do have codec packs within your system, you may want to try uninstalling the codec packs. In the future, don't install codec packs. Rather, install the individual codec by itself - codec packs are bad for your system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navsimpson Posted October 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 (edited) No codec packs - I actually, very stupidly did once install ffdshow, but it is uninstalled now and the problem pre-existed that. But here is a list of audio codecs installed on my system. Does anyone see anything that might be causing the problem? Is there one I should just remove?Thanks so much,-nav[one more edit] - I just realised that other MP3s play fine, so perhaps it isn't a codec issue? Edited October 11, 2006 by navsimpson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navsimpson Posted October 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2006 Thanks for the help folks. Now, judging from the 200+ views of this thread, I'm guessing some people were hoping I found a solution. Unfortunately, no luck (sorry I let you down) - even using something like mp3repacker to, as the name suggests, 're-pack' the files yielded no results.So, speaking of yielding, I just downloaded dbPowerAMP and transcoded my mp3s to new mp3s. Crappy solution, as it degrades the sound quality of tracks I have no way of replacing. But it does work - Sonicstage now plays those mp3s and, using LAME, the sound quality degredation isn't nearly as bad as I thought. Here's hoping the seemingly new, friendlier face of Sony will resolve those issues so I can keep the things I like and not the things I don't.Thanks again,-Nav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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