Tranfering my stuff

[thewire]

Hi! Does anyone now of a way of bringing all my old music files on my old laptop over to my new laptop? I tried just importing them from the player onto SonicStage4.0 but for some reason the majority of the tracks give me an error saying "Cannot playback this track, do you want to connect to the internet and download the Licence for the track?" when i click yes (or no ) a message says " Cannot load rights information for the track, the file may not be supported by Sonic Stage". Although some albums work fine. The version of sonic stage on my old laptop was an early version, does this make a difference.

[peterjf]

The early version of SonicStage should not make a difference.

The only way to get your music across is to use the SonicStage backup utility to make a copy of your music and then restore this to your new laptop. You can access this either through the 'Start-Programs-SonicStage menu' or through the tools menu on SonicStage itself.

Just follow the instructions - it is quite user-friendly and it does work. The only possible fly in the ointment is that you need to connect to the Internet to get authentication on the database before you can restore the backup.

Incidentally, I would strongly recommend that you use this utility on a regular basis to keep a backup, as you can get round most of SS's foibles if you have got a backup that is readily restorable.

[JustAnUnCoolCat]

In addition..

For future purposes with stuff you add to the library (aka rip to, import from other supported formats, or record into SS from source or WAV), a huge amount of avoiding the use of copy protection (when you convert, you can set the encoding to not copy protect), gets you around many many 'cant import it due to license' issues

And since it's only probably Connect Store downloads, if we are talking legit not-messing download sourced copy-protected stuff, that would be copy-protected stuff you can directly import - well, you'll just have do things the right way in future to avoid license issues for that stuff

When the content is not copy-protected, you can simply drag and drop the whole SS library location (aka where it stores the localised ATRAC files.. when we talk about ATRAC stuff) off the original HDD and simply drop into a suitable place in the new HDD.

Two options then, when you do that..

1. Keep the new protection-free copies elsewhere...

2. Drop em directly into the SS library folder on the HDD and reimport 'em.

Beats the hell out of messing with copy-protected stuff, and in the event you ever want to send c-p'd versions to a deck for any reason, if you keep the original non-atrac stuff on store, you can always generate c-p'd versions in ATRAC for times when they are needed.

Simply really

'Tom Kat'