Retrodavid Posted June 23 Report Share Posted June 23 Hey guys. 🙂 So I have a Sony mz-520 that's been sat in the draw for a while that I've decided to dig out to hook up to my windows 11 laptop. I've managed to get sonicstage and the drivers on the laptop so the MD player can see the lap top but when I've tried to use it today sonicstage isn't letting me add tracks to the playlist side to record to MD. The tracks are MP3 so should be compatible. Any ideas where I'm going wrong guys? The software was downloaded from here. 4.3 ultimate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted June 24 Report Share Posted June 24 Check your temporary file location is writeable. Most likely modern windows install is protecting all directories. SS has to convert files one by one after you press the transfer button. MP3 is not a good starting place for you. Don't try to run before you can walk. Get some OMA files you want to transfer and see if they can be sent to the device. If not, I would suspect strongly you didn't put the 64-bit NetMD driver in place. BTW, it's an MZ-N520, that N is the key to it being even hookable to the PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrodavid Posted June 24 Author Report Share Posted June 24 Cheers for the reply 🙂 how do you make the temp files writable? I tried again yesterday to add some music but a different album this time and it worked. MP3 format. I'm not very familiar with the various formats out there tbh and I'll have to research the others. Just had a thought it might of been down to copyright protection on the cd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted June 25 Report Share Posted June 25 ok, so you have the driver issues sorted, that's great. I think that SS cannot handle variable bit rates (or some variable bit rates). Documentation should be in the extended (and extensive) manual which if you didn't get with a second hand unit, is easily available, either here or at minidisc.org The Tools->options has some things to look at. I couldn't find what I remembered, the "temp" thing is for making CDs which clearly need a large scratch space on HD. Then I remembered, when files are converted, the MP3 files (well, the OMA they get converted to) are put here: <whatever>\sonicstage\importedsound\Optimized Files\ Or it may have simply been the VBR restriction, if that location shows files you created with your successful transfer. A word to the wise - don't START with MP3 unless you have no choice. And even then, use Sound Forge to do the conversion, you will get a lot more options and the sound should be infinitely better. Always choose LP2 as your destination format. Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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