Dead PC with all my files on it.

[Broonie]

My PC has died completely. All my audio files are on a separate disk so I can easily take it out and put it into my new PC (when i get it) as a slave drive. My question is how will this effect sonic stage and all the stuff I currently have on my mobile device. Knowing Sony software is not just a case attaching my mobile device to the USB lead and copying stuff back to my new PC with a fresh install of Sonic Stage on it. Please help.

Cheers

Craig

[peterjf]

I haven't done this myself, but others on here have said that if you connect your existing drive to your new PC, you can import your existing files to SonicStage, as long as there is no copy-protection on the files. (If any of your tracks are copy-protected, they will probably still import, but will then be unplayable and will not transfer to your player - in which case, the only option is to re-rip the original CDs.) The music on your player should not be affected as you can use the device with more than one PC.

My SonicStage library is on a slave disk which I transferred to my new PC recently. However, I put the music into SonicStage by restoring a SS backup I had previously made.

Only one word of caution - if you put SS4.2 (or possibly 4.3) onto the new PC, and the music on your device was put on by an earlier version, I would not connect the device to the PC until the entire music library is ready to transfer, otherwise the track listings on the device get scrambled. The only way round this is to re-initialise the player and re-transfer the music.

Good luck!