OMA files

[The Mule]

Hi,

Just before I sold my NW-A3000 last year I copied 2gb of Atrac music from the player onto a folder on my hard drive hoping to copy that onto another player at a later date. Having recently purchased a new NW-A3000 I'm finding that OMA files in the folder wont go onto this player. A transcode error message appears after dragging the files into the Connect Library. I'm assuming that these files are encoded to prevent them from being copied from player to player, but is there any way of getting round this? I've read something on this forum about using GYM to extract the OMA files back into MP3 format, but was wondering if that would be of any use in this case. Im a bit concerned I wont be able to use these files as I dont have back ups.

[fcadete]

Hi.

I suggest you put the OMA files in the player's hard drive through windows explorer and try to see if GYM can uncode the files out .

Jsut a suggestion; if it doesn't work you can always delete the files and no harm done I guess.

Good luck.

[The Mule]

Nah, no success with that, GYM doesnt seem to be any use atall. I'm just gonna have to re-download the albums I guess.

[Terence Kelly]

Are you using SonicStage? You should be able to import oma files without copy protection into SonicStage. If you had copy protection then you must be on the same machine to put the files back into SS. If you have a different machine and your original was registed to Connect, you can get the new one to import if you register it as well.

TK

[The Mule]

Thanks I'll give it a try