question about iceedteas build of sonicstage 2.0

[Androidus]

On thing the sticky post doesn't seem to mention, is why did he customize sonicstage? Does it allow direct mp3 to md like m3u2sb?

Sorry about the noob like question but I couldn't find what it is all about.

[Androidus]

I found some info on the stripped down version by iceedtea. It seems that you can directly transfer mp3's to my md, correct? if so this is exactly what i am looking for instead of time consuming way of creating an image...

I went ahead and followed his instructions to install SS but i cant get it to work...The tool bar of the prog is on the fritz and everytime I try to do anything it crashes...Bad install?

I am using an ne410...I used to have a 510 but the buttons stopped working and I sent it back to where I bought it...So I went today and got this 410...I dunno if I like it much...it feels cheap. But if it works i won't care so much.

[iceeedtea]

I apologize on behalf of "iceeedtea" for failure to properly describe what the customized "build" does. :dry: That moderator is a complete and utter idiot.

This was posted over on T-Station the other week:

"Original" .iso file: Standard. Lacks Hi-MD/NetMD drivers. Includes ATRAC3+ CD writing support and support for English, Korean, Chinese. 230MB. Available only through BitTorrent/eMule.

"Daijoubu's build": Lacks DirectX 9.0, Windows Media 9 Components, ATRAC3+ CD writing support, Sony UI Library, Hi-MD drivers. 21.6MB. Available only through BitTorrent/eMule.

"iceeedtea's build": Lacks DirectX 9.0. Includes official Hi-MD/NetMD drivers, Windows Media 9 Components, Audio CD/ATRAC3+ CD/MP3 CD writing. Available through HTTP or FTP. 36.4MB. Absolute piece of worthless crap.

All he [okay, okay, I] did was remove Chinese + Korean support, DirectX 9.0, and some other useless things that made it so large. The only reason for doing so was for mass distribution [piracy?] of the software to the masses, since not everyone is patient enough to spend hours on end downloading a 230MB .iso file [which doesn't even include Hi-MD/NetMD/CD-R(W) support natively]. Not worth it to most people, since it wouldn't even work properly with their NetMD units. So, being the bored person I was/am, I set to work and ripped out a bunch of stuff from the .iso [which originally from a ATRAC3+ PCDP version of SonicStage 2.0], added in things like the Hi-MD/NetMD drivers, CD-R(W) writing in three different formats, etc. The result was a 36.4MB file, after being heavily compressed down using WinRAR + SFX'd.

It's incredibly user-friendly, I'd think. Download, click a few simple buttons, you're done. Otherwise, if someone were to grab the 230MB ISO version, they'd also have to install NetMD drivers seperately, but they still wouldn't have CD-R(W) writing [which, oddly enough, adds no space at all to the install].

None of the NetMD software provided by Sony allows for direct MP3 -> MiniDisc unit. Even in the older software, all it would do would be to decode the MP3 into .wav format, and then encode that into ATRAC3 (in LP2/LP4) to send to the unit. M3U2SB just acts as something "between" the NetMD software; it still utilizes the NetMD interface. Thus, it does the same; MP3 -> [decompression to .wav] -> [conversion to ATRAC3 (LP2/LP4) -> MiniDisc unit.

Hope that explains some. :smile:

The tool bar of the prog is on the fritz and everytime I try to do anything it crashes...Bad install?

Very likely. Try doing a clean install, following the instructions in this thread. I have no problems with SonicStage 2.0, nor have 93% of the other users out there. And the ones with problems have fixed their issues by clean-installing. Much simpler than troubleshooting the exact cause....