Cap Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 Actually, second thoughts, its not really is it? It's more a nice way of inducing stress related injuries. Still, better the beast you know and all. I've managed to finally procure a version of Sonicstage 2.0, and it's, well its quite frankly horrible, but there are two things that are really annoying me. 1) Okay so i've got a nice shiny CD i want to convert to MDSP so i can play in my car, not too hard to ask surely? Hmmm. Well, i place it in my DVD tray, and my PC reads it, and launches a program to play the CD. Beautiful, total time wated, about 4 seconds. Next you launch Sonic Stage 2.0, all good for a short time, then the disk tray light starts flashing like an 80's disco, and it chugs, and reads, and chugs and Sonic Stage 2.0 freezes for what feels like eternity, but is probably under 10 minutes, while it tries to compile a track listing. This is with the CDDB thing turned off too. 2) If the software i have came purchased with a Sony Vaio then i could burn my OMG files to CD for use in a conventional CD player, but blatantly my copy didn't, so i can't. So, can anyone guess my questions? Or even trickier, can anyone answer me why (i) Sonic Stage 2.0 loves reading CD's for 10 minutes, and any way i can (ii) either burn OMG files to CD for use in a conventional player, or (iii) perhaps convert them to MP3, (i know this sounds exceedingly stupid) so that i can then burn the MP3's for use in a regular CD player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 First, get 2.1 from connect.com, stability is much better, the codecs are better as well. Second, Sony either tries some kind of vendor lock in or simply doesn't know, how to create Audio-CDs on non-Sony cd-writers. And it wouldn't surprise me, if it is the latter. I strongly suggest, if the destination for the music isn't MD, just don't use it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 Advice: Use iTunes as your music library, and encode everything as 320kbps mp3s. Use SonicStage -only- for shipping tracks to your MD. You can import tracks from your mp3 library, transcode them to whatever bitrate of atrac3 you wish to use, and then delete them from the sonicstage library [making sure not to delete the mp3s, of course]. This way you never have to worry about check-ins/check-outs except for when you're trying to copy things to someone else's puter with one of your MDs. It also means only having to deal with SonicStage when absolutely necessary - which I find important, because SS's music library system is crap, to be frank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borsuk Posted August 19, 2004 Report Share Posted August 19, 2004 I had the same problem with reading CDs while using SS2.0. Installing SS2.1 fixed it :smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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