Hi-MD pcm transfer now supported, but...

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Sony has finally made available a new version of Sonic Stage (2.2) and
has released the Wave Converter program (a standalone utility) to allow
transfer of pcm-encoded files and subsequent conversion to .wav files.

I installed both and tried them out. As was the case with earlier
versions of Sonic Stage, you cannot even attempt a transfer if the disc
is write-protected. I tried it on a long (70 minute) pcm file that I had
previously transferred to an ATRAC file. The transfer took about as long
as I expected. There was vigorous hard disk activity at the end, which I
assume is the ATRAC conversion. Sad to say, after the transfer was all
finished there was NO file on my hard drive. Better yet, the original
file on the minidisc was gone! Nothing in the documentation mentioned
this behavior (of course, who would dare?)...

This was not an insurmountable loss, since I'd already copied the file
and "converted" it via a good-quality soundcard to a .wav file.

Undaunted (well, slightly daunted), I recorded a new pcm file via line-
in on the MD. I repeated the transfer operation and it worked this time.
So did the subsequent Wave Converter operation. But the original MD file
was wiped from the MD again. I tried a few more times and in all cases
the transfer/conversion worked. In all cases, the original file on the
MD was gone afterwards.

I don't know if this is a bug, but if it isn't it should be...

So, thanks, Sony, for coming through with the promised converter
program, but BOO! if erasing the source is SOP.

I've opened a support request to ask about this. No response so far.

Jason

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In article <1102481176.285117.257680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> bwrobinett@gmail.com writes:

> There's a button (Options?) at the lower right of the transfer window
> in SonicStage. If you click on it, there's a check box that sets
> whether SonicStage deletes a file when it tranfers from your MD.

That sounds like something that should be off (doesn't delete the
file) by default and instead, it's on by default. Maybe they got the
idea from Microsoft Outlook, which by default, at least in earlier
versions of Windoze, opens (and runs) a file attached to an e-mail
message.


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