At 8:22 PM +0000 7/26/06, Chris Hails wrote:
> It mostly takes me 5-6 attempts per recording to get any file
>across from my MD
>to my laptop and sometimes it must take as many as 20 attempts.
>
>To be fair, in maybe 300 downloads since April it has only failed me
>completely on one occasion. But for those of us beyond 50 this is not
>good for the blood pressure !
>
>My MD simply tells me "access error", and SS confirms same as a "read
>error". Neither my MD manual nor SS help tells me what this means. My
>imagination has lead me to try and identify "success factors" with SS
>downloads:
Hi Chris.
Glad things are going well for your recording interests. I look
forward to posted recordings.
Gosh, I never thought to retry SS that many times! If the disk plays,
another, maybe a less trying method is to download Total Recorder for
$18USD and do a real time transfer. Its still a digital transfer and
you can stop the transfer with the autostop mode. I've used TR on
occasion to make 16bit/48K transfers when I knew the material was
destined for a 48K mixing session. I too have lost two sound files
over about 200 transfers. I've noticed that sometimes the errors are
from _me_ including an unacceptable character in a file name.
SonicStage's biggest short-coming is not being able to convey the
source of the problem like we have come to expect on a computer.
I have three players (900, 910 and NH700). I've not yet encountered a
disk with an "internal error" during transferring that worked on
another player. (That doesn't mean this couldn't happen!) I used to
re-format the disks thinking it would make the disk more compatible,
but I don't do this anymore. (I bet that "formatting" initializes
the disk-- not a write/read check). Instead, I erase all of the
tracks and that has reduced internal errors for me.
That you are getting "access errors" with the NH910 and that repeat
transfer requests to SS sometimes work,.. make me something is not
performing within norm. Easy to observe,.. harder to locate. I might
be able to help you trouble-shoot off-line. Rob D.
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