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SonicStage Ver.3.1
1 SonicStage
2 System requirements
3 Installation
4 operation by "Music Source" screen
5 operation by "My Library" screen
6 operation by "Transfer" screen
7 Back up and Recovery
8 CD burning
SonicStage Ver.3.1



1 SonicStage
Q1. What can I do with SonicStage?
Q2. What files formats are the supported in SonicStage?
Q3. Which MP3 file format is supported in SonicStage?
Q4. Which WMA file format is supported in SonicStage?
Q5. Is it equivalent to u Copy Control CDv?
Q6. What is [CD drive check]?
Q7. Where is SonicStage Help?
Q8. Can SonicStage be used when changing from one user to another with Fast User Switching on Windows XP?
Q9. What is File Conversion Tool?
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2 System requirements
Q1. What are the system requirements for using SonicStage on my computer?
Q2. Can SonicStage be used with Windows 98?
Q3. Can SonicStage be used with Macintosh computers?
Q4. Can SonicStage be used with personally constructed personal computers or operating systems?
Q5. Is it possible to keep using SonicStage after changing OS of my computer from the factory installed?
Q6. SonicStage cannot be installed.
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3 Installation
Q1. How much empty space of hard disk is required for installing SonicStage?
Q2. An error message says the capacity of HDD is short.
Q3. When I install SonicStage, won't other music-player software that I have already installed refuse to run?
Q4. Can I use music files from OpenMG Jukebox/previous version of SonicStage?
Q5. I have a product with SonicStage. Do I need to install the SonicStage supplied with the product that I newly got again?
Q6. Can both OpenMG Jukebox/SonicStage Simple Burner and other version of SonicStage exist together?
Q7. I'm using a Sony VAIO series computer with SonicStage is preinstalled. Is it necessary to install SonicStage supplied with the product?
Q8. When trying to install SonicStage Ver.2.0 or 1.5 to the environment that SonicStage Ver.2.0 or later version is already installed, the installation is terminated.
Q9. The structure of the albums stored in My Library is changed with earlier version of SonicStage Ver. 2.3.
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4 operation by "Music Source" screen
Q1. What is the difference between [Record a CD] and [Import Music Files]?
Q2. What types of data formats are available for transferring to SonicStage from an audio CD?
Q3. How can I change the file format or bit rate when I record music from a CD?
Q4. Is it possible to control the recording level when recording from an audio CD to SonicStage? And also is it possible to control the recording level when transferring from SonicStage to a compatible device/media?
Q5. Is it possible to import the track information when the CD-TEXT and/or CD-EXTRA are recorded into SonicStage?
Q6. What is Music Store?
Q7. Which format is available with the downloaded files from Music Store?
Q8. SonicStage cannot be recognized even though CD drive is connected meanwhile SonicStage is start up.
Q9. Is it possible to set that the recording does not start automatically when inserting an audio CD to the CD drive?
Q10. What is The Gracenote CDDB?
Q11. I cannot get the track information from The Gracenote CDDB.
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5 operation by "My Library" screen
Q1. What is Playlist?
Q2. How many letters of artist name or album name of the track can be handled in My Library?
Q3. Is it possible to change the location to save recorded files?
Q4. Can imported track to My Librarybe changed the save directry?
Q5. What is ATRAC3plus?
Q6. Is ATRAC3plus data on SonicStage converted to MP3,WMA or WAV file format?
Q7. When I import MP3 files to SonicStage (for an ATRAC3plus conversion), can deterioration in the sound quality occur?
Q8. What is an ID3 tag?
Q9. Is it possible to create/edit ID3tag?
Q10. I cannot play back/convert WMA files in SonicStage.
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6 operation by "Transfer" screen
Q1. What is [Import Music Files]?
Q2. Is there a limit to transfer to the external device?
Q3. I have some music data transferred to device/media, and I want to recover my computer and reinstall SonicStage. Can the tracks transferred to device/media be transfered back to my computer after the restoration of the computer?
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7 Back up and Recovery
Q1. What is backup tool?
Q2. How can I backup all music files in SonicStage?
Q3. What happens when I perform a System Restore on my computer?
Q4. I want to backup/restore a part of audio data.
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8 CD burning
Q1. Can the CD-RW disc is burned for the application?
Q2. What kind of CD-R/RW medias can be used for the recording?
Q3. How many letters can be input on the CD for artist name and album name and else and maximally?
Q4. Can the mixed CD-R/RW with ATRAC3plus data, MP3 data, Wav data be created?
Q5. Can the created ATRAC CD, MP3 CD or Audio CD by CD-RW be edited by SonicStage?
Q6. The ATRAC CD/MP3 CD recording time is shortened, what is that happened?
Q7. The creating CD cannot be written additionally.
Q8. Burning to the CD-R/RW is failed.
Q9. Writing speeds that the CD-R/RW drives burning speeds cannot be selected.
Q10. The message 、gAn error has occurred while creating an image、h is appeared.
Q11. Can the creating CD be play backed for SonicStage?
Q12. Any format file can be created ATRAC CD/Audio CD/MP3 CD?
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