Is "Magic Gate" biting you?

Post #260,593 by Another Scott 7/3/06 8:27:19 AM 7/3/06 9:06:01 AM Reply	Is "Magic Gate" biting you? [link\|http://www.memorystick.com/en/lifestyle/music/tech02.html\|Magic Gate] is Sony's copy protection stuff for music files, etc. It sounds like either a switch was set, or the Memory Stick thinks the content should be protected. I don't understand why it won't let you erase it though. I also don't know why it would be applying it to your own .mp3 files (which presumably aren't intentionally copy protected). HTH a bit. Good luck! [edit:] Oh, another thing. 2 GB is very large. Could it be too big for your device(s)? I don't know that that's a problem - it's just another something that you might want to check. Cheers, Scott. Edited by Another Scott July 3, 2006, 09:06:01 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #260,654 by static 7/3/06 10:38:29 PM Reply	Not all Memory Sticks have Magic Gate. Of course, that might not be so with the Duo sticks. Wade. "Insert crowbar. Apply force."
Post #260,657 by StevenYap 7/3/06 11:17:24 PM Reply	Re: Is "Magic Gate" biting you? Yeah, MagicGate is present on the memory stick. The SonyEricsson W810 is capable of reading/writing to Pro DUO memory sticks of up to 2GB in size, so it's definitely not the device that's the problem. It's rather amusing to me that the phone came with a Sandisk 512 MB Pro DUO stick instead of a Sony branded one, and I bought the phone from the Sony Store to boot! :) Oh, well. I've returned the memory stick for a full refund. I would have liked to have gotten an exchange instead, but the retailer didn't have any in stock. They did have a 4GB Pro DUO memory stick for $350.00 Canadian dollars though... Definitely a weird experience with a flash device. I've gotten myself a USB multi-card reader so that I won't have to transfer files using the phone's USB cable. It looks like my AMD64 Ubuntu installation and the phone doesn't play nice. Bummer.

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