movingshadow

so the only advantage you'd have by still transferring the music in atrac format is the longer duration of the mp3-player battery? how big is the difference (several hours?)?

wow, cool! saved the day dude! greetz, shadow.

believe me, i would stick to mp3 (and all my files on the harddrive are mp3), but i'm thinking of getting an mp3 player from sony (the NW-E002) and i think all mp3 files get converted into an atrac format when i transfer them to the player via sonicstage. i don't think they just get copied to the player in the mp3 format i have them in... but i figured out that there are other programs available (besides sonic stage) to get the mp3 files just like you have them on your harddrive onto the mp3 player. maybe those programs would be the best solution. i just thought that maybe this atrac format would be an improvement and i could fit more songs on the player in this format (at good quality) than with the lame mp3 format. greetz, shadow.

thanx for your reply nav! i'll have to do some listening/testing now to figure out which bitrate sounds ok to me. talking "lame mp3" i'm used to 192kb/s, but i don't know what the equivalent would be with the atrac3/atrac3plus. any idea? thx, shadow.

hello forum users! i just have one quick question regarding the compression options in sonic stage 4.2: when i go to the filetype/bitrate settings menu i see the following options: atrac, atrac advanced lossless, wav, mp3,... if i choose the very first one (atrac) and then open the bitrate box i see the available bitrates and next to 132kb/s it says "atrac3". i've heard about the atrac3plus method (in combination with the 64kb/s) and would prefer that over the atrac3, but unfortunately i don't have an entry next to any bitrate (also not next to 64kb/s) where it would say "atrac3plus". do i have to install a seperate codec to be able to choose the atrac3plus? or why else would it say "atrac3" only next to the 132kb/s entry and nowhere else? what happens with all the others bitrate settings, will the songs be atrac3, or atrac3plus, or what? or is the whole thing just not explained properly and actually every bitrate setting (in the atrac entry) is atrac3plus anyway? which would bring me back to the question why it says "atrac3" next to the 132kb/s in the first place?!? please help! thanx a lot, shadow.