skooch

Oh i see, well that explains the quoted sizes. Sorry to ask again but could you recommend if its worth converting my library to atrac and what kind of savings in terms of file size could i expect to get. Also, does anyone know of a third party mp3 to atrac converter ?

My PC is a P4 3ghz with 1gb Ram so I thinks is ok in terms of processing power. I just thought there would be an easier way to convert but as you say maybe its not worth it. Do users generally leave the format as mp3 then ? I am a little dissapointed that the HD5 is sold as 20gb but you actually can only use 18Gb. I can't beleieve that the player needs 2Gb to play songs !

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me with this. I have a HD5 and I am using Sonicstage 3.4. All my music is in mp3 format and all works fine. I would like to convert these mp3's to atrac so as to save space on my HD5 so as also to get more music onto it. I know you can right click files in sonicstage and choose convert but i don't want to have to go throgh that many files and convert them manually. Also converting them on the fly as they are transferred to the HD5 takes too long. I tried installing sonys mp3 converter but everytime i start it it says that i have to have sonicstage 2.1 or above to work. I have Sonicstage 3.4 so i have no idea what its problem is. Can anyone sugest a solution to either why the mp3 converter doesn't work or a more efficent way to convert my mp3's. Thanks !