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Good article, however I had to laugh at this bit relating to ATRAC: "Sony's basic techniques would later be adapted and refined by the MP3 format." I beg your pardon!!! ATRAC is a true Hi-Fi compression technology (although many people would probably argue that there's no such thing), compared to layer 3 of the MPEG format stripped from it's ugly mother and tampered with by everybody under the sun. That's enough of my bitterness for tonight! Just can't help defending my precious MiniDisc format...

I appreciate your help, but this is still adding another 'generation' of compression. Although the audio will be digital, it is effectively doing the following: - PLAY: Convert ATRAC file into WAV/PCM type audio - RECORD: Convert WAV/PCM back into ATRAC There WILL be further loss, although negligable with something as superior as ATRAC, but this will definately add another compression step into the file. The method you suggest is NOT transferring raw ATRAC data from 1 disc to another. Anyone else care to comment? Thanks

Thanks 1kyle for taking the time to reply, but your method still effectively 'uncompresses the file', then 're-compresses' it at the other end. This is ideally what I need to avoid (fussy, I know!!!). Cheers

Basically, I need a method of transferring an old SP track (pre NetMD) to another disc. Doesn't have to COPY it, just need to MOVE it without further ATRAC encoding. Any ideas? Cheers!

(Thanks for looking) I've tried all sorts of tricks (removing SCMS info etc..) to try to upload old SP tracks(292kbps) via SonicStage 3.4, in order to transfer them to another disc - without them being reprocessed by ATRAC. (I can currently transfer a track using studio equipment, digitally to CD and then back to MD, but this obviously reprocesses it) Is the ONLY way to do this (i.e. move) old MD tracks by using the MDS-W1 dual MD drive deck? If anyone has a clever way of doing this (or wants to loan/sell me their MDS-W1 deck) please let me know. Or is the answer just "No"?!!!?? Cheers