luka007be

Hi Rich, So we both came to the same conclusions and solutions. I also manually add the tags (artist, album) when importings wavs to my Atrac device... I just wish you're wrong on the plan of Sony regarding the Flac support Luka.

Absolutely. This is similar to my "method ": FLAC –(dbpoweramp)--> WAV –(SonicStage)--> OMA(Atrac) --> NW-HD: Gapless playback is fine but Tags are lost! Going through CDs will not resolve the tagging issue. And as I own the original CDs, I just don't want to rip again hundreds of them to store them on my NW-HD. Luka.

Well, I didn't find anything. Whilst googling, I found another post on the same subject (Flac -> Atrac) and without solution. So the issue remains... Luka.

As SonicStage can import WMA files, I tried the following method: FLAC --(dbpoweramp)--> WMA --(SonicStage)--> OMA (Atrac) --> NwHd • WMA format allows lossless compression I selected (44khz, 16 bits: identical to original FLAC files). • The tags are preserved. • Unfortunately, whilst the WMA files are played without any gap in the Windows Media Player, a gap is introduced by the WMA --> Atrac conversion. Am I missing something for a gapless WMA -> Atrac conversion? Luka.

As expected the FLAC --> MP3 --> Atrac --> NW-HD is working at the Tag level but the gaps created by the MP3 format aren't recovered when converting MP3 to Atrac. So the MP3 -> Atrac conversion doesn't help (exept for the power saving). Luka. FLAc -> Atrac conversion is certainly the best solution. Unfortunatelly I'm still looking for a solution allowing this. (See my trial with Marcnet HIMDRenderer software). Regarding the MP3 quality versus the Atrac quality, at the same bitrate for both (256kbps) it doesn't make a lot of differences to me considering how and where I'm listening to my NW-HD. Luka.

Hi Stuge, Tx for your suggestion and your welcome I don't like very much the idea of a dual conversion. It won't help the sound quality, I think. Also, I guess the gaps due to the MP3 format won't be recovered by the MP3 to Atrac conversion. Anyway I'll give it a try and report the results. Luka.

Hi, I’m looking for a 'simple' way of transferring my music collection ripped into FLAC format and duly tagged (Vorbis Comment) to my Sony NW-HD. I tried 3 different methods: a) FLAC -–(dbpoweramp)--> MP3 –(SonicStage)--> NW-HD: works fine, with Tags but doesn’t allow a gapless playback. Quite annoying for live’s records, … FLAC –(dbpoweramp)--> WAV –(SonicStage)--> OMA(Atrac) --> NW-HD: Gapless playback is fine but Tags are lost! c) Using HI-MD Renderer Program from MarcNetSystem (www.marcnetsystem.co.uk) I was able to convert a FLAC file to an OMA (Atrac) file. However, I didn’t find the way of “importing” the oma file into the Walkman (with SonicStage) nor am I sure the tags were preserved. Any better way? Tx a lot for your input! Luka.