Damage Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 1. First thing first, if your Clie's made before 2002, you can more or less forget about MS Pro Support. The first Clies with such support probably came out late 2002 or 2003. If it doesn't have the MS Pro logo (MS logo with Pro on the bottom), you're SOL, even with the 128MB and 64MB MS Pro sticks (long story short, it's all on FAT16 vs FAT32, and wouldn't you know it, it's hardcoded in Clies...).2. Chances are (conjecture), the new bitrates will probaly work on all Atrac3plus devices without too much difficulty (I'd have to assume at this point that the CODEC at least chip or VLSI wise is same all across the board except for some models!). The biggest kicker for HiMDs come with the first generation HiMD units, and as such, Sony may consider just keeping HiMDs limited to PCM, HiSP, HiLP, and HiLP48. I believe it's been verified that the CODEC on the first gen HiMDs are not same as CODEC chip on 2nd gen or other ATRAC devices. And as such, keeping with Sony's Backwards Compatibility mantra, it'd make sense to keep HiMDs locked in those bitrates...Or so I'd say, if they didn't decide to introduce MP3 playback ability with 2nd gen HiMDs. This smells like a 3.3 or 3.4 or even 4.0 release. Save the first gen units, I suspect that all ATRAC3plus devices can play the "new" bitrates.As a side note, I'd like to remind those of us who missed it the first generation ATRAC CD units released way back in 2003(?), 2002 had the "undocumented" ability to play 256kbps ATRAC3plus files.The next few upgrades should be quite interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shael Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Oh man so happy to have found this place.. i've always stuck to v 2.3 because I love using groups and 3.2 seemed to never attatch the artist name to folders rather just the albums as I drag them accross.. anyone know how do change this ? i would save me typing in about 150 band names into all the groups.Also, now that i'm switched to 3.2 for the new bit-rates, i dont know why.. but even when i choose specific bitrate mode, It still transfers my songs as MP3s !! its soo annoying. I have an NW-HD1 that was upgraded to NW-HD3 firmware..I shoulda stuck with only atrac3 but I didnt know that atrac3 would sound better..also where do you find these battery life comparisons with the different bitrates?what can i do ?!please help !Shael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted October 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Oh man so happy to have found this place.. ←Welcome to ALC, Shael!I noticed you have re-posted your queries in the appropriate section of the forum. For future reference, please post problem related queries in its appropriate section; the news thread is not the place for such queries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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