Things Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 Woof!. Please can anyone tell me the preffered ATRAC3 compression form (HiSP Hi LP LP2 etc) for transfering MP3s from PC to MD. I believe (maybe wrongly) that there is no point in choosing the lower compression rates as the MP3 format has already stolen a lot of the quality from the original source. Thanks..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 edit: pwnt by Latexxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latexxx Posted December 29, 2004 Report Share Posted December 29, 2004 Yes. You want to put 128 mp3 as 256 atrac3plus into md because using anything worse will crap your mp3 even further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NRen2k5 Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 In my opinion, use Hi-SP for MP3's that already sound very good. Use the old LP2 for ones that don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skradgee Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Using original ATRAC3 @ 132 kbps seems to be the 'best' compromise between disc space and sound quality (in my humble opinion). MP3s that were encoded at VBR or 192kbps will still sound good like that, but I'm sure there are people who will disagree with me on that. If sound quality is all that matters to you, stick with Atrac3plus @ 256 kbps.-Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 The general rule of thumb is that whatever you transcode (be it MP3->ATRAC, or MP3->OGG for instance), there will be some loss of quality. Whether or not you'll notice them in general portable settings is another question.For the most part, you wouldn't notice much if you're transcoding MP3 (256kbps or 320kbps) into HiSP, or 128kbps MP3 to ATRAC3 (132 or 105). I have best success thus far with the latter, though using HiLP was also acceptable.I'm sure there are some folks crining their noses as if this is verboten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeriyn Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 It's actually best to do something outrageous like maybe buy your music and rip it directly from CD... Then, transcoding is a non-issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skradgee Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 It's actually best to do something outrageous like maybe buy your music and rip it directly from CD... Then, transcoding is a non-issue.Agreed. Anytime that you can skip a step and make less transcoding/encoding/reencoding happen, your ears will be better off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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