Best Bit Rates for copying and transfering

[Stan's Fan]

I am very new to this Sonic Stage ATRAC3 Plus system so I ask your forgiveness for posting very basic questions to this forum. I have just purchased a Sony NW-E407 Flash Memory and will be using it to play ripped songs from my CD collection. My desire is to use good quality sound reproduction but not necessarily near CD quality.

Before posting this enquiry, I have searched this Forum (and the Sony website) for a solution to my specific problem but without success. The confusing area for me is as follows:-

If I specify an ATRAC3 Plus bit rate when copying from a CD to my Sonic Stage Library on my PC under “Music Source”, should I then use the same bit rate (or as near as possible) under “Transfer ATRAC Audio Device” when copying the music file to my Sony flash card device? I gather that I would need to use “Settings” and “Specified bit rate transfer mode” to achieve this and not the default “Standard Transfer Mode”.

Could I ask what is a good bit rate to select for both of these operations for good quality sound? I am not really interested in getting the maximum number of song files onto my flash card although the actual copying time could become of significance.

One other thing while I am in silly question mode; although I can change the song titles in “My Library”, no matter what I do, I am not able to save the changes permanently. I have noticed that I am able to change a song name when I have just imported a song from a CD and change the name immediately before copying the song to my Sony Flash Memory but this only saves the altered name on the flash card not in my library.

I would be most grateful for any assistance. Many thanks in advance.

Stan’s Fan.

[pata2001]

If I specify an ATRAC3 Plus bit rate when copying from a CD to my Sonic Stage Library on my PC under “Music Source”, should I then use the same bit rate (or as near as possible) under “Transfer ATRAC Audio Device” when copying the music file to my Sony flash card device?  I gather that I would need to use “Settings” and “Specified bit rate transfer mode” to achieve this and not the default “Standard Transfer Mode”.

Could I ask what is a good bit rate to select for both of these operations for good quality sound?  I am not really interested in getting the maximum number of song files onto my flash card although the actual copying time could become of significance.

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You definitely want to use the same bitrate for both settings. Setting them to different bitrates will result in transcoding, which degrades quality further. The E407 only supports specific bitrates of Atrac3/3+. If you want best quality, choose Atrac3+ 256kbps. If you want good quality/more space, pick Atrac3 132kbps. If you really want to cram many songs, pick Atrac3+ 64kbps. It sounds decent enough outdoors. If you have Sonicstage 3.2, don't bother with the other bitrates, since they are not supported on your unit (except 192kbps, but I cannot confirm that). As for the setting in the "transfer" screen, pick the standard mode. This way, your music won't get transcoded, and transferred as is.

IMO, since the E407 supports MP3, I would just encode all the music to MP3s. Use Atrac only if you need gapless, or if you need to cram tons of music (by using Atrac3+ 64kbps). MP3 Lame --preset fast medium is very good.

[Stan's Fan]

Thank you very much for this help pata2001. Can I just ask you what the "Lame" part of MP3 means? I said that I very new to all of this.

[madleet3]

hi all iam new too

btw wat is a gapless?

actually i was at sonystyle at my own country i try the demo on the e505

its was recorded at atrac+ 64kps its in a shopp cte

the shop is

and is sound notbad doh

but i try the HD5 the sound i forgot it which format but is atrac too but its sound warm and more cool

maybe its in higher kps?

btw is there any calcution or chart on the atrac3+ 64 128 256 kps

storage place is recorded?

is i know its not as the same as mp3?

[Guest Stuge]

LAME is an open source MP3 (that is, MPEG-1 audio layer 3) audio compression application. LAME is a recursive acronym for LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder, although the current version is a stand-alone encoder. (See below.)

The consensus (as of 2004) seems to be that LAME produces the highest quality MP3 files for (average) bitrates of 128 kbit/s and higher. In a public listening test early in 2004, 128 kbit/s LAME MP3 files were the least detectable when compared to uncompressed audio

but it seams to me the lamemp3 is new format then old mp3(only)

[Guest Stuge]

hi all iam new too

btw wat is a gapless?

actually i was at sonystyle at my own country i try the demo on the e505

its was recorded at atrac+ 64kps  its in a shopp cte

the shop is

and is sound notbad doh

but i try the HD5 the sound i forgot it which format but is atrac too but its sound warm and more cool

maybe its in higher kps?

btw is there any calcution or chart on the atrac3+ 64 128 256 kps

storage place is recorded?

is i know its not as the same as mp3?

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Gapless playback is the seamless playback of digital audio formats. It allows live music or consecutive tracks to be heard exactly as they are mastered, without gaps between tracks.(Without any pause basically b/w the concecutive tracks).

If i`m able to understand ur next question then u must looks here.

linkThe maximum recording time is shown .

Edited November 20, 2005 by Stuge

[madleet3]

cool thx