ch1m3ra Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 since all my sounds are encoded to m4a its a pain to have to convert to mp3 and then to atrac, is there a software, that will allow me to do this in one hit?rgds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 No, but it would be simpler and less of a quality hit for you to convert directly to uncompressed WAV and then use the resulting files to convert to atrac/3/plus.The fastest and simplest method, if you're using whole albums, is to write CD images using something like Nero [will Nero automatically use m4a files though - I honestly don't know], then mount the image using Nero Imagedrive, and dump them to MD / HiMD using Simple Burner.Converting m4a -> mp3 = an encoding generation loss... mp3 -> atrac/3/plus = another generation loss.. better to skip one of those generations, or, if possible, convert directly from the original source CD [which will take less time than either the way you're doing it now or the way I suggested above]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ch1m3ra Posted April 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 the only package i found to work well that converts m4a to mp3 is ImToo, not bad actually,however still a pain in the backside! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ch1m3ra Posted April 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 btw thanks dex Otakuok ok u guessed just trying to get my post stats up so i can become a forum supergod too :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug80 Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 Nero will support AAC when you install a plugin that you can download from http://neroplugins.cd-rw.org/.I guess the nero > image > simpleburner way is the best way to do it. I definitely don't recommend transcoding from AAC to MP3 to ATRAC.If you don't have Nero I'd suggest foobar for all your encoding/decoding/transcoding needs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 I'll back bug80 on foobar2000, and drop a hint towards dBPoweramp as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NRen2k5 Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 foobar gets my vote too. It's a very powerful program, if a bit difficult to use in the beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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