Delta Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I converted a bunch of songs, that are CBR at 128Kbps and 144Kbps to ATRAC3 / 66Kbps like I always do for a longer playing time, some songs will play fine, but 99% of them will sound like they are playing at double speed.I used to transfer my songs from Mp3 to my Sony MZ-N510 player using Sonicstage 2.1 but suddenly it stopped being able to convert ANY of my songs and said "SonicStage does not support the file format"I downloaded SS3.1, and he was again able to convert and transfer the songs, but many are playing at double speed.What can I do ? My PC is a Windows 2000, Pentium 4, 2.8Ghz, 1GB RAMI am using SonicStage 3.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I converted a bunch of songs, that are CBR at 128Kbps and 144Kbps to ATRAC3 / 66Kbps like I always do for a longer playing time, some songs will play fine, but 99% of them will sound like they are playing at double speed.←I believe I read here on MDCF that CBR and VBR MP3's van cause SS to behave strangely or to crash it... try converting your MP3's to non-CBR's and try again... if it persists, let us knowBTW, I'm definitely no MP3 expert, just repeat what I've read (as I don't have/use MP3's) but give it a try...Greetings, Volta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 (edited) I believe I read here on MDCF that CBR and VBR MP3's van cause SS to behave strangely or to crash it... try converting your MP3's to non-CBR's and try again... if it persists, let us know←I think you're confusing CBR and VBR here. AFAIK, VBR is more likely to cause troubles with incapable software/hardware.You could try to decode the MP3's beforehand to linear pcm (*.wav) and feed sonicstage with that.Or better, if you have the uncompressed source (CD, etc.) available, feed it directly with it, try to avoid transcoding from one lossy format to another whenever possible. Edited June 12, 2005 by greenmachine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 I think you're confusing CBR and VBR here. ←nope, I wasn't...I just remembered the thread (and the post) wrong ! The post actually stated that VBR and CBR MP3's should be able to convert and/or transfer without problemssorry, I'm afraid I really can't help then...VoltaP.S.: I really know as much about MP3 as I do about knitting sweaters... nothing whatsoever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sum_yong Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 did u install the 'ffdshow' codecs? if yes, then that's the problem, try uninstall ffdshow and see if it helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Posted June 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 (edited) I am using CBR and not VBR and ffdshow is not installed. I can't imagine converting my mp3 to wav so that Sonicstage can convert them back properly to ATRAC3 ? for each minidisk it would take 2.5GB of space, it would fill up my hardrive in no time!What broke version 2.1? it was working fine on two PC's, until march 2005 ? was it a microsoft update, or a timed bomb in sonicstage 2.1? Edited June 12, 2005 by Delta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrius Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Yes, but you can delete the wav and keep the original MP3 after you transfer them to MD. And 80 mins of wav do not take 2.5 GB. More like 700 MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Posted June 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 (edited) Well I found a way, I re-encoded all my mp3 back to MP3 at 128Kbits-44Khz using Winamp and the regular Disk Writer pluggin. There must have been something SS3.1 did not like in the way the mp3 were encoded the first time. I still don't know why SS2.1 stopped working but At least now I can listen to my songs at normal speed again. Edited June 13, 2005 by Delta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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