Importing MP3 into SS 3.3

[Nandro]

I am pretty new to SS, having used Rio MP3 devices and then changing over to iPod. Before I get the iPod abuse, it does have a lot of advantages that I wont get into. My issue currently as my wife has claimed the iPod due to the FM transmitter letting her listen while she drives, leaves me happily with my D-NE710 PCDP. This thing sounds great, and I have no issues with sound quality or ATRAC for that matter. To me, Open source, closed, who cares as long as I enjoy my tunes. Anyhow to the issue. I have some live recordings that I have imported into iTunes for my wife and the bit rate is 225. When I import the same songes they show un in SS as 128 no matter what I try. Is there a setting I am missing? I have read all the manuals and searched and cannot find what I am doing wrong. Anyhow sorry if its a silly question, 1st time poster, go easy on me!

[chris_caudy]

If i'm correct, aren't there settings in the SS Tools menu to set your preferences as to how you would like to store any imported files in the SS LIbrary, if they're being imported as 128k files then this is your problem. It's the page that mentions how much hard disc page is required to store imported audio. Options are ATRAC (several bitrates), ATRACplus (several bitrates), uncompressed wave format etc. I'm sorry if this isn't clear, I'm not at a SS equipped machine here. For example, I import CD audio uncompressed (1411kbs) to allow for various encoding rates be it ATRAC or MP3 or just to copy a CD. Also I'm not sure which sampling rates that SS is happy with. IIRC earlier versions of SS wouldn't accept 48k sample rate MP3s. Get the import preferences right and your encoding preferences for MP3 on CD and you should be away.

Regards