803cd Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 Hi AllI have been sent some music which is encoded as an ogg vorbis file 65k bit rate (*.ogg). What's the best way to convert this to atrac/atrac3/atrac3plus so I can listen to this on my Hi-MD player - sonic stage doesn't seem able to cope with this file type?Cheers 803cd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 Decode it to wav and feed sonicstage with that. After the process, delete the wavs.This site might help to find a decoder:http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrius Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 Jet Audio will convert them to Wav too, or WMA Lossless which SS will take gladly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
803cd Posted October 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 OK - I have converted the file to wav no problem and imported to sonic stage 3.2. SS can convert this to atrac but if I delete the wav file (over 1Gb!) SS removes my nice atrac file too. What am I doing wrong??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrius Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 1 GB WAV??? WTF?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
803cd Posted October 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 It's 3 hours of stuff in one file. I know I can split it up into smaller chunks but I still have the problem of deleting the wav automatically deleting the atrac?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrius Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 (edited) Odd. I just tried to do that, and nothing happened. My guess is that what you're doing is converting the Wav to Atrac on the fly, and therefore when you delete it, the imported file disappears.Try this:Import the wav.Right click it and choose "convert format".Convert it to your favorite flavor.Right click it again. Choose properties and move to the last tab, "File info". You'll see two files in the window at the upper left. Select the wav, and hit "delete file". That will keep the Atrac file and its entry into SS. Make sure you uncheck the copy protection option when you convert, too.I don't see why you want to keep the Atrac though, if you have the original wav and ogg, and it's not like you're going to transfer that Atrac over and over, right? Edited October 31, 2005 by Syrius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 When you delete a track from My Library in SonicStage, you can check or uncheck "Delete this track from my computer" and keep the .wav if you want to. But I don't see why you would. The .wav file is going to be monstrous in size, and its quality won't be any better than the original (and much smaller) .ogg. Just keep the .ogg file, and the ATRAC if need be, and delete the .wav, either through SonicStage or just with Windows Explorer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
803cd Posted October 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Thanks all - have now managed to delete the wav and keep atrac. A440 is right - the wav was a beast of a file which would have just clogged up my hard drive (1Gb out of my hard drive's 80Gb), I can always recreate from the ogg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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