dex Otaku Posted November 12, 2005 Report Share Posted November 12, 2005 I fully expected the new 352kbps atrac3plus rate to not work with Simple Burner [which would require an update itself to show the bitrate, even though the codec is present after installing SS 3.3] .. I am, however, a bit surprised to see that if I try to import a CD into SS to put on HiMD, the 352kbps option is completely missing. MP3 - sure. WMA - sure. Atrac lossless - sure. But no 352kbps in the atrac3plus menu, which maxes out at the [HiMD incompatible] rate of 320kbps.Another surprise .. there is now a menu option in there for "encoding quality" - either "normal (fast)" or "high". It seems some of our requests have been listened to once again, which is really nice to see. Hopefully I'll get around to trying this out with LP2 to see if there's any difference between them. I found LP2 encoding to be absolutely dismal with most audio in previous versions.As an addition - while trying to import tracks with the quality setting on "high" and nothing else producing system load, SS crashes.Side-note: yes, 352kbps is available to me as an option from the library, meaning I can transcode files of any format SS understands to a3+ 352kbps. No CD importing, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerodB Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Yes, this whole thing with the bitrates seems a bit stupid. At the moment the only option is to transcode from a WAV (or lossless WMA) in SS to get the 352kbps bitrate.Just can't understand Sony's logic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted November 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 As much as I've demonised Sony's software division in the past, this really seems like a matter of having half-implemented something and forgotten the other half or just not gotten to it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Connect Player is in its infancy and they need something to supplement the masses until it's stable, so they basically threw some keen features of that into SS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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