Thrutch Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 Hi all, I've just purchased my first MP3 player a Sony NW-A608, or should that be my first solid state Atrac player (upgraded from Minidisc)? Anyway, while I think the product is fantastic I find the documentation for the Connect Player software to be severely lacking, especially for a novice encoder like myself. I am just beginning to understand the difference between Atrac, Atrac3Plus, MP3 etc. I have been encoding the same song into different formats and bit rates. I have to say I could not tell any difference between Atrac3Plus 48 and 128, So that will be 50,000 songs on the player then ! So to my question. When you select a track to rip from CD onto the computer and right click on it a popup menu appears with 3 Rip options 'Rip','Quick Rip - Atrac','Quick Rip - MP3'. If you select 'Rip' the song is always encoded with the codec and bit rate selected in the 'Tools->Preferences->Cd Ripping' menu. If you select 'Quick Rip - Atrac' different things seem to happen. If the selected codec in the 'Tools->Preferences->Cd Ripping' menu is 'ATRAC3Plus' then 'Quick Rip - Atrac' encode to the setting in this menu. So in this instance 'Rip' and 'Quick Rip - Atrac' do the same thing. If you change the codec in the 'Tools->Preferences->Cd Ripping' menu to any other codec then the 'Rip' option rips to the selected codec and bit rate but selecting 'Quick Rip - Atrac' always seems to encode to ATRAC3Plus at 64kbps.I suppose what I am asking is "What is the point of Quick Rip if it encodes to such a low bit rate". I am missing something, doing something wrong or is ATRAC3Plus 64kbps a default standard ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_player Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 I suppose what I am asking is "What is the point of Quick Rip if it encodes to such a low bit rate". I am missing something, doing something wrong or is ATRAC3Plus 64kbps a default standard ?←You guessed right: 64kbps is the "standard" bit rate for Atrac, so you can use the "Quick Rip - Atrac" option to rip into that option at any time on any track, no matter what other settings you change in the ripping preferences.It's just an easy way to get the default settings, rather than messing around in the preferences all the time. Although, as you've experiment shows, your mileage may vary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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