maussdahauss Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Well everyone, I have JUST recently learned of atrac3plus, and i'm still kinda clueless with it. I know that sonicstage can take care of the converting problem, but I was wondering with what frequency would be best to use? I wasn't too sure if there was a noticable difference in some of them. My cpu speakers are crappy.. so I'm not trusting them on telling me that. Also, does converting between a couple different format's ruin/affect the quality?----Thanks so much, and sorry about the typos, I'm using a broken wrist to type, and the cast is no fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 (edited) Please don't double post. People will have a hard time to decide in which thread to post.Other than that, welcome to these boards - i'm certain you'll get satisfactory answers if you specify your question(s) a bit.Converting between lossy formats indeed affects sound quality in a negative way. Try to use 1st gen encodings exclusively for best sound quality. Edited January 7, 2006 by greenmachine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maussdahauss Posted January 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Aight, sorry bout the double post bro...I was just getting aggravated with no success because I wanted to make a D yesterday before it was too late, and didn't want to mess up my music.Besides that, thanks for the wamr welcome adn the info on format- skipping, i'm glad i didn't go ahead and mkae the cd now. As for the newer format I'm trying out, its proven to be better than mp3s and other files in all ways, besides the fact that ONLY few players can read it. A 128 kb/sec mp3 file is over twice the size of a 128 kb/sec atrac3plus file, so much smalelr for equal quality. I wasn't too sure if there was a big noticable difference in a 48 kb/sec frequency compared to a 128 kb/sec one.---Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 i locked the other thread. continue the discussion here please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerodB Posted January 8, 2006 Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 QUOTE: A 128 kb/sec mp3 file is over twice the size of a 128 kb/sec atrac3plus file...I'm sorry, I don't know where you are pulling that from, but a 128kbps mp3 file is exactly the same size as a 128kbps ATRAC3plus file. You are encoding the same track each time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maussdahauss Posted January 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 No, I'm dead serious. I knwo it soudns crazy, but using SonicStage, and converting the mp3 to Atrac3plus at 128kb/sec, it honestly became significantly smaller.And I actually went to go post a reply earlier today to block it when I realized it was already blocked, so good job ^.^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian10161 Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 128kbps in any encoding format will be the same size. maybe different by like 5 kb or so, but thats only for the tag information and the kind of tag used. are you sure your encoding to 128kbps? maybe the way you have it set up your converting to a lower bitrate, perhaps 48kbps. like zerodb said, are you encoding the same audio file? mp3 @ 128kbps will create a smaller file than wma @ 128kbps because of the tagging information. so at the most, your going to see + or - 10kb.-brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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