Pug Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 The scenario is that I am exclusivley using atrac LP2 (132kbs) for my codec and bitrate of choice. Mainly as I have always thought that the sound quality is excelent and the file sizes acceptable. The other primary reason I have chosen LP2 is for backwards compatability. I can see in the future me picking up a rather nice Net-MD or even MDLP recorder/player (perhaps even a deck) and LP2 will be compatible with this.... or so I thought...I'm running Sonicstage 3.4 and selecting files (mp3's) and converting to 132kbps - tranfwering to Hi-MD no problems. However whenI try to transfer to a Net-MD Sonicstage actually transcodes a second copy of the atrac file and transfers! therefore ripping the whole of my library in 132kbps for backwards compatibility is a rather futile exercise... or so I thought...It transpires that with the apply copy protection ckeckbox selected the LP2 tracks will transfer to both HI-MD and Net-MD. Copy proection i appears is a pre-requisit for Net-MD recordings. I will test this evening if these "copy protected" files can be transfered from pc>pc with the new advantages of sonicstage 3.4.The moral of this post is if you are converting a lot of muisc to LP2 for use with Net-MD make sure you apply copy protection. CheersPug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauljones52 Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Very true, but then again you may have problems when moving your music collection to another computer or upgrading sonicstage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwakrz Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 It might not be transcoding but encrypting.I doubt that sony will go through a generation loss just to keep the bitrate the same, it is probably encrypting the file before sending it to the player.Hold on, this is sony though, could well be re-enoding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 It might not be transcoding but encrypting.This is quite bizarre as a whole .. especially considering the fact that netMD doesn't use encryption on the discs. netMD copy protection is, to the best of my knowledge [and we've been discussing this in other threads on days ago] limited to TOC retrofit/hacks and SCMS .. so .. this is totally bizarre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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