innlaeufer Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Occasionally I use the Connect store to find music that is hard to come by locally. Usually these downloads come with a restriction to the number of times I can transfer them to MD. Now if I burn an audio CD with SonicStage and then re-import the CD into SS, the restrictions are gone.Now I wonder, does this process entail a considerable loss in audio quality? Or is that negligible?TIA for answers,innlaeufer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 The first step, burning to CD, should not result in quality loss because you are not compressing the files any further. But the second step, reimporting to SS, does involve another compression, so there is some quality loss, depending on what bitrate of ATRAC you are using to import--that is, how much you are compressing the file. Whether it's negligible depends on your ears and your playback system. Play an original Connect file and an imported-from-CD file side by side. How much difference do you hear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innlaeufer Posted December 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 How much difference do you hear?I don't hear much of a difference -- but I also never worried much about bitrates. I found out that the Connect store downloads are sampled at 132 (bits? whatever), whereas I import from CD's always at 256. But my guess is that the files don't become better innlaeufer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillako Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 All the music I've downloaded had no limits on number of transfers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 All the music I've downloaded had no limits on number of transfers!Innlaeufer, what version of SonicStage are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innlaeufer Posted December 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 I am using SS 4.2The limits of my downloads is given as four transfers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblueraja Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 I am using SS 4.2The limits of my downloads is given as four transfers.I have experienced the same restriction... very annoying. I paid for the darn file. I also think it is rediculous that when you pay for music to get it at such a low bitrate. I should be like 356k or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 I refuse to buy music with DRM. You can find a lot of independent music for download at Emusic : http://www.emusic.com . It uses .mp3 with no restrictions at all and is 100 percent legitimate. Try searching it for some of the music you were looking for to see if it makes sense for you to subscribe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblueraja Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 I refuse to buy music with DRM.Excellent point... and I hear Amazon.com is finally going to offer mp3s, and possibly non-DRM, but I'm not positive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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