liquidray Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Hi ThereI just bought an RH1 and I am in the process of transfering my old (SP?) MD to my PC.My question is this - some of my MDs have tracks that I may also have somewhere on CD.What I dont know or understand is - is the quality of the recording on the stardard MD that I have the same or worse than on CD?Is the recording made onto MD lossless?Should I make an effort to find some of those original CDs or will I achieve the same quality with the MD transfer?Also what is the best setting for transfering MDs recording in SP to the PC (to preserve the best sound quality?)Many thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Hi ThereI just bought an RH1 and I am in the process of transfering my old (SP?) MD to my PC.My question is this - some of my MDs have tracks that I may also have somewhere on CD.What I dont know or understand is - is the quality of the recording on the stardard MD that I have the same or worse than on CD?Is the recording made onto MD lossless?Should I make an effort to find some of those original CDs or will I achieve the same quality with the MD transfer?Also what is the best setting for transfering MDs recording in SP to the PC (to preserve the best sound quality?)Many thanks!SP is 292kps and is lossy compression. The original CD's are better quality and you would be better making encoding PCM, HiSP or any other encoding from the original CD's than using your SP recordings. That said you may or maynot not hear/appreciate the difference depending on how good your ears and other equipment, for example your headphones etc. It really depends on how you intend listening/using your music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnght Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 SP is 292kps and is lossy compression. The original CD's are better quality and you would be better making encoding PCM, HiSP or any other encoding from the original CD's than using your SP recordings. That said you may or maynot not hear/appreciate the difference depending on how good your ears and other equipment, for example your headphones etc. It really depends on how you intend listening/using your music.Agreed I use the LP4 compression myself and it suits my listening needs perfectly well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Agreed I use the LP4 compression myself and it suits my listening needs perfectly well.LP4 the horror Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdroid Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Hi ThereI just bought an RH1 and I am in the process of transfering my old (SP?) MD to my PC.My question is this - some of my MDs have tracks that I may also have somewhere on CD.What I dont know or understand is - is the quality of the recording on the stardard MD that I have the same or worse than on CD?Worse, because it's encoded to ATRAC, a lossy compression codec.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATRAChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_data_compressionBut if you can't tell, I guess it doesn't matter. [is the recording made onto MD lossless?In PCM mode it is...Should I make an effort to find some of those original CDs or will I achieve the same quality with the MD transfer?I would find the CDs.Also what is the best setting for transfering MDs recording in SP to the PC (to preserve the best sound quality?)Many thanks!PCM mode is what you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1kyle Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 Worse, because it's encoded to ATRAC, a lossy compression codec.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATRAChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_data_compressionBut if you can't tell, I guess it doesn't matter. In PCM mode it is...I would find the CDs.PCM mode is what you want.If you've still got the original CD's it might be better for you to re-rip these using Simle Burner or SS as you can get Track and Title info added automatically. Your original SP stuff probably didn't have this unless you edited it manually.CD's copied to MD in SP mode are pretty good but HI-SP is better if you have the new units. Hi-SP will give you almost double the time as SP on standard MD's as well.If LP2 suits you then that's fine but I wouldn't upload the SP stuff and re-encode it again.If you upload to computer I'd re-rip the CD's to ATRAC LOSSLESS -- this stores the tracks in a Lossless format and saves disc space. Then you can encode to whatever format takes your fancy. If at a later stage you decide you want to get an IPOD or whatever you can concert the ATRAC LOSSLESS to WAV (also lossless) and then use whatever software you have to convert the WAV into the format you need for the IPOD / whatever.Don't convert a Lossy Format to another Lossy format as you'll degrade the quality very quickly indeed.Cheers-K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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