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Can you transfer/convert directly from CD to an ATRAC device?

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Well just got my HD3 and I'm starting to "import" some CDs in ATRAC3plus and copying them over to the device...

But I'm noticing SS (using 3.4) doesn't allow you to just go straight from CD to the device. You have to "import" the CD first and then transfer to the HD3. Is this the only way to do it?

I remember that older SonicStage versions (like 2.x) would let you go from the CD directly over to the device (like a NetMD); but as I recall it still left the OMG/OMA/whatever files on your PC taking up HDD space...

My goal here, really, is to transfer CDs to the HD3 in ATRAC3plus 352kbps but *NOT* have the ATRAC files stay on my PC. For PC use it's best that I stick to MP3 (for a variety of reasons) and I already have a lot of CDs ripped to 320k MP3; I don't want to have to have 2 collections of music on my PC just because of the HD3, and I would like to use ATRAC3plus on the HD3 instead of MP3.

I'm never going to use ATRAC files on my PC other than for transferring to the HD3. I know I can manually delete the imported CDs from SonicStage afterwards but I'm wondering if there's a way for me to do this so SS [essentially] rips from the CD right to the HD3 without cluttering up my HDD.

Is this possible?

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:( Yeah I figured as much since I found nothing I could do in SS no matter what I tried.

That's kind of stupid though. Once again they just make it harder for you to use their own ATRAC format. I don't get why they keep pursuing ATRAC--if they don't make it easier for people to use only less and less people are going to use it.

I'm still sticking to it as much as I can, but to say the least it is really frustrating.

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I agree! here is a post on the subject "A new simple burner needed"

I also think that it would be cool to have an option to burn cd directly to an atrac device. It would save space on the PC, and we could also burn directly in high kbps codecs and in pcm (but sony should previously add the feature on HDD players...)

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