tothehilt Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 I am having a problem playing ATRAC CDs I have made using Sonic Stage 3.2. I can see that the data is on the CD but when I try an open it using Sonic stage nothing happens. The contents don't show up in the right hand window, nor can I figure out how to imp[ort the CD. Anyone have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 AtracCD is only playable on AtracCD devices, nothing else. There is no way to extract the music from AtracCD, period. It's a dead-end format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sector001 Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 u mean u can't even play it on the PC's DVD rom drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tothehilt Posted September 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 AtracCD is only playable on AtracCD devices, nothing else. There is no way to extract the music from AtracCD, period. It's a dead-end format. So even Sonic Stage will not recognize and play them? I had intended to back up my library using ATRAC CDs. Very unthoughtful of Sony not to enable Sonic Stage to extract ATRAC files from a CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 (edited) So even Sonic Stage will not recognize and play them? I had intended to back up my library using ATRAC CDs. Very unthoughtful of Sony not to enable Sonic Stage to extract ATRAC files from a CD.Dude , Again portable Atrac CD player , RadioShack .... 39 dollars http://www.radioshack.com/sm-sony-portable...pi-2429420.htmlhttp://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores...2&langId=-1http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores...categoryId=3723Get one with optical out (most do now) , 490 songs per disc , at lowest bit rate I assume , but you wil always be able to program play , connect to your MD and redo it all . Edited September 13, 2007 by Guitarfxr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 u mean u can't even play it on the PC's DVD rom drive?Nope.So even Sonic Stage will not recognize and play them? I had intended to back up my library using ATRAC CDs. Very unthoughtful of Sony not to enable Sonic Stage to extract ATRAC files from a CD.Nope. AtracCD is not intended for a backup, only for a dead-end playback system.Dude , Again portable Atrac CD player , RadioShack .... 39 dollars http://www.radioshack.com/sm-sony-portable...pi-2429420.htmlhttp://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores...2&langId=-1http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores...categoryId=3723Get one with optical out (most do now) , 490 songs per disc , at lowest bit rate I assume , but you wil always be able to program play , connect to your MD and redo it all .Don't mislead the OP.The one at Radioshack, the DNE050PSBLK doesn't support Atrac.None of the models listed at Sonystyle has optical out. The most recent Sony PCDPs that have optical out is the NE20 and NE920, both are discontinued.Even on units that have optical out, AtracCD can only be outputted through the analog-out. And is it really wise re-encoding Atrac3+ 48kbps (to get 490 songs)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 I guess that would depend on what quality you want them at . You can easily go with higher quality less songs , CDr's are cheap , and CD folders arent far behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tothehilt Posted September 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Nope.Nope. AtracCD is not intended for a backup, only for a dead-end playback system.Don't mislead the OP.The one at Radioshack, the DNE050PSBLK doesn't support Atrac.None of the models listed at Sonystyle has optical out. The most recent Sony PCDPs that have optical out is the NE20 and NE920, both are discontinued.Even on units that have optical out, AtracCD can only be outputted through the analog-out. And is it really wise re-encoding Atrac3+ 48kbps (to get 490 songs)? Wow. "Even on units that have optical out, AtracCD can only be outputted through the analog-out. And is it really wise re-encoding Atrac3+ 48kbps (to get 490 songs)?" OK then, it is either leave the music on mini discs or make multiple backups on hard drives if you want to secure high quality sound. I have too many MD encoded at LP4 ( live concerts recorded off the radio) to bother converting them to WAV CDs. I may buy one of the ATRAC CD players just as a way of playing things in the car, but I already own 3 mini disc players. I guess Sony's strategy has worked well on me! I suppose I would save a few quid by transferring all the LP4s to ATRac CD's and then reusing the MD, but the time isn't really worth it. Probably better off to just put the money I would spend on an ATRAC player into more Hi MD discs and leave the old stuff on the 80 minute MDs. This is making the long awaited purchase of the MZ-M200 I made rather underwhelming. Other than the few live events I would like to make CDs for to hand out to friends, it is hardly worth the trouble to upload, and backup onto two hard discs just to save a one dollar MD. Not much advantage other than the organizational convenience of the hard disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentek Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 Do any of you MD fans ever convert your Atrac .oma files to MP3 or other formats?I recently looks at a couple of very cheap tools that say they will do the conversion. I am looking for a way to use sound tracks mastered on my MD on movies edited and rendered to NTSC DVDs.Am I missing something here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 Hi-MD renderer is a great tool for converting ATRAC to MP3, and is available for free in the downloads section here. I've converted most of my SS Library to 192 and 320 kbps MP3 for playback on CD portables and the Hi-Fi and haven't really noticed any degradation in sound quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 All the portables I have had , had Optical , I have two now that Have optical , NE820 , and EJ855, I had a 771 awhile back , but sold it after I got the 820 . I havent use ATRAC Cd , so I didnt know they couldnt be Toslinked . I have done MP3 CD , and they can be . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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