Converting ATRAC to Mp3?

[Rikko]

Is their any way to convert OpenMG Audio files to mp3?

[JSP62]

Unfortunately there is no easy way to convert.

The only was to do it is to record the tracks in real-time to MP3.

You can thank SONY and its proprietary .OMG format.

Edited June 28, 2006 by JSP62

[Ishiyoshi]

Is their any way to convert OpenMG Audio files to mp3?

You may want to try HIMDRenderer; available from our sister forum: MDCF.

[navsimpson]

Hi,

When I want to convert an ATRAC file to MP3, I actually find it more straightforward to just do a batch convert of whatever I want to a WAV file and then over to an MP3. But maybe that's just me.

Nav

[Guest Stuge]

Hi,

When I want to convert an ATRAC file to MP3, I actually find it more straightforward to just do a batch convert of whatever I want to a WAV file and then over to an MP3. But maybe that's just me.

Nav

But converting to Wav,will lose Tags.SO it's better to convert it to Mp3 instead.

[JustAnUnCoolCat]

Kinda depends on the situation, as it goes.

If you don't mind retagging the end results (now talking conversion to any other taggable format), the simple 'free' method is indeed the suggested convert to wav approach.

It costs nothing but time, and is faster than 1x..

Alternatively, and would still require tagging the end result, if you can obtain a copy of Total Recorder, you can do a direct API capture - which bypasses any mixer tweaks and quirks by capturing the output data being sent to a virtual sound card by the playback app.

Haven't tried this one for accelerated capture mind. Where this one is more of interest, i guess, is when you have protected content (assuming the protected OMG/OMA's are say from Connect Store or are protected self-produced encodings) - as often (and untested personally re SS) the 'convert to' function in your average 'supports DRM content' app won't let you directly convert protected content.

However, TR and API capture, does allow you to capture the content and encode to whatever format.

I used that workaround (which is better than the analog loop approach) when i worked with protected content and wanted to compare random entries in the station's library - TR gave me a good method of capturing an image of a protected track at 1:1 of sample rate and runnin time and fingerprint the resulting WAV file. Then i could compare the library versions' FP vs my reference log (since i used to do the official station library maintenance) - if the decode/capture differed in fingerprint vs my log of the correct FP, then the item in question in the library was suspect (aka it could be an unauthorised replacement or suchlike).

Ok, *slaps own paws*, that last bit was off-topic, but it shows another extreme of API capture methods for getting a pure decode of content without having to do p*ss-about methods to dup content.

'Tom Kat'