Broonie Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Are there any new Sony MP3 players that support playback of ATRAC or are there any apps for the android Sony device that will support ATRAC playback? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Richard Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 As I understand it the Japanese versions of the current NW-F / NW-S support Atrac and Atrac Advanced Lossless. This was actually something I was looking at myself in the last couple of days as the NW-F807 had caught my eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sfbp Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Yeah I was quite peeved to discover my NWZ-S754 steadfastly refuses to play ATRAC, although in Japan (and possibly even the UK) different firmware on the same device will do it. Any suggestions Richard?By the way, anything which uses ffmpeg (VLC etc), including Android software, will play back LP2 and LP4 (ATRAC3) - but not the Atrac3+ coded stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Richard Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 I am fairly sure the UK models don't support Atrac either. I am not sure if the Atrac playback is something that is implemented in the software layer, or if there really is a difference in the hardware somewhere. I have to confess I have been out of the game for a while and have no idea how the Android based models actually work. (I still alternate between my RH-1 and my NW-A847 - with Atrac playback for most of my daily listening). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sfbp Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Current status is that Android can play MDLP (LP2 and LP4) only, using VLC or ffmpeg. That will change shortly, it is hoped, to include HiSP (and probably all HiMD bitrates), though not, at least initially, AAL, For the latter one may have to strip out the lossless part by hand. The other solution around the house (and potentially over the internet as streaming gets better and cheaper) is to have a DLNA server which converts to 1411KHz, 16-bit LPCM before streaming to your mobile device, TV, PC or music centre. I have been exploring this since my last post in this thread, and it works really well, at least for MDLP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Are there any new Sony MP3 players that support playback of ATRAC or are there any apps for the android Sony device that will support ATRAC playback?
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