Problem with Atrac3plus files, Sony CD player (DNE-10) not reading them

[Hou_JaI]

Atrac3plus newbie here, I manage to convert some pf my MP3 tracks to Atrac3plus 320kbps. The files are in OMA format. Then I tried to transfer the file to a CD by copy and pasting the OMA files into a CD then write the files to the CD. But when I load it using my Sony CD Walkman D-NE10, i get "NO FILE" error. D-NE10 is actually Atrac3plus compatible. Some one please help me !

[totesz]

Sony CD Players can only play Atrac files, if you create the CD with SonicStage (or with other software, like Sony CD Simple Burner), because it has a specific file stucture. But there are some more restriction. An Atrac CD can only contain Atrac3 @ 132, 105, 66 and Atrac3+ @ 256, 64 and 48. But if you already have your music in MP3, there is no need to convert them to Atrac, especially not to higher bit rates (you won't get higher sound quality anyway), because all CD players capable of playing atrac is also capable of playing MP3 (at any bitrate, even VBR). In my opinion, the only case if converting can worth it is if you want to store a lot of tracks on a single disk, when you should use Atrac3+@64kbps.

Edited September 9, 2006 by totesz

[Ishiyoshi]

topic moved to "CD Equipment".

[Guest Stuge]

As Said by Totez,you will have to use SonicStage to create Atrac cd .

Use SonicStage CP 4 ,to create Atrac Cd .

[JustAnUnCoolCat]

As a quick add to the subject..

There is a third burn option..

This i recall as it's useful for those who have high-speed burning issues with ATRAC CD via SonicStage, but generally useful anyway.

You can always burn the ATRAC CD to CD-RW, remember to stick to decent media, and then you can extract the image of the CD for later reuse via Nero or any other Data CD/CD-ROM duplicating soft.

Now if you happen to be a fan of mega-speed burning, going for broke and ramping your burning apps to use melt-down burning speeds.. which is not always the best choice for generating portable deck oriented discs, then the burn slow to CD-RW, rip the data image from CD-RW, burn image to CD-R using nero or similar approach is also a more reliable way of getting first-time/every-time discs that ATRAC CD decks down spit out and reject.

My generating kit is simply SonicStage outputing to CD-RW, rip the ISO image from the CD-RW via ISOBUSTER, burn the CDR from the ISO via Nero.

It's a round about method, but when times demand the need to burn fast and furiously, it's worth the long-winded method (just remember to archive them CD images).

And intermediate burn tests using RW's is a good way to discover what speed settings to select for SS when generating ATRAC CD's.. since SS may support ultra-speed units (burners) but it's not exactly known for it's lack-of-coasters performance when you use the higher speed burning.

Still got to get around to ATRAC CD making using SS 4.0 CP (my prev comments refer to SS 2.0-3.3), so what i said about SS's burning performance may be redundant these days.

'Tom Kat'