Azureal Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 I cannot seem to find a way to export some of my ATRAC3plus files from SonicStage to MP3 files so that I can burn them to disc. Am I forced to just rip the albums again to MP3? I have the options to create Audio CD, create ATRAC CD or create MP3 CD, but the latter doesn't work if the files are in ATRAC format.Do newer versions of the Connect software allow this sort of trans-coding from the library? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navsimpson Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 The only way I know of to do this would be to save your ATRAC files as WAVs (which I'm pretty sure you can do in 3.4) and then use another program - CDex for example - to convert from WAV to MP3. Do keep in mind that you are compressing the music twice and are therefore degrading the sound quality twice. -Nav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azureal Posted March 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) Thanks Nav,I thought that might be the case after looking around in the app and trying a few things. I have all of the original CDs so I'll just re-rip to mp3. In the past I have used EAC to rip and Lame to encode. Any thoughts from anyone on other useful tools out there to rip to MP3? I think that SonicStage will do it too and also pull all of the CD data from CDDB. That might be even easier for me.Thanks again! Edited March 20, 2007 by Azureal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borat Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 MarCNet's HiMDRenderer is the ideal tool for converting your Sonicstage Library to MP3 (or other formats). It's free (though you can donate to Marc) and you can get it here: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=6087The batch mode is especially useful for converting large collections . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azureal Posted March 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2007 Fantastic Borat!Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out this evening and report back. This will be very convenient.Thank you again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navsimpson Posted March 21, 2007 Report Share Posted March 21, 2007 Whoops! Sorry - didn't know about that one. Let us know how it works. -Nav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azureal Posted March 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 (edited) Hey Guys,Marc's HiMDRenderer worked like a charm. As Borat suggested I used the batch processing mode and left it over night to crunch about 200 .oma files. HiMDRenderer transcoded the files from .oma into CBR 192KBps which actually do not sound too bad. All of my source rips into SonicStage are at 256KBps or higher ATRAC3plus. Not only did it transcode, but it properly populated all of the ID3 metatags for each file, and numbered the individual tracks as well as placed files in a directory hierarchy based upon artist/album/track.Very useful utility. Thanks for the advice Borat and thanks to Marc for his efforts on the tool. Edited March 22, 2007 by Azureal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hpmoon Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Hey Guys,Marc's HiMDRenderer worked like a charm. As Borat suggested I used the batch processing mode and left it over night to crunch about 200 .oma files. HiMDRenderer transcoded the files from .oma into CBR 192KBps which actually do not sound too bad. All of my source rips into SonicStage are at 256KBps or higher ATRAC3plus. Not only did it transcode, but it properly populated all of the ID3 metatags for each file, and numbered the individual tracks as well as placed files in a directory hierarchy based upon artist/album/track.Very useful utility. Thanks for the advice Borat and thanks to Marc for his efforts on the tool.Problem is, the app is buggy, sluggish and doesn't deal well with certain ATRAC formats like Lossless. Now that Sony has removed DRM from most ATRAC files (e.g., those you burn from your own CDs), I'm shocked that there's no good converter yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borat Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Well, you can't have everything - it's the only tool we have for this kind of thing, and it's totally free. Praise be to MarCNet!Anyway, glad to have helped Azureal, as you say the results aren't half bad, when transcoding from high bitrates at least... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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