Guest Anonymous Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 Hello all. When I am recording to my n10 (through USB), when I playback the music it is very crackly and distorted on the bass. I have tried all threee recording modes - and tried different earphones but nothing is helping this. Can someone please help me to fix this? Regards, Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acp89 Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 have u tried messing with the equalizer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 I thought this may have been an issue - so I completely turned the EQ off - but this has had no effect. Regards, Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 Hi all - I have found that recording from CD's is fine. I found a track that would distort when I recorded from MP3 and put it on a CD - and from the CD it works fine - so there must be some issue with the MP3 --> MD process. Any ideas?? Cheers! -Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazirker Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 You might already know this, so forgive me if I am insulting your intelligence...but when you send an mp3 to MD, you aren't actually copying the mp3 to the minidisc. Minidisc players use a different type of audio compression called ATRAC (or ATRAC3,) so all audio that you send to the md must first be converted.* Apparently, Sonicstage and OpenMG are terrible at converting unusual mp3's to ATRAC, hence the distortion. Examples of unusual mp3's are mp3's that are recorded at frequencies other than 44000, vbr mp3's, extreme bitrates, and other oddities like that. So how can you fix the problem? Well, I can think of two ways. The first is to use a program like nero, musicmatch, or cd-da that can convert the mp3 to some other audio format (wma, wav, or even just re-encoding the mp3 to a different bitrate.) The problem with this method is that it involves making new files on your computer, and that might clutter your hard drive. You can fix that by deleting the original file after conversion, but the newer file is likely to have decreased quality from the file conversion. THe second way is to use Dino's method (see the sticky post on the top of the NetMD forum) and let another program do the file conversion without making a new file. *When sonicstage converts files to atrac3 format, it makes new, permanent files on your computer. These files have the extension .omg and can be played in sonicstage. However, they do add up and eat hard drive space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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