Guest Anonymous Posted December 22, 2003 Report Share Posted December 22, 2003 please can somebody tell me if the mp3 file is converted automatically with sonic stage? and does the bit rate matter because nearly all of the files i have are 128k/b pplease tell me thanks will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 when ur want to transfer to the MD it will conver the music files to ATRAC3 format to your hdd and then begin transfering across...it does this automatically...bit rate doesn't matter so much just that you won't get that good of a recording as compared to if you converted a wav file to ATRAC3... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerkY Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Of course bitrates do matter. As long as they are 128kbits and rated at 44.1 Khz you would be able to convert them to ATRAC files. SonicStage does it automatically. However, as Majestic said, converting a WAV file rather than a MP3 file would yield better quality. Why? Because a WAV file is 1441kbits and an ordinary MP3 file is 128kbits or maybe 192kbits. Obviously the WAV file would give better quality as it has the higher bitrate. With the MP3 you are converting an already compressed file so the quality will not be as good as the ATRAC3 coded WAV file... Basically its like a clone of a clone Cheers BerkY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 thanx for the reply guys can you also tell me what the qul will be like and how do i find the sample rate i think i have found some sort of sample rate (by right clicking the file and oging in to advan) i have about 500 mp3s and they are all 44khz is that right # thanks will(Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkrzok Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 If you're running Windows XP you can get the bit rate from windows itself. Open a folder with mp3s, put that folder into the "details" view (click on view on the menu bar and choose detail). Above the list of files in the folder will be some headings (name, size, etc). Right click on this and a pop up will list all the possible headings. Bit Rate is one. Select that and you're done. This doesn't tell you the Khz of the file, however. It's safe to say that most music mp3 will be at 44 Khz, but one never knows. There is a freeware program that will tell you both the bit rate and the Khz rate. It's called dbPoweramp convertor. It integrates with windows explorer so that when you select an mp3 file with your pointer the bit rate, Khz rate, headers, etc will display in a pop up. It's available at http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ There are also mp3 playing software that will display both numbers. I use QCD, available at http://www.quinnware.com/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerkY Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 No need at all... Winamp displays the sample rate when the music is being played Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Keep in mind, though, that although a WAV is better than an MP3, a WAV that is made by converting an MP3 to WAV will only be as good as the MP3 was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerkY Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Will not be as good? you are increasing the bitrate from 128 to 1441kbits.. yea ok just increasing the bitrate is not enough. After all the original file is an MP3. But it will be at least as good as 128kbits or maybe just a tad better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted December 25, 2003 Report Share Posted December 25, 2003 converting from a 128kbps mp3 to a wav format won't make it that much better since as u said it was from an mp3 file originally...as mp3 uses lossy compression u can't recover the data that was lost during that compression by changing it to a wav format... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazirker Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 Yup, the expanded wave will look exactly the same as the decoded waveform of the mp3. It'll still have all the artifacts and stuff too. It won't be any better at all because the mp3 to wave conversion can't recreate the audio data that was lost during the mp3 encoding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Yeah, and it won't add anything good either. It will be for all intents and purposes exactly the same as just using the MP3. (Well, except that it'll be like 10× as big.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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