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| Thread ID: 91985 | 2008-07-25 00:00:00 | "Neil Young slams iTunes, iPod" | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 691842 | 2008-07-27 03:10:00 | Interesting thread. Someone may be able to enlighten me on encoding quality. I have an old Sony HiMD player and I ripped all my CD collection at "ATRAC 320kb lossless" format. My music, apart from a dozen or so downloads is all mine and all ripped at the above figure. I know folk go on about ATRAC but apart from the time taken to load the files to the disk, I found this system excellent. To me, this gives a great sound on this player. It would also record full CD quality which gave around 1.5 cd's per disk. I bought a NWZ-A720 8GB player a week or so ago. This uses either AAC, WMA or MP3 for ripping, no lossless types. Except for WMA lossless, which make large files. Has anyone tried this one? I have yet to look at this method, but it would probably be OK to put all my special music on using this encoding. Any comments anyone. Any equivalent encoders in lossless format the anyone knows of? Don't bash me about the ATRAC guys :banana Ken If you purcahsed a sony mp3 player, it should really use atrac, as that is sonys own format, unless they don't see a future in it. AAC I think is the best format. Rememeber that these formats mainly remove the sounds that you can't hear anyway, in order to compress the music. You really should not hear much difference if any, when encoding at 192-256 in AAC. With larger music players, compression will become less of an issue. If you purchased a 160GB ipod, you could save them in the highest format possible, as 160GB is a lot of diskapce. |
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| 691843 | 2008-07-27 05:34:00 | If you purcahsed a sony mp3 player, it should really use atrac, as that is sonys own format, unless they don't see a future in it. AAC I think is the best format. Rememeber that these formats mainly remove the sounds that you can't hear anyway, in order to compress the music. You really should not hear much difference if any, when encoding at 192-256 in AAC. With larger music players, compression will become less of an issue. If you purchased a 160GB ipod, you could save them in the highest format possible, as 160GB is a lot of diskapce. Sony have now dropped the ATRAC format. Their MP3 players now only use AAC, MP3 or WMA. I have encoded quite a lot using AAC @256 now and feel quite satisfied with the sound. It is a shame that Windows Media Player 11 doesn't see the AAC tracks as their drag and drop works really well. Better than the bundled software that comes with the player (Media Manager) Ken |
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