After reading the FAQs, I'm not very impressed with Atrac 3. I would say
from the description that is sounds lousy. Digital artifacts that you can
hear?
Just how important is the bit rate? I never realized that ATRAC used a bit
rate of almost 300! I have downloaded Mp3s in several different bit rates
and really didn't hear a difference.
The high bit rates seemed to double the file size but did nothing to improve
the sound quality. The lower bit rate (like 64-which I sometimes had to use
because it was the only way I could find the song I wanted) sounded the same
too.
So if you reduced the bit rate of an MD player to 64 you should be able to
ge about 5.6 hours of music on an MD without having to resort to all of the
drastic things done with Atrac 2 and 3.
If you are going to copy Mp3 files to Atrac 3 with all of that compression
and manipulation, the end result is likely to sound like sh!t.
I really know very little about the effect of the bit rate on the sound
quality, only what I heard using Mp3s. So if someone knowledgeable in this
area has more to say on the matter, I am very interested in learning about
it.
Larry
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