ATRAC3

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Home Page: http://www.sony.net/Products/ATRAC3/Acronym for: Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding 3File Extension: .OMGIncludes “ATRAC3 Plus”

A lossy audio compression technology similar to MP3. It is Sony’s proprietary ATRAC3 codec commonly used by Sony music-playing devices. It uses SDMI.

Contents

• 1 How to Play/Encode ATRAC3 files
• 2 Converting from/to ATRAC3 files
• 3 Problems
• 4 Benefits
• 5 Related

How to Play/Encode ATRAC3 files

• Liquid Audio Plugin for Winamp
• Real Player media player software
• Cole2k.net – encoding and decoding codecs
• Variety of related programs

Converting from/to ATRAC3 files

• HiMD Renderer – Convert your Atrac3 files (*.OMG/*.OMA) to WAV or MP3 files. Step by step guide here. DRM restrictions still apply, and you still need SonicStage.
• Sony’s MP3 converter – Basic version of Sony’s SonicStage software. Converts MP3 files to ATRAC3.

Problems

• ATRAC3 also does not play with any hardware other than Sony’s own so those who transfer their files to this format can only play it in Sony equipment.

Benefits

• Allows up to 20 hours (at lowest quality setting) of music in a single CD (minidiscs will have about half that).

Related

• Open Directory Project: Portable Players
• Wikipedia: ATRAC

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