> I know that ATRAC compresses the audio somewhat by removing all
> the frequencies that the human ear cannot hear. I have also found out
> another way that it might compress the audio. I recorded one of my
> lectures onto MD and then transferred it onto as .wav file on my
> computer. When I zoomed into the waveform of the sound, there wasn't
> a continuous wave, there were many little 'packets of sound'. Now I
> think that the MD must also take the 'packets' so fast that we can not
> distinguish them as seperate (kind of like the 24 frames per second in
> a movie). What do other people think?
There is a whitepaper somewhere on the MDCP pages on how
ATRAC works. I got it here, but it is to large to include as a mail
message.
Remco
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