Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
It plays mp3 from an inbuilt mp3 player, but does it play mp3 from burnt to CD ? Just curious. Just fine. I've burnt a couple MP3 CDs to cd-r cd-rw and the player handles them fine. ONe thing I noticed is that I have one recently burned CD (used gcombust on a number of radio mystery theater mp3s that had been cluttering up my hard drive) and the Sony portable plays the mp3s in a different order than my koss dvd/cd/mp3 component player does. Note the claim to write as many as 30 albums to one CD using supplied software on a 700 MB disc. Why you'd need the supplied software is anyone's guess. Maybe they're selling to OS users that have no software? :) John David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
David E. Fox wrote: It plays mp3 from an inbuilt mp3 player, but does it play mp3 from burnt to CD ? Just curious. Just fine. I've burnt a couple MP3 CDs to cd-r cd-rw and the player handles them fine. ONe thing I noticed is that I have one recently burned CD (used gcombust on a number of radio mystery theater mp3s that had been cluttering up my hard drive) and the Sony portable plays the mp3s in a different order than my koss dvd/cd/mp3 component player does. That's curious, I wonder why ? Still it plays mp3 from CD fine, good. Note the claim to write as many as 30 albums to one CD using supplied software on a 700 MB disc. Why you'd need the supplied software is anyone's guess. Maybe they're selling to OS users that have no software? :) I just wondered whether Sony had come up with some new format that enables more data to be written to disc. Like as not ATRAC3plus is just some marketing ploy to sell you mp3 by another name. Who knows. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 23:05 Subject: Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman I just wondered whether Sony had come up with some new format that enables more data to be written to disc. Like as not ATRAC3plus is just some marketing ploy to sell you mp3 by another name. Who knows. John atrac3 is a different format, using a difference compression engine to mp3. it claims comparable audio quality to mp3 (128kbps) at atrac3 (64kbps). atrac3plus is a refined version of atrac3 that claims even better compression. i think sony claimed similar quality at 48kbps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 10:34 am, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 7:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I'd like to add an image file of the spiel on the back of the box, only it'd come to more than 100kb., then you could all see what you make of it. Would you send it to me at home, John? Anne OK, here it is , I think you may still need to dl the file attatched to hd and open in in gimp and then rescale the image to say 300% to read is easily. The original text was so small it's practically unreadable without a magnifying glass, at any rate for me. John Well, it does say *maximum* of 30 albums, which is pretty meaningless. I think my granddaughter's player says something like 'around 100 tracks', which doesn't mean much either, since a track can vary from ~2.5 minutes to 5 minutes. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
I'd like to add an image file of the spiel on the back of the box, only it'd come to more than 100kb., then you could all see what you make of it. Don't have a ready pic, but I have one of these things, from Sony. I'm skeptical of the Atrac software. MP3s work and I have used them extensively in the past two weeks - I just came back from vacation in Portland, and I had a couple of burned mp3 and other cds along for the very long train ride. John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
Well, it does say *maximum* of 30 albums, which is pretty meaningless. I think my granddaughter's player says something like 'around 100 I suppose so. But the albums could be subdirectories, and you could fit a large number of different albums on one cd using the mp3 format, of course. My limited experience with the sony player seems to suggest that it is quite good at what it does, although the headphones which are supplied aren't too terribly good since the felt earpieces have already fallen off them and I've only had the player a few weeks now. The batteries which I use (Rayovac renewable/rechargeable alkaline) lasts for quite a while before I have to recharge them, but not nearly as long as the manual suggests (60+ hours for Sony AA). I don't see how mp3 takes less battery power then regular CDs, but Sony claims it does. One would think that there needs to be extra processing power required to play mp3, vs. regular CDs. Perhaps the thing spins down? I'd ignore the Aflac thing because the software seems to be Windows centric and mp3 works just fine. I don't see any superiority over mp3 and (too bad) the player doesn't support ogg (neither does my desktop player). So far it's done a very good job otherwise. Anne David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 3:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Here's a new one on me. Sony ATRAC CD Walkman D-NESII High quality sound Codec ATRAC3plus/MP3 playback capability. Up to 20 CD Albums can be burnt to a Disc with ATRAC3plus,using software supplied Needless to say it's windblows software. OK, so one of my daughters has just bought herself a new walkman CD player with the above features. So does anyone know anything about ATRAC3plus ? Is it any good ? Seems to imply it's something new that with an ordinary CD writer you can get 30 audio CD's onto one CD without loss of quality. Hmm. I'm hoping to try something similar for my granddaughter. I assume that you create the mp3s on your hdd, then just burn them as data. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:05, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 3:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Here's a new one on me. Sony ATRAC CD Walkman D-NESII High quality sound Codec ATRAC3plus/MP3 playback capability. Up to 20 CD Albums can be burnt to a Disc with ATRAC3plus,using software supplied Needless to say it's windblows software. OK, so one of my daughters has just bought herself a new walkman CD player with the above features. So does anyone know anything about ATRAC3plus ? Is it any good ? Seems to imply it's something new that with an ordinary CD writer you can get 30 audio CD's onto one CD without loss of quality. Hmm. I'm hoping to try something similar for my granddaughter. I assume that you create the mp3s on your hdd, then just burn them as data. Anne Iburn about 8 to 9 CDs onto one disk using GripLame and play them back with a no-name cd/mp3 player $39.95 @ Fry's works just fine but 30 CDs' kinda pushing it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 3:30 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:05, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 3:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Here's a new one on me. Sony ATRAC CD Walkman D-NESII High quality sound Codec ATRAC3plus/MP3 playback capability. Up to 20 CD Albums can be burnt to a Disc with ATRAC3plus,using software supplied Needless to say it's windblows software. OK, so one of my daughters has just bought herself a new walkman CD player with the above features. So does anyone know anything about ATRAC3plus ? Is it any good ? Seems to imply it's something new that with an ordinary CD writer you can get 30 audio CD's onto one CD without loss of quality. Hmm. I'm hoping to try something similar for my granddaughter. I assume that you create the mp3s on your hdd, then just burn them as data. Anne Iburn about 8 to 9 CDs onto one disk using GripLame and play them back with a no-name cd/mp3 player $39.95 @ Fry's works just fine but 30 CDs' kinda pushing it And you just burn them as data files? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:05, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 3:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Here's a new one on me. Sony ATRAC CD Walkman D-NESII High quality sound Codec ATRAC3plus/MP3 playback capability. Up to 20 CD Albums can be burnt to a Disc with ATRAC3plus,using software supplied Needless to say it's windblows software. OK, so one of my daughters has just bought herself a new walkman CD player with the above features. So does anyone know anything about ATRAC3plus ? Is it any good ? Seems to imply it's something new that with an ordinary CD writer you can get 30 audio CD's onto one CD without loss of quality. Hmm. I'm hoping to try something similar for my granddaughter. I assume that you create the mp3s on your hdd, then just burn them as data. Anne Iburn about 8 to 9 CDs onto one disk using GripLame and play them back with a no-name cd/mp3 player $39.95 @ Fry's works just fine but 30 CDs' kinda pushing it That's what I thought, but that is what the publicity on theSony box says, I'd enclose a 1:1 image file of the claim only the text is very small, and a 1:1 scan is hardly readable, and if I rescale it upwards it comes out more than 100kb. Is this something really new I wonder ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 3:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Here's a new one on me. Sony ATRAC CD Walkman D-NESII High quality sound Codec ATRAC3plus/MP3 playback capability. Up to 20 CD Albums can be burnt to a Disc with ATRAC3plus,using software supplied Needless to say it's windblows software. OK, so one of my daughters has just bought herself a new walkman CD player with the above features. So does anyone know anything about ATRAC3plus ? Is it any good ? Seems to imply it's something new that with an ordinary CD writer you can get 30 audio CD's onto one CD without loss of quality. Hmm. I'm hoping to try something similar for my granddaughter. I assume that you create the mp3s on your hdd, then just burn them as data. Anne I'd like to add an image file of the spiel on the back of the box, only it'd come to more than 100kb., then you could all see what you make of it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
On Saturday 20 September 2003 12:05, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi there! If you got it... please tell how! I thought it should be easy, but . My portable keeps telling me that the CD (the one I've burnt!) is not a ESP! And it does play mp3 and navigates thru directories I just got a little fed up with that stuff, tried everyting people suggested me! Hope you are luckier! []s Ricardo Castanho I'm hoping to try something similar for my granddaughter. I assume that you create the mp3s on your hdd, then just burn them as data. Anne -- == Linux user # 102240 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] user = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == AntiVir for UNIX Copyright (C) 1994-2002 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. All rights reserved. For more information see http://www.antivir.de/ or http://www.hbedv.com/ Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:30:00 -0300 16:30:00 up 3 days, 5:20, 3 users, load average: 1.15, 1.09, 1.08 An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 7:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I'd like to add an image file of the spiel on the back of the box, only it'd come to more than 100kb., then you could all see what you make of it. Would you send it to me at home, John? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:09, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 7:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I'd like to add an image file of the spiel on the back of the box, only it'd come to more than 100kb., then you could all see what you make of it. Would you send it to me at home, John? Anne or send it here, I can put it up. -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
