Importing ATRAC3/ATRAC3plus files onto PSP

[Lutter]

I've been wanting to use ATRAC to fit mp3s on that dinker little 32MB memory card that Sony gave you with the PSP "Value Pack". Anyways, I encoded an entire album in ATRAC using SonicStage 3.0 in just about every setting and I just can't get the damn thing to recognize them.

 

I'm putting them in the PSP/MUSIC/... folder.

 

Numerous sources say it's supposed to work... mp3s work... what's the deal?

[JoeyN]

PSP cant recognize ATRAC3 files yet. The PSP product manager said on a chat last night that its going to be in one of the firmware updates shortly

 

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[Camp]

Why would you want to use ATRAC over MP3? I can't imagine there is any size or quality improvement -especially when you weigh in the hoops Sony makes you jump through to encode files as ATRAC.

 

http://www.memorystick.com/en/lifestyle/psp/en_us/manual/000002/00.html

[Lutter]

Actually... with SonicStage it's pretty easy and it rendered some pretty small files with some OK results for example, I made a 9MB MP3 into a 4MB ATRAC3 file with little difference in quality.

 

Good for us that can't afford a 512MB or 1GB card and only have the 32MB card to work with for a bit.

 

That's good to hear about the firmware update though, thanks for the info.

[Camp]

Actually... with SonicStage it's pretty easy and it rendered some pretty small files with some OK results for example, I made a 9MB MP3 into a 4MB ATRAC3 file with little difference in quality.

 

Lossy compression to lossy compression is not my idea of fun. That's taking a track with already compromised sound quality and reducing it further -both in terms of further compression and by nature of using a different compression technique.

 

Furthermore, if you really want to make a 9MB MP3 smaller you can simply lower the bitrate/quality settings and re-rip to MP3. You'll get similarly poor quality as with MP3 --> ATRAC but you can keep things as one format for simplicity.