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No the phones never supported ATRAC. (Other than the Japanese market)

Even the latest Sony Walkman players don't support ATRAC anymore.

Sony have dropped the codec more or less.
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Posted: 2008-10-26 04:26:50
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I have keen hearing and my hobby is working with sounds. From my experiences, compressing a high-bitrate (> 172kbps) mp3 to 96kbps with the latest Lame MP3 Encoder v3.98.2 is the best compromise between size and sound quality.

96kbps is very good for classical and pop music in fact. You would hear few artifacts if you pay attention to. But for electronic/techno, 112kpbs is more acceptable.


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Posted: 2008-10-26 16:30:34
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I believe what you really mean is mp3pro with 96kbps, well it will sound like common 96kbps mp3 if we put it on the phond cause i've never heard any phone that support mp3pro...
You will only hear it sounds good if you play it on a player with mp3pro support...
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Posted: 2008-10-27 01:27:32
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as groovepeppy said, mp3pro doesn't work on most cellphones. You get normal mp3 fallback.

But even if you could get mp3pro at 96Kbps, as you say it's equivalent to 172Kbps. Personally I find 256Kbps a bare minimum for my own listening pleasure (and my hearing is good but not fantastic by any means).

There is an assumption made by some (I used to think this myself) that a relatively low quality audio device such as a phone or mp3 player is too poor to reveal any improvement in higher bitrates compared to standard rates such as 128 mp3, 96 mp3pro/aac etc.

However my testing has revealed the opposite. I find that it is MORE important on a low quality device to use a high bitrate high quality codec. I guess it's like this: low quality x low quality = very low quality. Whereas: low quality x high quality = not quite so low quality.

Since using 256 and 320Kbps where possible on my mp3 players and phones I find the music much more pleasant and more full than when I used to use 96-128Kbps AAC or 128-192Kbps mp3



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Posted: 2008-10-28 09:49:25
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No it's not mp3pro. That one is really no good.


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Posted: 2008-10-28 13:39:23
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Yup. I agree. I'm into the string quartet recordings and most of them are at 320kbs. Compressing them to even 172 would be like listening to garbage. I dont have keen hearing but the low quality is discernible.
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Posted: 2008-10-28 14:20:48
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For audiophile ears i recommend using at least 256 kbps for your song collections, and use the compressed mp3 only for your ringtones
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Posted: 2008-10-28 18:37:19
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Most 's (not all though) can't really cope with the high bitrate's ruch as the ones we get on a CD (320). I reccomending compressing no less than 100 so that the sound quality doesn't decrease at all to the ear but the size decreases to the phone
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Posted: 2008-11-01 22:22:37
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Convert .mp3 to .ogg and use oggplayer to listen them. You can get the same audio quality for about half size. When i had p800 and the maximum memory you can get is 128mb this is the best choice. And for what i remember oggplayer is a uiq freeware app plus is nicer than the built in audio player of p800. You can store a lot of tracks on a 128mb card;)
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Posted: 2008-11-02 00:57:30
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OggPlayer

That must be awkward when you want to listen to a song.
Go open an application, then browse for song.
Plus it will drain battery.

Compress MP3's I say
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Posted: 2008-11-02 11:52:35
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