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All Forums > Tech Talk > Tech Talk Forum Page 38 > Net to CD/MP3?
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Mojo
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1223 Posts
9/03
Posted - Oct 17 2006 : 3:58PM
First of all, I know that this isn't technical, but what is allofMP3.com like as a music download company?

Now for the tech bit. I'm totally green when it comes to downloading music from the Net, so seeing that allofmp3 offers downloads of loads of different formats I was wondering what would be the best format for me? I have a Sony NW-A3000 MP3 that up until now has needed Sonic Stage in which to download music from my CD's. So, what would be my best bet for downloading music?

1. Can I download the music straight onto Sonic Stage? If so, how and what format would I need?

2. Or would it be possible to download it onto the hard drive, then transfer the music onto CD and then down to Sonic Stage? If so, what format would I need?

Oh, and I also have Roxio installed on my computer.

kukm4
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so-cal
212 Posts
9/04
Posted - Oct 17 2006 : 4:47PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllOfMP3.com
pinc_noiz
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758 Posts
6/05
Posted - Nov 7 2006 : 11:27AM
Depending on whether you want a high compression/low quality format or low compression/high quality format (lossy v. lossless compression), you could choose for your Sony:

- ATRAC (.oma) up to 320 kbps lossy / 256 kbps in ATRAC AL lossless
- MP3 up to 320 kbps lossy
- WAV (CD rips)
- WMA up to 192 kbps in both lossy and lossless

Going from 'high quality sound' to 'high compression data' (please keep in mind I take sound-quality over file-size personally): WAV - ATRAC AL - WMA lossless - ATRAC - MP3 - WMA lossy

As a rule of thumb: the higher the bitrate, the higher the sound quality (at the expense of used space). You could do some experiments yourself (filing same music using different codecs and listen / watch available space) an decide accordingly.

Nice player BTW. Success and enjoy.

p_n




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