What is an ATRAC 3 Plus Player?
ATRAC means Adaptive TRAnsform Acoustic Coding which is an advanced revolutionary audio compression technology which takes in a wide band of audio signals across long period of time and converts it into an optimum bit allocation. It uses a band division filter which divides the signal into 16 sub bands yet optimizing on time/frequency the result of which is high quality sound with minimal power and low hardware space. What is its advantage?? Well, on a 700 MB CD you can record around 400 songs with same sound quality as MP3 format which gives you around 150 songs per CD. Secondly, its consumption of power is as good as 100 hrs on a typical set of 2 AA batteries. This is unmatched and keeps your pocket full. You don’t have to go running around for more batteries at every other railway station. All Sony ATRAC 3 Players come with Sonic Stage Burner software for your computer where you can keep burning CDs at will. The biggest gain for me has been using the ATRAC Car audio as well where I
