ATRAC CD


An ATRAC CD is a compressed [audio optical disc] containing compressed digital audio in the ATRAC3 or ATRAC3plus formats, which are part of Sony's ATRAC family of proprietary audio compression algorithms.

Description

ATRAC CD was used with SonicStage Simple Burner software in February 2003, and was subsequently replaced with SonicStage in 2004. The new CD Walkman product was called "ATRAC CD Walkman". In the following year, ATRAC CD boombox was introduced, as a new product.
CD ATRACATRAC3ATRAC3plus
Bitrate1411kbit/s292kbit/s132kbit/s64kbit/s
Data size 42.33MB8.77MB3.97MB1.94MB
Number of Tracks Recorded into CD-R About 16 tracksAbout 79 tracksAbout 176 tracksAbout 360 tracks

Software for burning ATRAC CD

The ATRAC CD can be burned with SonicStage Simple Burner Ver.1.1, SonicStage 2.x to 3.x and SonicStage CP. This software is able to create a disk image from MP3 files and compact discs and can be burned with the included CD-R/RW drive on a computer.
FormatBitrateSongs
ATRAC3plus48kbit/s490 Songs
ATRAC3plus64kbit/s360 Songs
ATRAC366kbit/s350 Songs
ATRAC3105kbit/s220 Songs
ATRAC3132kbit/s170 Songs
ATRAC3plus256kbit/s90 Songs