This information came in part from a Japanese magazine "MJ" and the 9/96 issue of the German Stereo magazine: In a word: No. The perceived problems with optical interconnects relate to an optical cable's greater theoretical potential to distort the digital signal, particularly to create small inaccuracies in the arrival time of data bits ("jitter").

No, there is a read-only label track on each MD that distinguishes an MD Audio and MD Data disc, MD equipment looks at this label to determine what kind of disc it is accessing. An MD audio disc inserted in an MD Data drive shows up as having 1k in disc, 0k available. The ATRAC encoded music information is not accessible. An MD Data drive user has written some information about the MD Data drive and cross compatibility.

ATRAC stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding. Atrac is a very intelligent compression method; it doesn't just blindly toss out data. ATRAC attempts to follow the perceptual model of human hearing to determine what the human ear can and cannot hear. Anything determined to be inaudible or masked by other sounds is where the compression occurs. The end result: Audio that sounds (to the human ear) exactly like the original, but at 1/5 the original size.

There is not much information about this other than what Sony says in their brochures and what appears in occasional magazine articles (thanks primarily to Japanese MJ and German Stereo magazines for their detailed reporting). Since ATRAC's transform window size (11.6ms) and signal processing structure are fixed, the improvements come primarily through improvements to the signal processing step's mathematical accuracy and refinements to the bit allocation process.

ATRAC (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) divides the 16 bit 44.1 KHz digital signal into 52 sub-bands in the frequency domain (after a Fast Fourier Transform). The sub-bands in the low frequencies are finer than the ones in the high frequency range. A psycho-acoustic transfer function that takes advantage of the masking effect and the absolute hearing threshold then removes enough information to reduce the data stream to 1/5th of the original size.

For a stereo signal it's 292162.5 bits/sec. ATRAC compresses 512 incoming 16 bit samples (1024 bytes) into one ATRAC ''sound group'' (212 bytes) giving an audio compression ratio of 4.83:1. Here is the math: 44100 samples/sec (incoming single channel rate) bits/sec. ATRAC3 (used in MDLP) runs at 132kbps (LP2) and 66kbps (LP4). See the MDLP FAQ for further details. ATRAC is 292kbit/sec, giving ''CD like'' audio fidelity. MPEG Layer 1 (i.e.

The following sections refer to Sony's ATRAC. Sharp and Matsushita (among others?) have developed ATRAC chips of their own, though rather little has been made public about their evolution. While all manufacturer's ATRAC versions interoperate and are based upon Sony's original specification, it is not possible to compare their version numbers.

ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) divides the 16 bit 44.1 KHz digital signal into 52 sub-bands in the audio frequency domain. The sub-bands in the low frequencies are finer than the ones in the high frequency range. A psycho-acoustic transfer function that takes advantage of the masking effect and the absolute hearing threshold of man then removes sufficient information to reduce the data stream to 1/5th of the original size.

Introduced by Sony in January 2004, Hi-MD is a nearly complete revamping of the original Minidisc system. The most significant change is the introduction of Hi-MD media, which includes a new 1GB blank in the existing MD form-factor and a reformatting of existing MD media that doubles its capacity to 305MB. In addition, several important and long wished-for Minidisc capabilities have been incorporated into Hi-MD equipment.

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ATRAC stands for Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding and was developed for SONY to be used in the MiniDisc format. ATRAC allows up to 80 minutes of stereo audio to be stored on a disc much smaller than a 12cm diameter CD. It achieves this by reducing the data rate to and from disc to approximately 20% of the 44.1, 16 bit PCM data rate associated with CD. ATRAC uses various psycho-acoustical phenomena such as masking to remove audio data that is considered to be undetectable by the human ear.

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Sony claims a blank MD can handle up to 1 million recordings... Time will tell! In practice, the user Table of Contents (user TOC or UTOC) of an MD could become messed up by accident (defective MD recorder or physical damage) and render the MD unusable. The Sony portable MD recorder (MZ-1) allows to recover some unusable MD's in test mode (machine open and test jumper in place) via the TOC erase function: the TOC gets obliterated and that results in a "like-new" blank MD.