ATRAC CD

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ATRAC CD

Filename extension	.aa3 .oma .at3 .at9 .atp
Developed by	Sony Corporation
Type of format	Audio file format

ATRAC CD is an audio compression optical disc developed by Sony. It uses the ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus formats from Sony's ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) family of proprietary audio compression algorithms.

Description[]

ATRAC CD was used with SonicStage Simple Burner software (Ver.1.0 / 1.1) in February 2003,^[1][2] and was subsequently replaced with SonicStage in 2004. The new CD Walkman product was called "ATRAC CD Walkman". In the following year (2004-2005), ATRAC CD boombox was introduced as a new product.

^*1 "ATRAC" here refers to the SP mode used in the MD format.

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.

See also[]

• Walkman
• SonicStage
• ATRAC
• OpenMG
• Hi-MD

References[]

External links[]

• ATRAC
• SONY CD Walkman

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