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The two issues you referenced are also applicable to minidisc.
by cosmotic 6y ago
The two issues you referenced are also applicable to minidisc.
- bayindirh 6y agoMiniDisc doesn't brick-wall-compress the sound. Instead, it uses automatic gain to prevent clipping while recording from line-in. ATRAC encoding is also devoid of any compression. MD players generally have VU meters, and you can observe your music, since they generally have recording functionality and used in studio and/or interviews, getting sound as transparent as possible is the aim. Fun fact: Portable MD players are generally called "Portable MD Deck" by Sony to signal it's not a mere player but an audio equipment. Most MD decks contain indexing and primary tools for chopping a record to tracks and tagging them.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoATRAC is not devoid of compression. It's a lossy format which uses a crude form of spectral encoding - a bit like an MP3, but the model is less sophisticated. There is a rare variant called ATRAC Advanced Lossless but it was never available on many devices.
- bayindirh 6y agoOh, I think I failed to tell what I'm trying to tell. ATRAC is of course lossy and compresses the audio. The compression I mentioned was loudness maximizing/homogenizing compression which is used in mastering process, or in audio pipelines in general. So we can say that, ATRAC is devoid of any compressor stage which makes the resulting audio more loud by default. That loudness maximizer/equalizer also called compressor so it's easy to misrepresent or write misinforming things when talking about both at the same time. Sorry, my bad.
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