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Atrac meaning
Initialism of Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding: a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony and originally used for MiniDiscs.
Using Atrac
- The main meaning on this page is: Initialism of Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding: a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony and originally used for MiniDiscs.
- In the example corpus, atrac often appears in combinations such as: the atrac, and atrac, atrac format.
Context around Atrac
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Atrac
- In this selection, "atrac" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, support, format, supporting, codec, format and advanced stand out and add context to how "atrac" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include advanced lossless atrac and atrac allowed a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "atrac" sits close to words such as abadi, abdelaziz and absolutist, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with atrac
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
News portal, discussion forums and downloads related to ATRAC. (9 words)
Recent Walkman players do not support ATRAC Advanced Lossless/ATRAC. (10 words)
MiniDisc was the first commercial product to incorporate ATRAC in 1992. (11 words)
This is reflected in the design of the ATRAC codecs, which tend to emphasize processing smaller numbers of samples at a time to save memory at the cost of compression efficiency and additional multiplies. (34 words)
Sony's ATRAC codec differs from uncompressed PCM in that it is a psychoacoustic lossy audio data reduction scheme and is such that the recorded signal does not require decompression on replay. (32 words)
Sony has all but dropped the ATRAC related codecs in the USA and Europe and their SonicStage powered 'Connect' Music Service (Sony's equivalent of iTunes) on 31 March 2008. (30 words)
Example sentences (17)
Contrary to most Walkman lines, Sony Ericsson Walkman Phones did not support Sony's proprietary audio format, ATRAC (with all of its variants, except certain Japanese models supporting ATRAC).
Recent Walkman players do not support ATRAC Advanced Lossless/ATRAC.
ATRAC allowed a relatively small disc like MiniDisc to have the same running time as CD while storing audio information with minimal loss in perceptible quality.
General bitrate quality ATRAC's original 292 kbit/s bitrate was designed to be close to CD quality acoustically.
MiniDisc was the first commercial product to incorporate ATRAC in 1992.
News portal, discussion forums and downloads related to ATRAC.
Quality is generally transparent for many people (meaning that it is not possible to tell an ATRAC encoding from the source).
Some original sounds have been known to defeat ATRAC which introduces (typically) a crackle or whistle onto the data stream.
Sony has all but dropped the ATRAC related codecs in the USA and Europe and their SonicStage powered 'Connect' Music Service (Sony's equivalent of iTunes) on 31 March 2008.
Sony's ATRAC codec differs from uncompressed PCM in that it is a psychoacoustic lossy audio data reduction scheme and is such that the recorded signal does not require decompression on replay.
Sony's Xplod series of car audio CD players support ATRAC CDs.
Sony Walkmans offer better battery life when playing ATRAC files as compared to MP3 files.
The players used Sony's proprietary ATRAC format, and were available in a number of capacities, up to 1 GB.
There have been four versions of the ATRAC data reduction system, each claimed (by Sony) to more accurately reflect the original audio.
This is reflected in the design of the ATRAC codecs, which tend to emphasize processing smaller numbers of samples at a time to save memory at the cost of compression efficiency and additional multiplies.
This transition away from the ATRAC codec was to allow the Walkman line to be adopted by more potential customers and their specific and unique preferences on online music services.
To further extend MP3 support, Sony moved to phase out the ATRAC format.
Common combinations with atrac
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: