
ATRAC CD

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, 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.
Install software.
Install the SonicStage Simple Burner (or SonicStage) CD-ROM. Select your favorite CD's or MP3 files create a CD image stored on hard disk, and burn it on a CD-R/RW using your PC. After this, you can listen to ATRAC CD on your CD player.
1. Estimated at 4 minutes per song, using 700MB CD-R/RW media.
2. Began on SonicStage Simple Burner Ver.1.1, SonicStage 2.X-3.X, and SonicStage CP.