BigFloppy Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 Lets free up the other thread(s). Have at it guys, lets open this Z1 up! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
navipro Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 These are Compressed audio files in sonys minidisk format. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pulp_Fiction Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 [quote name="navipro"]These are Compressed audio files in sonys minidisk format.[/quote] Are you able to play them in anything? I'm concerned they are encrypted in some way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gerard143 Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 someone with a non xp sp2 machine download the liquid audio plugin for winamp. just do a search under plugins for liquid audio install it then go to plugins, under input select it and hit configure and get a passport to play on this machine only. then see if these at3's will play with that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pulp_Fiction Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 [quote name="gerard143"]someone with a non xp sp2 machine download the liquid audio plugin for winamp. just do a search under plugins for liquid audio install it then go to plugins, under input select it and hit configure and get a passport to play on this machine only. then see if these at3's will play with that.[/quote] Ok, I grabbed one and set it to image with XP - no service pack. Should take 30 min. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pulp_Fiction Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 No go with the Winamp and plugin. also tried to convert the Atrac to wav and mp3 with no luck. Tool can be found here: [url]http://marcnetsystem.co.uk/cgi-bin/mn2.pl?ti=1149883039?drs=,V83M0R564,39,2,[/url] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gerard143 Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 this is a pain in the ass isnt it. wtf did they go with atrac format. i mean if the quality it still gonna blow and we cant run mp3s or high bit rate atracs then i think i'd just rather play the music off a dvd data disc ripped with mp3s using roxio method no? as long as searching thru music is still as easy as it would be as searching on the disc i dont really care. i can fit my entire collection on a dual layer dvd. man i need to get my hand on one of these z1's soon so i can contribute more and figure this thing out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pulp_Fiction Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 [quote name="gerard143"]this is a pain in the ass isnt it. wtf did they go with atrac format. i mean if the quality it still gonna blow and we cant run mp3s or high bit rate atracs then i think i'd just rather play the music off a dvd data disc ripped with mp3s using roxio method no? as long as searching thru music is still as easy as it would be as searching on the disc i dont really care. i can fit my entire collection on a dual layer dvd. man i need to get my hand on one of these z1's soon so i can contribute more and figure this thing out.[/quote] Well, cracking the main operating system will allow us to get into adding another media player or something. That will help with the quality issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pulp_Fiction Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 I found out why these Atrac file suck. From another board: you gotta understand that ATRAC basec codecs are designed to only be played back on Sony headphones. Explains everything. lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Marauder Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 [quote name="BigFloppy"]There are 3 of these .AT3 located an ftp site: ftp.bigfloppydonkeyballs.com username: leech password: account [/quote] BigFloppy, I can't log in to the FTP server using that account and password--is it still up? I have some audio apps that I'd like to try opening those files with... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigFloppy Posted June 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Looks like someone is downloading the files right now... shouldn't be any problems Andy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Marauder Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 [quote name="Marauder"] [quote name="BigFloppy"]There are 3 of these .AT3 located an ftp site: ftp.bigfloppydonkeyballs.com username: leech password: account [/quote] BigFloppy, I can't log in to the FTP server using that account and password--is it still up? I have some audio apps that I'd like to try opening those files with...[/quote] Doh! Nevermind, it was an Internet Explorer issue--I ftp'd in from the DOS prompt and it worked fine... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Marauder Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 OK, I tried reading the files in every audio application at my disposal, including Sony's own Vegas and Sound Forge, and nothing could read them. I had high hopes for ACID Pro 6, which is advertised as being able to read ATRAC files (with .aa3 and .oma extensions), but even that didn't work. I did try simply renaming the AT3 files to extensions that ACID Pro supports, but it still didn't know what to do with them. I'm wondering if they must use some kind of encryption, in addition to compression, to make sure these files can't be copied, and that audio files can't simply be written to the disk from a computer. If that's the case, they could use the unit's serial number in the encryption; this can be tested by moving a hard drive from one AVIC-Z1 to another, and seeing if the music is still accessible. Has anyone been brave enough to try that yet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
edrock200 Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 [quote name="BigFloppy"]Lets free up the other thread(s). There are 3 of these .AT3 located an ftp site: ftp.bigfloppydonkeyballs.com username: leech password: account Go grab them! Lets try and see what they are... are they real PSP audio files OR just a renamed other type of audio file. We know (almost for certain) they're compressed audio files. Have at it guys, lets open this Z1 up![/quote] Did you shut down the site? I'd like to download one of the files to play with. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigFloppy Posted June 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Site is still up... DO NOT USE EXPLORER TO GET THERE Use an ftp program Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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