apollo-saves VS ATRACTool-Reloaded

I'm doing that for the Save-game database I built for Apollo, so if anyone wants feel free to fork, clone and keep copies of this repo: https://github.com/bucanero/apollo-saves

If you want to share or upload your own saves, feel free to check my GitHub repository: https://github.com/bucanero/apollo-saves

If people wants to contribute decrypted PS4 saves, they can upload them here: https://github.com/bucanero/apollo-saves/issues/new/choose

If your recordings are exclusively LP2/4, you can use ATRACtool to convert them to LPCM WAV and there's a potential that this ~2015-era tool will get a better result than the Type-S decks

Whoops! Sorry for leaving that out - that's at3tool.exe, packaged for easy-ish use here: https://github.com/XyLe-GBP/ATRACTool-Reloaded

If you're planning on AT3+ mode recordings, either use SonicStage or get a copy of ATRACtool, which can convert AT3 files to WAV files which you can then drop in your DAW or re-cmpress to "literally anything else" per your needs.

In Homebrew mode, you'll get the raw ATRAC off the disc. If you have windows, you can then use ATRACtool to convert LP-mode tracks to WAVs to re-encode. For SP mode tracks, you'll be using VLC or ffmpeg, which is "fine" but if these are quality-critical recordings you may like the results you get better using the line output on the MDS-NT1 or a NetMD deck that has digital optical audio output, depending.

Right now: Yes, for LP2 and LP4 audio. [other formats] can be converted to ATRAC3 132/66 using a tool like ATRACtool. If you use the "remote encoder" option in Web Minidisc, it's using this tool under the hood to do the conversion.

Best: using the remote encoder option on web.minidisc.wiki or using the ATRACtool

If these are LP2 or LP4 recordings, you can achieve Sony-quality conversions on your computer by renaming the AEA files to OMA and using ATRACtool.

Oh yeah, the ATRAC tool I was using is here: https://github.com/XyLe-GBP/ATRACTool-Reloaded

For ATRAC3plus on HiMD, you may be able to avoid the open source codecs by using https://github.com/XyLe-GBP/ATRACTool-Reloaded - but I haven't tried it myself and I don't know how well it works with the files WebMD pro creates. It outright won't support ATRAC1 for SP files, but that at least gets you worked around for HiMD and MDLP.