I *believe* that the Sony ATRAC format is the native compression used in the MiniDisc products and their portable MP3 players.

Their portable MP3 products convert actual MP3 files into some other format (presumably ATRAC) and serialize the files for "security".

It seems to be a closed format, maybe along the lines of a Liquid Audio.

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