How to use NoteBurner with Sony SonicStage to convert AA3 to MP3

AA3 is a kind of compressed audio file that uses Sony's ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) compression; supported by Sony audio devices and the Connect Music Services online store, which has been discontinued; AA3 files do not include any copy protection or digital rights management (DRM). Though such format can be played in Sony PSP or other Sony media devices, once if you want to transfer AA3 files to popular devices nowadays, like iPod, Zune, or mobile phones, you need to learn how to convert these AA3 files to some universal format like MP3.

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Usually, such AA3 owners have SonicStage installed, since that both of them are related to Sony. Considering the burning feature in SonicStage, we can use a very useful tool named NoteBurner to do this job.

Firstly, download and install NoteBurner AA3 to MP3 Audio Converter from this link, run it and go to Settings menu, set MP3 as output format.

Launch SonicStage, and turn to My Library window of SonicStage. Select the AA3 music you want to convert and right click on them, then go to menu Transfer To > Creating an Audio CD:
Select music in SonicStage to burn to CD

SonicStage will change to Transfer mode automatically. Please change the Drive on the right panel to NoteBurner’s drive letter, and click the red recording button to start converting:
select NoteBurner virtual CD burner in SonicStage
(Note: NoteBurner in this example is installed in G: drive, and this may be different from yours. Please select the correct one.)

A settings window will appear, press OK here:
SonicStage writing settings

SonicStage starts writing audio CD:
SonicStage starts burning virtual CD

And NoteBurner will start encoding later:
Noteburner M4P Converter starts encoding
(Note: Please run SonicStage and NoteBurner at the same time, otherwise, this encoding window will not appear and the conversion will fail.)

After a while, your AA3 music would be converted successfully. Right click on the music files in NoteBurner and select Open File Location, and then you can locate those MP3 immediately. Now, you can transfer them to PSP, iPod, Zune, or mobile phone, and enjoy!