On 26 Sep 2005 at 15:40, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 26 Sep 2005, at 2:22 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > The difficulty with using the Apple > > format is that none of my audio programs would probably be able to > > use it directly to write CDs or make MP3s (other than iTunes > > itself). > > Sure, but if you need to burn to CD, you can use iTunes to convert > the Apple Lossless files back to WAV as needed.
Well, sure, but with my old slow PC, this is a lot of work. If I make an audio CD from the WAV files created from MIDI, then I can use that audio CD to create new WAV files or MP3s as needed, without needing to depend on Apple's file format at all. > > I wish I knew what iTunes was doing (beyond > > normalization, which I do on the WAV files before conversion to MP3, > > but on a whole work, rather than on individual movements) because > > I'd love to be able to save it into the MP3 files permanently (like > > saving HP data in Finale). > > Is it possibly the settings in iTunes' mixer? I don't think there's > any way of writing that into the audio file. There's a mixer in iTunes? The version I have is 4, and I'm not about to upgrade to 5, given that I am running Win2K (and iTunes 5 is known to completely trash Win2K systems when installed). > > I actually haven't tried creating an MP3 > > with iTunes itself to see if it made a better MP3 -- I should try it > > (though I'd miss batch conversion). > > You can load and convert an entire folder at once in iTunes. I'll have to experiment with how this works, as it's not obvious to me from the UI. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
