this is what i do toast comes with a a little app called toast audio extractor its pretty much automatic all you have to do is select the tracks you want my personal method for burning audio cd's is to create a disk copy image volume of about 850mb and copy the tracks to that and burn from that. before burning i defrag the audio volume so the that tracks are contiguous this makes for a cleaner burn. (some do it from a ram disk - but not many of us have a spare 850mb of ram to play with) if i'm burning music for the car i'll import tracks into soundedit 16 and add some reverb to make up for the cars poor acoustics - but that may be a bit to much info for your question and it's just a personal preference (if i'm being really anal i'll "top and tail" the tracks, that is i'll remove any excess (imho) from either end of the track. (makes the track 5 or 10 secs smaller and hence over an entire 74 minute cd you can gain an extra (assuming 4 minutes a track) 90 secs to 180 secs off EXTRA music space WOOHOO!!!
btw you may be thinking why an 850mb volume when a 74 minute cd only holds 650mb of data. to be honest i don't know why but a 650mb volume comes up about 15mins short for audio data (assuming you want to use the a whole 74 mins - plus you need room for the defrag - 800mb is about right for 74 mins of music) i've waffled a bit Al "R.A. Cantrell" wrote: > > Slept through class again. What's the deal on "ripping" individual tracks > off audio cd's when you want to make a personal collection type audio cd? > I've been advised that it is better to "rip" them into a volume and then > drop the package into the Toast window, but I can't figure out how to copy > a track at all. Also, what's the difference in copying to a folder on the > volume that everything else is on and copying to a separate volume? -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
