On Jul 1, 2010, at 7:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
I have a folder of Toast Audio files that represent a music CD but
I can't get them to play or convert to a music CD anyone know
about this. I have Toast 10, 8, 6, 5
To be more specific the file are FLAC I want to burn a CD with them
that I can play in a normal everyday CD player if there is such a
thing:-)
I got it handled an application called Switch, how simple.
Another option might be to import the FLAC files into iTunes and then
burn the AAC music CDs normally from iTunes. This also has the
advantage of getting your music into catalog form. When I have
lossless FLAC files, I normally import them into iTunes and then
convert them to Apple Lossless format because FLAC files don't have
data fields for artwork, or some other data attributes that I consider
worthwhile in iTunes. Once I've converted them to Apple Lossless I
normally trash the FLAC files because I can't hear any difference
between FLAC and Apple Lossless, and the files sizes are nearly
identical.
In order to import FLAC into iTunes you need three small bits of
software:
1) XiphQT (a QuickTime component that adds FLAC, Ogg, Vorbis, Speex,
Theora support)
2) FLAC Import Component 0.5b1 (another QuickTime component that adds
Import for FLAC)
3) Set OggS 0.1 (a script that changes a flag on the FLAC file so that
QuickTime recognizes it, this is a "drag & drop" script which means
you drag & drop your FLAC files on the icon and it will open Terminal
and do what's necessary to set the flag correctly. After the flag is
set you can drag & drop your FLAC files into iTunes normally).
You can get these three files here:
<http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/>
<http://people.xiph.org/~arek/flac_import/>
These components add FLAC, Ogg, Vorbis, Speex, and Theora support to
iTunes. I catalog all my music in iTunes, and having the ability to
import and play these files in iTunes is important for me. It's an
added bonus that iTunes makes burning normal audio CDs so easy, but my
car & computer CD players will all play MP3 files, and I almost never
burn an audio CD when I can get about 20x as many MP3 songs on a CD
using MP3 format.
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