On Jul 1, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > 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. > I don't at all undertsand what I did here but it really worked the songs magically appeared in another folder and were able to be imported to iTunes with all the info. Thank you Kris you walk on water in this town.
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