Hi Chris. I did everything you suggested in getting Xcode and macports, and got 
them installed The only thing i did differently, was install x ports, with is 
supposed to be the new x11. When I tried to do the 

sudo port upgrade outdated

I got some sort of error message I can't remember right now. When I did the 
self update, everything seemed to go smoothly. Any ideas? Thanks again.

Shane

On Jun 24, 2013, at 3:28 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are two part. First, you need to get Terminal itself running. Terminal 
> is in your utilities folder which you can get to quickly from the Finder by 
> hitting Command-Option-U and typing T should jump you to terminal (unless you 
> have a bunch of utilities that all start with T). Then you can just hit 
> command-O to open it.
> 
> The second part is to install Mac Ports. Instructions are here:
> 
> http://www.macports.org/install.php
> 
> You'll need to install Apple's xcode first and then you can install Macports.
> 
> With Macports installed you can now choose from a huge number of available 
> unix packages which have been ported to the Mac. I set mine up ages ago so I 
> don't recall the exact setup but I don't think required much more than 
> downloading the installer for my flavor of OSX and running that. Then I can 
> do the rest from terminal. First I usually do a 
> 
> sudo port selfupdate
> 
> which updates it's internal database of available ports and versions. Then I 
> do
> 
> sudo port upgrade outdated
> 
> which grabs any updates for anything I have installed in macports. To install 
> something like sox I would do
> 
> sudo port install sox
> 
> which will fetch and install sox along with any other things sox depends on.
> 
> CB
> 
> On 6/24/13 1:39 PM, shane christenson wrote:
>> Thanks, Chris. I've never done anything in a terminal window on the mac. 
>> How's the best way to pull up a terminal window, from the finder, or 
>> anywhere else for that matter? Thanks.
>> 
>> Shane
>> 
>> On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> When in the Finder, doing a Get Info (command-I) on an mp3 file will give 
>>> you all kinds of details but some of it is hidden behind a "More Info" 
>>> collapsed disclosure triangle. If you expand that with the space bar then 
>>> VO-right you'll find a bunch of stuff including the sample rate and 
>>> duration.
>>> 
>>> If you're into the terminal thing the sox package can also get info using 
>>> the "soxi name_of_your_file.mp3" command which will spit out everything you 
>>> might want to know about a file. It can also handle batches so if I do 
>>> "soxi *.mp3" in a particular folder it will display all the info about all 
>>> the files and the very last line will be the total playing time and a file 
>>> count.
>>> 
>>> CB
>>> 
>>> On 6/23/13 12:20 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> You're on the right track.  When in the Get Info window, make sure you're 
>>>> on the Summary tab.  Navigate right, the first item after the tabs should 
>>>> be the Title of the mp3 file, the next item is the one you want.  It will 
>>>> start by saying the Kind of file that it is, mp3, AAC and so on.  The Bit 
>>>> Rate and more will be announced there as well.
>>>> 
>>>> Later...
>>>> 
>>>> Tim Kilburn
>>>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>>> 
>>>> On 2013-06-22, at 9:08 PM, shane christenson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi, listers. How do I find the bit rate of an mp3 file on my mac? I 
>>>>> selected a single mp3 file, went into its context menu, and into the get 
>>>>> info window, and seemingly found everything but the bit rate. Any help 
>>>>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Shane
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