Topic: www.cdwave.com for a Mac?

[ljsurfer2002]

A friend of mine has a SBD CD she got from performing at a venue. It is all 1 track and she wants to extract it, cut it into tracks and then convert those .wav files to .mp3. Using a PC, i'd of course have no problem doing it for her. EAC to extract the one track, load into cdwave and then cut and export to .wav and then convert to .mp3 using DBpoweramp.

But she has a mac. And is a few states away. She is very computer illiterate. I don't know crap about macs... what program do I tell her to use? Thanks!

[Patrick]

Extract with Scott's xACT into one large file. Link.

Cut the file up into tracks using Audacity Link.

Fix SBE's and convert to flac using xACT ^^

Hope that helps!

[keytohwy]

Is it not reasonable to have her send you the disc? 
Or maybe there is a another TS member in her town that could help her out?

keytohwy

A friend of mine has a SBD CD she got from performing at a venue. It is all 1 track and she wants to extract it, cut it into tracks and then convert those .wav files to .mp3. Using a PC, i'd of course have no problem doing it for her. EAC to extract the one track, load into cdwave and then cut and export to .wav and then convert to .mp3 using DBpoweramp.

But she has a mac. And is a few states away. She is very computer illiterate. I don't know crap about macs... what program do I tell her to use? Thanks!

[ljsurfer2002]

I think it is the 'teach a girl to fish' thing. I've done the conversion for her in the past when she lived in town, but she's an actively performing musician. it's time for her to learn how to work a computer audio editing program.

I wish there was a 'simple' program like cdwave. audacity might be a little too high brow for her learning curve. oh well, she'll have to learn!

[Patrick]

I think it is the 'teach a girl to fish' thing. I've done the conversion for her in the past when she lived in town, but she's an actively performing musician. it's time for her to learn how to work a computer audio editing program.

I wish there was a 'simple' program like cdwave. audacity might be a little too high brow for her learning curve. oh well, she'll have to learn!

Yeah, there is no all in one program like CD Wav to use with macs, but using Audacity or SoundStudio is not too difficult, just add markers, and then export. 

[greenone]

You can also use xACT to split by feeding it a cue sheet, if she wants to just listen and figure out where she wants to put the splits...

[Sanjay]

I wish I knew how to compile a program for macs, cdwav would be the absolute first one.