[maxmsp] [somewhat ot] Importing Audio from CD

On Aug 8, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Patrick Delges wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I never noticed any dropout when importing audio CD, but almost  
> never did it with iTunes.



> To get an audio file from an audio CD, just copy the track from the  
> CD to a hard disk, OSX will create an AIFF file for you (lathough  
> it may be AIFC, but the conversion is easy).

under the hood, wouldn't this just do the same thing (as in use the  
same slurping utility) as iTunes does?


> Peak can also import files from audio CDs.

I wonder about Peak too....  it used to be terrible at importing CDs  
in the old days.. I will
try it as i have and use peak 5.x .... forgot all about peak's  
importing abilities.... hmm...


> If you really have to compare audio files, you could use diff in a  
> shell (although i'm quite sure there must be some UI versions  
> available, I remember there was one on NeXTStep).

Filemerge.app ...

look in :

/Developer/Applications/Utilities/

and you will see an old friend ....

hehe you are as old as me... [that would be very old]

-kevin