[david correia]

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(hank alrich) wrote:

Buzard's Asshole wrote:

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On Oct 1, 10:03 pm, "Phil W" wrote:
geoff:

A cute trick of Digidesign is to make it as difficult as possible to
migrate work to/from other systems.

But the other makers do the same...

For example AAF file transfer
requires a $495 add-on program to achieve, where it is native in most
other DAWs (which cost less than the 'translator' !).

Just ridiculous, but there are obviously enough people stupid enough to
pay
for such converters, rather than looking for a freeware alternative on
the
web, that works just as well...
Anyway, Steinberg and Cakewalk also want money, if you want to encode
MP3
files within Cubase or Sonar. It´s much less than Digidesign wants for
the
AAF add-on, but the principle is the same.

Phil

I use iTunes for MP3's. You just drag a file onto iTunes and it will
do what you have set it to.

Itunes? Quite a professional, you are.

Overlooking the source of this missive, I note that some heavy hitters
who participate in DAW-Mac also use iTunes for efficient MP3 encoding,
and it ain't like they don't have other options.

Of course, they're not jacking off in some Australian Baskin-Robbins
thinking they're making pro ice cream.

--
ha
shut up and play your guitar




I agree with the hippy ;

Fews years back I needed an mp3 converter for an important project that
need low bit rates (the RISD Museum). After spending a day banging away
on everything I could find in the Mac world, as a lark, I tried iTunes
on my son's Mac. I'd bought him an ipod a few months after they hit the
street cuz his mother and I were always buying batteries for his Discman.

For these low bit rates, and to my surprise, iTunes sounded the best.

I still use iTunes when I need a mp3 for something. Which lucky-for-me
ain't often.





David Correia
www.Celebrationsound.com