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Burn audio CDs from MIDI files via Toast Apps
A while back, there was a hint describing how to use iTunes to convert midi files to audio, for burning to CD. Toast Titanuim 7.1 (Universal) now does the same thing.

Choose the Audio CD tab, drag a _MIDI_ file to the window (it converts it to AIFF), then burn the CD.
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Burn audio CDs from MIDI files via Toast
Authored by: Lobo-X on Aug 22, '06 11:16:56AM

My old Toast 4 running under System 7.5 used to do the same... Slower, though.



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Burn audio CDs from MIDI files via Toast
Authored by: dcottle on Aug 24, '06 12:07:59PM

Really? That's amazing. Are you sure it converted to audio (that could be played back on a regular CD player). If you burn them as MIDI data they would still play on a computer.

I tried it on OS X Toast 6.0.3 and it wouldn't accept the MIDI file. I'm surprised they wouldn't have ported that feature to OS X.



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Burn audio CDs from MIDI files via Toast
Authored by: morespace54 on Aug 22, '06 01:46:50PM

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, if you choose create an "Audio CD" within Toast, it does convert *pretty* much any format to .AIFF (at least MP3s and some more)



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Burn audio CDs from MIDI files via Toast
Authored by: dcottle on Aug 24, '06 12:22:18PM

We should resubmit the hint to include this in the title. I tried mp3, m4a, aiff, and even a quicktime movie (it strips the audio). I wish I'd known. I used to routinely open files in Amadeus to convert them before burning.

Turns out older versions of Toast (6.0.3) handle mp3, m4a, etc, but they don't do MIDI files, so this is new feature to 7.x. What's more, you can drag all these different formats to a single session and it will convert them all to aiff before burn.



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iTunes 6.0.3, 4, and 5 no longer can do this.
Authored by: j-beda on Aug 25, '06 06:54:52AM
It doesn't work any more in iTunes 6.0.3, 6.0.4, or 6.0.5 according to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303429, which says:

iTunes: MIDI files cannot be converted in iTunes 6.0.3 - 6.0.5

Attempting to convert a MIDI file to another format in iTunes results in an alert message:

Error occurred while converting the file "filename". An unknown error occurred. (-50).

Products affected

* iTunes 6.0.3
* iTunes 6.0.4
* iTunes 6.0.5

Solution

If you have QuickTime Pro, you can export the MIDI files in QuickTime Pro to another audio format (such as WAV or AIFF) using QuickTime Player, and then convert those files in iTunes.


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