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Ceate multiple tracks from single MP3 files
Authored by: hondo77 on Jun 25, '04 11:47:24AM
Why don't you just rip the album twice: once with all the tracks separate and another time with all the tracks joined? I've done this and it's much simpler and results in smaller files.

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Ceate multiple tracks from single MP3 files
Authored by: pediddle on Jun 25, '04 02:00:04PM

I think the point is that ripping it twice uses twice as much space. This can add up on a laptop or ipod.



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Ceate multiple tracks from single MP3 files
Authored by: questor on Jun 28, '04 12:14:24PM

And by copying the full-length file, you're using FOURTEEN times as much disk space (given the thirteen tracks the original poster specified). Setting the start/end times doesn't affect the size of the file; it just causes the playback to start at the specified point rather than the beginning, and causes it to end after the specified duration. (If it did truncate the file, you'd have to re-rip it to move the start earlier or the end later, right?) And any time savings you're getting from only ripping the disc once is overwhelmed by the amount of time you spend playing the files, fiddling with the start/end times. The previous poster is right; it's better to just rip the disc twice, once all joined together and once as individual tracks (or smaller joined pieces). I've done that with a different Floyd disc, Dark Side of the Moon...



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Ceate multiple tracks from single MP3 files
Authored by: lstewart on Jun 28, '04 04:32:42PM

questor... I think it may be you who missed the point of the original hint. When you save the file from Quicktime Pro, it is actually just saving a small QuickTime .mov file (a few Kbytes) that references the original, full-length rip (still in MP3). You're making 14 copies of this small file, and setting the start/stop times on each of them. So in actuality it does save a lot of disk space.



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Ceate multiple tracks from single MP3 files
Authored by: galaher on Jun 25, '04 06:38:11PM

This is cool because I have purchased a Multimedia DVD that is mostly music (Zappa Halloween). I don't own a DVD player aside from my computer but would like to play this on my stereo, or on my wife's old iMac that doesn't play DVD's. I couldn't figure out a way to 'capture' the music until I used WireTap to record a hugh one-track file. Unless any one has a better idea then Wiretap for getting my audio dvd onto iTunes, I'll try playing with this hint.



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DVD audio capturing
Authored by: shavenyak on Jul 09, '04 10:04:00AM

I'm not sure how you'd do it on Mac, but there are plenty of shareware PC programs that can demux the audio off a DVD and save as .WAV files. DVD Decrypter is the one I use. It might be possible to run them in Virtual PC or something, or there's likely to be a Mac program to do the same thing.

I wish I could be more helpful, but I don't have a Mac yet. I'm just here to learn, and to pick up whatever iTunes hints apply in Windows. :)



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