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OS 8.6 or 9.1 CD Ripper?
Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-06-08 00:15:16
Looking for a bit of code that will work on a PB1400c to make compressed files from CDs on OS 8.6 or 9.1. Anyone know of anything that will work? I tried iTunes 2.x on OS 9.1 and no dice. Perhaps there's an extension I am missing?

Best,

John

Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-06-08 00:55:04
iTunes 1.1 will do it. I had that running on 8.6 on my 1400. Or have a look at puremac.com for a couple of other choices. There's one who's name I forget which was bought by Apple and actually became iTunes, IIRC. Anyone?

Posted by: slomacuser on 2010-06-08 02:07:42
SoundJam MP

Posted by: avw on 2010-06-08 02:12:32
Bunsen you are talking about SoundJam. But the best one in Audion, if I undestood right and we are talking about sound compression. http://panic.com/audion/

Also be sure to read their Audion story – how they not became iTunes 😉 http://panic.com/extras/audionstory/

Posted by: Bunsen on 2010-06-08 03:49:39
SoundJam and Audio were indeed the two names I was trying to remember. And I also recall Audion being quoted as the better quality compressor of the two.

Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2010-06-08 06:43:57
There's also a port of BladeEnc if you want to do it by hand in QuickTime.

http://www.helsinki.fi/~pkamppur/bladeencmac.html

Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-06-08 23:54:12
Sweet, thanks. Audion works, pulled my first song but didn't have time to go deep into it.

Best,

John

Posted by: CJ_Miller on 2010-06-10 05:18:40
Not an encoder, but Astarte CD-Copy is good for secure rips, not unlike EAC. Also handy for other data retrieval tasks. (Has anybody seen Sam Lowry?)

Posted by: ppuskari on 2010-06-11 17:14:18
I used to use Astarte CD-Copy for years. It was by far the best accurate ripper of the time. But that's pretty much all it did and did that very well.

I've just become an Audion user and it is a very slick app. I can't even believe how I missed it back in the hey day. I was a SoundJam user though which is probably something to do with that. MacAMP wasn't too bad either.

But for ripping and burning, CD-Copy and Toast were the killer apps I used even all the way back to version 1.02e in 1992. Never did much reencoding back then though.

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