[willed]

[brag]The BBC gave us a CD of our choir's radio broadcast that we did the other day (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio3_aod.shtml?choral), [/brag], but all of it, readings, Magnificat, hymns etc are on one huge track. I could only borrow the CD for a bit and don't have a burner, so it's now in iTunes as AAC. Can I split this track up in a lossless way? i.e. I guess I could convert it to AIFF and use Sound Studio, then convert it back to AAC, but I would prefer not to do all that lossy conversion.


PS you might find this funny - the producer was saying "of course this Magnificat was first performed in Westminster Cathedral - at least, that's what we've told the announcer!". Our choirmaster replies "well of course, if it's on the BBC it must be true," two days after the Hutton report came out. Oops

[Moonray]

If you have the QuickTime Pro player you can cut copy and paste just as you please.

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Originally posted by Moonray:
If you have the QuickTime Pro player you can cut copy and paste just as you please.

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Easiest way to do it.

[waffffffle]

From my experience with QT pro, when you cut and paste you can make .mov files with pieces of aac audio inside of them but you can only save as a movie file or export the audio, which would then reencode it. I don't think it can be done in a lossless way unless you want to keep the tracks as movie files and not as AAC files. iTunes will play them but the ID3 tags won't stick if you share the files.

[willed]

Oh well. Don't have QT Pro.

[bmedina]

Originally posted by waffffffle:
From my experience with QT pro, when you cut and paste you can make .mov files with pieces of aac audio inside of them but you can only save as a movie file or export the audio, which would then reencode it.

Not if you export to MPEG4 and select pass-through for the audio.

[WJMoore]

My suggestion would be to get the CD again and rip it as AIFF and then do you editing.

(Edit: Ooo 600th post )

[GeeYouEye]

Audion's waveform editor might do the trick.

[Person Man]

Originally posted by GeeYouEye:
Audion's waveform editor might do the trick.

Audion does not support AAC yet.

[ryaxnb]

Can GarageBand do it? Can iMovie do it?

[bmedina]

Originally posted by ryaxnb:
Can GarageBand do it? Can iMovie do it?

Not sure about GarageBand. iMovie can import the file, but it convert to AIFF. So you'd suffer generational loss in re-encoding the file after the edit.

Quicktime Pro is really the way to go if you don't have access to the CD anymore.

[dmcnickle]

You can use Amadeus II to cut up the track. It does support AAC.

[Guido]

Unless I'm not understanding your problem, it seems to me that the easy way to split your big file into smaller units is in itunes:

Select the "track" and under the FILE menu choose GET INFO and then select the OPTIONS tab. Then select "start time" and "stop time" based on when in the track your first, then second, etc. songs start and stop. After choosing the first start and stop time, then burn it onto a cd or easier yet, select the ADVANCED menu option and CONVERT TO AAC. Repeat those steps for each song based on their start and stop times.

Just a thought.