Tracktion Software

stanhoffman · Post by **stanhoffman** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:57 pm

Can Tracktion save/export in mp3 format?
If so, how?
If not, what is the best method/software to use for this?
I'm running OSX 10.3.4 on a G4.
Thanks!

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:20 pm

Do You have itunes? It works just fine for converting to mp3. It even gives you options regarding bit rate and so forth.

declassified · Post by **declassified** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:21 pm

Or export to WAV and compress it using CDex...

ezeeboogie · Post by **ezeeboogie** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:42 pm

Or export it to wav and use dBpowerAMP.

AndrewSimon · Post by **AndrewSimon** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:58 am

I use LAME

Dave Wiz · Post by **Dave Wiz** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:33 am

http://www.iomx.com/download/media_play ... weramp.htm

Export to a wav file and then use this. Its free and its rather good. It also allows you to do mp3 to wav also so that you can import into tracktion.
Hope it helps.
Dave

Crossinger · Post by **Crossinger** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:50 am

Did you guys actually *read* the original posting? He is on Mac! Except for iTunes none of the proposals above is of any value to him...

...or did you implicitly propose to switch to PCs...

J.

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:26 am

Bollocks to mp3, use Ogg Vorbis.

Seriously though, I believe the lack of mp3 export is to keep T's cost down (license fees..

)

If you have an audio editor, see if that exports mp3's.. otherwise the iTunes idea sounds good..

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:27 pm

platinumears wrote:Bollocks to mp3, use Ogg Vorbis.

Seriously though, I believe the lack of mp3 export is to keep T's cost down (license fees.. )

If you have an audio editor, see if that exports mp3's.. otherwise the iTunes idea sounds good..

Yeah, bollocks - I guess (sorry, I'm from the US). I don't care if Tracktion exports to MP3. I have about 5 apps that will do that when I actually have something good enough that I want other people to hear.

Let's have Jules follow the official wish list (Beno mentioned this) and I hope that MP3 export isn't on the top of that list.

-Scott

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:01 am

It doesn't have to be at the top, but I do hope it's on the the list somewhere. I can make do with an external utility to encode a track to mp3 format, but I would greatly prefer to have it built into Tracktion, so's I can mix down to mp3 in one step.

valley · Post by **valley** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:03 am

if it added to the cost then I'd rather there was no mp3 support at all. For the most part I am more than happy with ogg.

stanhoffman · Post by **stanhoffman** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:46 pm

Thanks for all the suggestions. Didn't realize iTunes could do that. If anyone has suggestions for other Mac utilities that can do it, please let me know. Thanks again.

jerbare · Post by **jerbare** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:22 am

valley wrote:if it added to the cost then I'd rather there was no mp3 support at all. For the most part I am more than happy with ogg.

i'd love to see support for mp3, although it should not increase the price due to licensing fees - if done correctly...

all jules/mackie need to do is provide mp3 support through a freely downloadable precompiled dll/plugin. (like lame). all the user needs to do is drop the specific file in the application directory and mp3 import/export is good to go. the catch is that this dll/plugin is not bundled or included with a purchased/shipped/downloadable copy of the software...

this is how bias got away with providing mp3 support in earlier versions of peak (not sure if they support it out of the box today or not).

i know i could really use the mp3 import support for my instrument practicing, which i do mostly to music...

just my $0.02

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:37 pm

I'm not a lawyer, but if I understand things correctly, there is a flaw in the concept of using a free LAME plugin:

LAME is not normally freely available as a precompiled download. The entire purpose of the LAME project is to provide the source code. As such, it is not precompiled software and skirts the licensing issue. But once you compile it and distribute it, you owe licensing fees on every copy distributed. Such is the trouble with software patents.

While I dislike software patents, they are a reality. And when it comes to Tracktion, I don't mind paying a little extra for more functionality. This is a useful function for those of us who distribute music via the web, and I would rather see integrated mp3 encoding than any other format, because it is cross-platform and universal. It is the one compressed audio format you are assured to have support for on every platform out of the box. There is value in that, and I think it's worth a little extra money if necessary.

nuisance sonore · Post by **nuisance sonore** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:56 pm

AFAIK, Audacity has a Mac osx version, so does Lame. I use Lame and I think it's the best out there, paid or otherwise.

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