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Old 2012-11-06, 05:20 PM
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Re: New here and a Mac user. Where to start?

welcome dirt!



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For the most part, the quality is decent but not always soundboard. Is this acceptable?
yes -- so long as the files used to burn the CDRs were from lossless files [wavs], and not from mp3 or other lossy files


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And most of the discs were one track, do I need to identify the individual songs and break the recording into tracks?.
i would...will cover how below

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As I have no way of knowing the original source, how should I label these?
unknown source > CDR(x) > ..........


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Finally, as a Mac user, what program do people use for converting to FLAC?
i use xACT for extracting, converting to flac, creating schecksums, etcetc
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14246/xact


i'll give you step by step in the morning, gotta run right now
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