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Old 2007-03-13, 01:17 PM
spiritinaphoto
 
Re: help please: Splitting large lossless m4a into tracks on MAC

That'd be an okay lineage, but it's preferable for minidiscs to be transferred digitally (i.e. using an optical transfer) instead of having to go through an analog conversion like you did. However, there aren't many people who have minidisc units capable of doing true digital transfers, so there shouldn't be too much of a problem there (that being said, if you're willing to ship out your masters to someone else for a digital transfer, you should definitely do it).

Also, it might freak some people out that you recorded the files to ALAC--it probably would have been easier to just record the files straight to WAV in Audacity.

Oh, did you pick the setting in Audacity to snap to CDDA frames? If you didn't, your files probably have SBEs, but that's easily fixable in the conversion to FLAC (just pick the "align on sector boundaries" option--I hope XLD has that option--if not, you may want to give xACT a try).

(P.S. The newest version of Audacity has support for handling FLAC files--if you know how to cut on sector boundaries, you could easily export the files as SBE-free FLACs.)
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