Comments on: FAAD2 for OSX

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:38:11 +0000

You don’t say what version of OSX or iTunes you’re using, but I’m on 10.3.9 with Garageband 2.0.2 and iTunes 7.0.2. When I ‘export to iTunes’ it gets saved as an AIF file on disk in /Users/me/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Import. I wonder if later versions of Garageband now output AAC only? I then close Garageband (I always do this since I had problems with it ‘holding on’ to the exported file for some reason, then I open up a terminal window, cp into the above directory and run lame (version 3.97 which I compiled from source last time, though I have used fink to get it in the past) on the AIF file (lame input.aif output.mp3) and I get an mp3 file which can be further edited in Audacity or used wherever needed.

By: wf@williamfrantz.com

wf@williamfrantz.com — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:18:10 +0000

Well, if I was willing to accept AAC as the final format, I would have been done at step one. The Mac comes with Garage Band which had no trouble recording the audio input and saving an M4A file that iTunes and iPods will play just fine. I’m just extremely disappointed that Garage Band can’t create MP3 files. I know Apple wants to promote their own format, but ignoring MP3 completely just makes Garage Band about useless.

By: Jason the Coloradan

Jason the Coloradan — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:29:54 +0000

Yikes! I did the same thing a while back for a few of my cassette tapes, and it was A LOT easier than that! I used my good old Archos Jukebox Recorder. I just hooked it up to the cassette player, hit play on the cassette player, hit record on the Archos (puts it in mp3 format), then hooked up the Archos to my Linux computer with USB (works with ANY OS without any special software since it uses the USB Mass Storage Device protocol), and copied the files to my computer. My Archos may be pretty old and look like a tank compared to the “modern” mp3 players, but it does EVERYTHING I want it do do, unlke most if not all modern players that impose artificial, ridiculous restrictions on what you can and cannot do (for example, this M$ Zune player you talk about, I wouldn’t touch that thing with a 10 foot pole!)