Minidisc to mp3?

[Ike Harris]

Hi-

I've not even made an mp3 before but have a desire to send an audioclip to a buyer of my bass before shipping it to him. I've made some recordings with a minidisc and have a mac w/itunes but not experienced in doing any sort of clips on my own. If there's someone out there patient enough to walk it through with me, I would appreciate the help.

Thanks,

Ike

[arto alho]

Hey Ike,
get an easy-to-work recording software, like Audio Hijack Pro.
With Audio Hijack it´s pretty simple, it records any source you
put to your mac´s sound input. You can record the tracks
directly into iTunes.

R2

[Bassist4Life]

Ike,

I did the very same thing you're trying to do.

I used the mini disc into an iMic. The software I used is free. It's Audacity.

If you have these things, I can do my best to walk you through it.


Joe

[TroyK]

Final Vinyl works too. I haven't used it enough to say that I like it necessarily, but it's free and will do what you need it to on a mac.

[andrewc4000]

I got a free program off the internet to record. It's called audacity. here's the link for it here.
http://solscope.com/~ochsa/
go down to where it says "Music and Media(11/12)" and you'll see the mac dl for it. it's a great program

[Silversorcerer]

Tell us a little more about your Mac. In the versions both past and present of iTunes that I have used, you can go into the preferences panel to the advanced tab and choose the type of file (MP3, wav, aiff, etc.) that iTunes produces when it imports the music from the minidisc. Caution! Some of the new Macbooks and other laptops don't like minidiscs. If your version of iTunes has those choices in preferences, you don't need any other software to make MP3s. Just change the type of file that iTunes produces when it imports to MP3, choose the bit rate (128 Kbps sounds as good as an FM broadcast, higher is better and larger). Then you can import your recordings from the minidisc as MP3 files. These files will be stored in your profile (OS X) in your "Music" folder in the iTunes directory. If you are e-mailing the file, you can attach it to the e-mail and browse to that directory to attach it. If you want to burn the MP3 to a disc and USPS mail it, create a new playlist in iTunes, drag the recordings from the library to the new playlist. Open that playlist and hit the "burn" button on the iTunes screen. iTunes will ask you for a blank disc and then you can select the type of CD. You want to make an MP3 disc. Select that option and it will make the disc. It is pretty simple on most later Macs to do what you want to do without anything but iTunes and a CD burner equipped Mac.

Many later Macs come with Apple's GarageBand program installed, which is a full feartured multi-track recording program which works with many recording interfaces or with any external mic that you can plug into your sound port or even with the internal mic on the computer. GarageBand is comparable to programs like Cubase LE, but is somewhat more straightforward in its controls and I really like it's editing panel. From GarageBand, you can send a recording straight to iTunes with one click. With an interface that allows it, up to 8 simultaneous live tracks can be recorded by GarageBand, so it's no slacker in that department.