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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 2/1/2014 9:57 AM (GMT -6) |   | I'm at a choral retreat this weekend, or I would just be experimenting at home...
For the first time yesterday, I looked into creating MP3 files with 2012 on the Mac, just before I walked out of the house (see above!) There was no option to do so, like I remember on Windows.
I looked in the online user manual this morning, and it doesn't mention MP3s on Mac, just "compressed Audio file." Is that the same thing, or do I still need to use Audacity and LAME?
The 2014 manuals talk about compressed audio file for both Mac and Windows.
(Yes, I'm back to using 2012. 2014a works in a new user account, but not on my primary, and I haven't got the intestinal fortitude to find the problem. Or to keep flipping back and forth.)
Mike Rosen
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Zuill
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| Posted 2/1/2014 10:17 AM (GMT -6) | | When using MIDI, Finale allows rendering directly to compressed audio. Test that and see what Mac does (what kind of file). However, converting from wav to compressed can be done outside Finale. Audacity is one way, of course. I think iTunes can do it as well.
As a Windows user, I shouldn't be commenting. But there are options, AFAIK.
Zuill
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 2/1/2014 10:23 AM (GMT -6) | | | |
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 2/1/2014 10:35 AM (GMT -6) | | David,
Thanks, I'll give it a whirl.
Bill,
No, I'm just using soft synth. After reading all the comments about loading sounds, and ARIA player, and the like, I decided that was way out of my pay grade. All I saw was "compress audio," and I looked both with Play through MIDI, and Play through Audio Units. Hence my confusion?
Mike Rosen
www.specialmillwork.com
Bass with Choir of the Sound www.choirofthesound.org
Volunteer notation editor (The Gang of Eight) for the Barbershop Harmony Society
FINALE TIPS at www.specialmillwork.com/finale-tips-and-tricks/index.html
Finale 2010, 2011, 2012c, 2014a on Mac 10.9.1
Simple Entry, QWERTY keyboard. That's my system, and I'm stickin' to it.
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Zuill
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| Posted 2/1/2014 10:37 AM (GMT -6) | | In Windows, Finale renders compressed as mp3. There are other compressed formats in Windows, most notably wma, which is Windows own proprietary compressed format. There are other compressed formats, as ogg. However, mp3 is the most universally used. Mp4 is another format.
Zuill
P.S.: If you're using softsynth in Audio Units, you don't have the option of mp3. You have to select MIDI.
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
Finale 2002b, 2003a, 2004b, 2005b, Win XP SP3, 2011b Win 7 64bit, 2012a Bought and Paid For (Hopefully soon 2012b with some of the MAJOR BUGS fixed--well, now with 2012b and some of the bugs are fixed) 2012c, with some bug fixes. 2014 now.
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 2/1/2014 10:39 AM (GMT -6) | | | |
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Zuill
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| Posted 2/1/2014 11:15 AM (GMT -6) | | I would still do it in a program like Audacity, where I have more options, such as normalizing and trimming.
Zuill
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
Finale 2002b, 2003a, 2004b, 2005b, Win XP SP3, 2011b Win 7 64bit, 2012a Bought and Paid For (Hopefully soon 2012b with some of the MAJOR BUGS fixed--well, now with 2012b and some of the bugs are fixed) 2012c, with some bug fixes. 2014 now.
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Jim Coull
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| Posted 2/1/2014 11:49 AM (GMT -6) | | Mike,
On my version of 2012, the export to Audio (File>Export>Audio file...) gives you the choice of a Standard Audio File (I assume this is an AIFF file) or a Compressed MP3 file. I don't really know much about the differences between audio file formats, but when I save as a "Compressed MP3 file" from 2012, the resultant file has the .mp3 extension and is listed as an MP3 audio file in the get info box for the file. This would lead me to believe that 2012's compressed audio file is an MP3 file. Like you, I just use the soft synth, so there is no need to go outside Finale to get an MP3 file. Hopes this makes a bit of sense.
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 2/1/2014 12:10 PM (GMT -6) | | | |
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