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Timothy Miller
Greetings,
I am a visitor from the planet Macintosh. I've begun to use a Windows XP
laptop for reasons I won't go into.
On the Macintosh planet, I use this great shareware program called
Amadeus. It opens and saves sound/music in a variety of formats,
including AIFF and Mp3. It gives me a lot of control over mono vs.
stereo, bit rate, sampling rate, etc. I can import from a CD, get input
from a microphone, etc.
It's not really for ripping, because it converts everything to AIFF, for
editing purposes, then saves in any format I want.
It's shareware $25, and an excellent product.
I mostly use it for adding voice narration to music I've extracted from
Audio CDs. I just use a USB microphone, or whatver is handy.
I do it to help music appreciation students understand classical music.
(E.G., They play my narrated CD. They hear the music, plus my voice at
times: "Here's the theme, here's variation 1, variation 2, here's a new
theme, etc. I'm -- what's it called? -- overdubbing -- the voice
narration goes on top of the music, which is not interrupted. Sometimes
they hear it as an MP3, sometimes I just burn an aiff CD-R.)
I also have Peak LE. This does the job just as well, and I think it's
available for Windows, but it's much more expensive, and it does way too
many things I don't need. And it crashes too often.
What are some of the most popular Windows shareware apps that do about
the same thing as Amadeus?
Thanks in advance,
Tim Miller
I am a visitor from the planet Macintosh. I've begun to use a Windows XP
laptop for reasons I won't go into.
On the Macintosh planet, I use this great shareware program called
Amadeus. It opens and saves sound/music in a variety of formats,
including AIFF and Mp3. It gives me a lot of control over mono vs.
stereo, bit rate, sampling rate, etc. I can import from a CD, get input
from a microphone, etc.
It's not really for ripping, because it converts everything to AIFF, for
editing purposes, then saves in any format I want.
It's shareware $25, and an excellent product.
I mostly use it for adding voice narration to music I've extracted from
Audio CDs. I just use a USB microphone, or whatver is handy.
I do it to help music appreciation students understand classical music.
(E.G., They play my narrated CD. They hear the music, plus my voice at
times: "Here's the theme, here's variation 1, variation 2, here's a new
theme, etc. I'm -- what's it called? -- overdubbing -- the voice
narration goes on top of the music, which is not interrupted. Sometimes
they hear it as an MP3, sometimes I just burn an aiff CD-R.)
I also have Peak LE. This does the job just as well, and I think it's
available for Windows, but it's much more expensive, and it does way too
many things I don't need. And it crashes too often.
What are some of the most popular Windows shareware apps that do about
the same thing as Amadeus?
Thanks in advance,
Tim Miller