[G4] Why I love my Mac

[rich northouse]

Kevin,

Congrats on a job well done!!  It is always fun to be on top of the 
mountain -- even if the time is short!!

Good job,

rich

On Oct 28, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:

> 	This is a story about a small situation I was able to solve thanks to 
> my Mac (Gigabit G4/400 Sonnet 1 Ghz upgrade).   I am probably the 
> least advanced user on these lists, but I seemed like a freakin' 
> genius in my house full of PC users.
>
> 	My step son has a band and just finished recording his third album.  
> I ripped the master CD with iTunes in order to make copies for them to 
> sell.  I have a smart playlist with all of their songs in it.  My wife 
> wanted a CD with all three albums on it.  The only problem was that 
> the total playing time of all three combined was about 86 minutes.  6 
> minutes too long for a CD-R.  I noticed that the last track on their 
> last album was about 15 minutes long.  It turns out that it was a 
> three minute song with about a 9 minute pause and a three minute 
> "hidden track".  So, the challenge was to figure out a way to split 
> the one track into the two songs and get rid of the dead air.
>
> 	The first thing I did was make a copy of the song in case I messed 
> up.  After that, I opened iMovie and clicked on the audio tab.  That 
> brought up a list of my iTunes library.  I located the track and 
> dragged it to the clip section.  I found a view option that showed the 
> sound waves from the song.  That allowed me to "see" the first song, 
> the dead air, and the second song.  I clipped and highlighted from 
> right after the first song all the way to the end of the track and cut 
> that section out.  I saved the file as a .mov file to my desktop.  I 
> didn't see any other save options in iMovie to choose from.  I 
> repeated the process but eliminated the first song and the dead air 
> leaving just the second song.  I saved that file to my desktop as 
> well.
>
> 	After managing to separate the 2 songs, I opened Toast and selected 
> "Music" CD.  I dragged the 2 files in to Toast which converted them to 
> music files.  I then burned the 2 songs to a CD.  Finally, I imported 
> the 2 songs from the CD into my iTunes folder.  Now I have all three 
> albums ready to burn to CD.  I'm sure this all old hat to most of you, 
> but it was pretty cool for me to strut around the house for a day 
> "King of the Digital World".
>
> 	I just wanted to share the experience with ya'll.  Thanks for reading 
> this.
>
> 	
> Thanks--
>
> Kevin
>
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