We need to convert a wave to an .mp3. Both computers have been upgraded since we did so last and it turns out quick time pro didn’t make the cut.
Go find quick time 10 on the snow leopard doesn’t export. Quicktime 7 is on the disk at the office. Download quicktime 7 and it complains it can’t possibly install with Quicktime 10 on the system. Pull out hair.
Go to windows laptop and find email with the Pro registration. Register. Pull file in. Save As. You can only save it as a movie? Pick Export…nope, you can still only export it as a movie. WTF?
Back to the mac, go download Audacity. Export to mp…no, you have to go find LAME to do that. Go find and install LAME…export to mp3.
Sometimes these computers do amazing things. quickly. Other times? It’s like the 3rd ring of hell, I tell ya.
In what spectacular fashion has technology failed you recently?
for me it would be the new MS office suit rant. I spent 3 hrs trying to do 30 minutes of work because they changed everything around. There were a lot of tools in Excel that I was able to use but didn’t actually know the correct name for so I’ve been pulling my hair out learning how to walk again. I’ve had to run both versions at the same time so I had a reference to look up. It’s like waking up and finding out my native language changed and all the street signs are in hieroglyphics. Is this a one way street or is the god Osiris mad at me?
I was so hoping the OP was going to be bitching about printers, thereby making a hilarious username/post combo. I guess it’s not a spectacular failure, but an internet messaging board has let me down once agian.
Once, a long long time ago, it was smart to buy a business class laser printer. The toner didn’t dry out like ink jets, and the machines were designed to poop out 15,000 pages a month. Printing 4000 pages in 5 years was a walk in the park for them.
So I decided what I really needed was a business class COLOR laser printer. And I found one in a dark, musty, corner of a Comp USA in the scratch n dent corner. Negotiated a helluva deal. I got the printer (originally $1800), and three new toner cartridges, for $550. Took it home, set it up and it ran GREAT. For a year and a half.
Then it needed a Cyan toner cartridge ($100)…the next month it needed magenta, and the Yellow one was about a week behind it. My finances had changed and I couldn’t afford $300 in toner in two months.
Turns out that, about once a day, it felt the need to ‘calibrate’…which used up the toner. Meaning something that should have cost me $0.03 a page, probably cost me closer to $0.25 a page.
And it won’t print B&W if any of the color toner carts are empty. So it’s holding me ransom for $200 in toner. WTF?
So I did the research and bought a Canon printer. Bought it specifically because it got good reviews and was mac compatible. And it works great. Except.
It won’t print from a mac if it’s shared on the network plugged into a windows printer.
So if I need a printout, I have to wander over to it and plug in.
(Yeah, I know, get off my ass and burn a calorie walking over to it.) But it took a good two weeks of futzing to get to this point. Want to print from a PC? no problem, share it up and you’re good to go. Want to print from a Mac? One that happily prints from any networked printer at the office? You’re outta luck.
Still the printer is a canner and fax and duplexes…and was cheaper than the remaining two color toner carts of the printer it replaced…and toner is $30.
Sneakernet is alive and well in the Blank household.
Just load it in iTunes. I don’t see a “convert to MP3” option on this older Windows version (although I do see “convert to AAC”), but I’m pretty sure it’s on the Mac version.
Either way, you could write it out as an MP3 CD, which converts .WAV, .AAC, and other formats to nice, standard MP3.
We tried the rightclick in iTunes…I left out the stuff that would be obvious to the most casual observer.
The thrust of the statement is: You can move 14 million polygons, 24 frames a second, with fog and mapping and whatnot, but I can’t put these words on a page. Not only can’t I put these words on a page, but I’ve been doing the ‘obvious’ solution thing for three hours now and I’m not done yet.
QuickTime 7 can be installed on your Snow Leopard system, and may be preinstalled in /Applications/Utilities. You can install it from the Snow Leopard install disc by running the Optional Installs.pkg package if not. Then, use your pro key.
In iTunes, to make an MP3, you have to change the default importer from AAC to MP3 in the preferences. Then use the “Convert Selection To…” option.
Yes. I know. It wasn’t pre-installed (I performed a clean install) the media was at the office, and the Version that’s available for download from Apple isn’t compatible with Snow Leopard.
The thread wasn’t ‘there’s X ways to skin this cat’. The thread is ‘There’s X ways to skin this cat, I’m 18 steps in and the cat still isn’t skinned due to every attempt failing in weird and subtle ways.’
FWIW, for a lot of (especially media-) file conversion tasks, there’s a little freeware tool whose name follows an ‘X2Y’-scheme, which usually will get the job done. Here’s wav2mp3 – comes with LAME!
