Audacity Forum

I recorded an album and went back to add song titles. When I converted to aac and imported into I Tunes all I got was one long song not broken into individual songs. What did I do wrong, no problem with earlier Audacity?

Mac OS 10.6.2
Audacity 1.3.10

1.3.10 has a problem with export multiple - it round the songs up to the nearest 5 seconds. Try the latest nightly build of 1.3.11 to get around that.

http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=mac%2F

Scroll to the bottom of the list, then click on the last entry to get to the link for the .dmg.

As for one long track and not dividing into songs, that is strange. Your message implies that you have done this successfully before?

Have you looked at this http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... o_CD#split

Audacity is not the best program for making AAC files. I usually export to AIF (complete with metadata), import them into iTunes, let iTunes convert to AAC, then trash the imported AIFs from iTunes. I have iTunes set to copy files into the library, so your original AIFs are not touched. Sounds complicated, but it's faster.

-- Bill

I normally use AIF and let Itunes do it also.

billw58 wrote: I usually export to AIF (complete with metadata), import them into iTunes, let iTunes convert to AAC, then trash the imported AIFs from iTunes. I have iTunes set to copy files into the library, so your original AIFs are not touched. Sounds complicated, but it's faster.
-- Bill

Bill,

I have been exporting at 16-bit WAV and then letting iTunes convert to AAC (similarly trashing the imported WAV files).

Would I be better using AIF export from Audacity, rather than WAVs, to feed the AAC conversion?

WC.

WC:
I use AIF mostly from habit being a Mac guy. But I understand that AIF has better support for metadata, and that has been my experience. When doing export multiple for an LP I open the metadata editor and set the common fields (Artist Name, Album Title), then let Audacity fill in Track Title and Track number. iTunes picks these up, possibly saving me a bit of time.

-- Bill

Bill,

Ah, I see - but am I right in assuming that there is theoretically no difference in audio quality between AIF and WAV?

And further does iTunes handle them both equally in terms of Audio quality?

Thanks,
WC

waxcylinder wrote: Ah, I see - but am I right in assuming that there is theoretically no difference in audio quality between AIF and WAV?
And further does iTunes handle them both equally in terms of Audio quality?

AFAIK, yes.

-- Bill

I don't know what I am doing wrong. I went back and loaded the previous version of Audacity and I get the same thing.
1. Recorded.
2. Added song name.
3. exported an AIFF File to desktop.
3. Added to ITune Library.
The whole file appears no labels or separation. I have done this before with no problem what have I forgot to do???????

You need to be using Export Multiple and not just the simple Export.

See: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... ate_tracks

WC

Ok, I exported multiples and ended up with multiple AIFF files. How do you consolidate and put in ITunes all at one time? I know I've done this before, just can't remember how.