Hi. I use Wavelab extensively to convert all the audio formats I get (MP3, 8bit WAV, aiff, ect) and to burn CD's. What program will let me do this on a mac?

Thanks

Will BIAS Peak LE 5.2 work?

I'm not sure but I think Peak LE is limited to 16-bit files.
At least it was in OS9.

The full version will work work though.

Thanks. The new Peak LE 5.2 is advertised as suppurting 96k/24bit. I guess it will work.

elpezpr,

If you use Wavelab extensively as I used to.... then Peak "LE" will not do the job. Peak Pro, or what ever the name of the full version of Peak is what you're looking for. To be honest it processes audio much faster than Wavelab did, tho I do favor Wavelab.... Peak Pro is definitely it's competitor on mac. The audio montage mode in WL is clearly a viable option in Peak, but I think Wavelab is more in depth as far as Redbook CD authoring is concerned. Plus Peak's obvious audio editing and optional mastering plugin suite. Bias is always throwing out great deals on their email list to upgrade. If it was me, I'd go with Peak.

I hope that helped.

Hi. Do you think I should go with the Pro version even if I'm only using it to convert audio? I did not use any of the other features in Wavelab other than CD labels. Thanks

Hi. Does Peak LE have batch process?

Thanks

http://audiofile-engineering.com/sample_manager.php for batch conversion

- also check out their app: Wave Editor.

You may be able to do much of what you want to do for free with iTunes, QuickTime, Audacity, SoundHack, etc.

Check out the freeware at http://www.dontcrack.com

Hi. Thanks for the links. I will check them out. Does anyone know the answer to my question? For the MP3 and Wav, itunes will work but for 8bit wav files it wont. I want a program that will let me convert a lot of formats and be able to do a batch process.

Thanks

I think Sample Manager will (link above) and AudioEase Barbabatch. Also, look at the Audiofile Engineering crossgrade page for a list of competing batchers...

Bias Peak has crashed and been UNUSABLE on every mac that I've ever had. If you can find Spark, that was good.

If your on a new mac, then Audacity has proven itself to be able to convert MP3's pretty well for me. Waveburner is the best thing for CD burning and putting "montage" style cd's together (but you have to have logic pro for that).

Bottom line: There really isn't a good solution for the mac like Wavelab. So keep a PC around like I do.

you beat me to it... wavelab is a pretty useful software...

anyone knows why there is no mac version of wavelab?

I did a little investigation (asked local dealer ) the guy told me wavelab is one man program and the guy hates mac's, thats it.

About Wave Editor - I got the demo to see if it will manage to satisfy my needs of redbook mastering. It seems almost ok (although moving clips around if you need to change gaps between tracks is a pain - hard to move clips+cannot attach markers to clips resulting in moving all markers over and over again).
but main question is where you insert album name for CD TXT? Also is there functions like
wavelab's "audio in pauses" and "check"(to check if all is redbook compatible before burning)

thanks!

You want Barbabatch, from Audioease (the same people who make Altiverb).

It is a batch converter, pretty much converts everything to everything. It also has some processing, like brick wall limiting, etc., which will will help the quality of 8 bit files a lot.

I have used it since it came out (what, 9 or 10 years?). It also has very high quality SRC.

It is not an editor, nor will it do redbook work or burn a CD. But if you have Barbabatch and something like Peak, you'll have it covered.

Waveburner Pro ... thumbsup

Peak Pro 6! Very stable, Batch Processing, amazing file support (mp3, mp2, FLAC, wav, aiff, sd2, etc., etc.)

There is nothing of comparable quality to WaveLab for the Mac OS.

Just keep on using WaveLab on Mac, it's a great program use bootcamp to run it.

...just for conversion
Sound Converter is an amazing simple & cheap conversion tool. You can demo it:
steve dekorte - projects - shareware - soundconverter

-fizzler

This may also do what you need and it's pretty cheap:

Iced Audio :: Home Page


Audiofinder allows you to do conversions from one format to another.