Thanks Brian, I should have been clearer at the outset. I am using
OSX4. I have a principal disc for the OS and all files and
applications (unpartitioned) and a secondary internal disc which is a
dedicated iTunes Music disc. I have manipulating room on the
principal disc but no elbow room at all on the iTunes disc, hence the
need to open the file without putting it into the secondary disc.
The dummies info from Richard sounds like a pain but one I will
happily endure to get the right result (thanks Richard). The "track"
is a continuous recording without many natural breaks which goes on
for an hour and three quarters so I expect I will potentially hit
space problems anyway but it sounds like a solution. In Sound Studio
I would have done much the same using a visual as well as audio guide
and would have probably worked in some fade in and out but this
sounds workable. It just bugs me when things don't work. I would have
shelled out £20 for QTPro at some point anyway (I was one of those
upgraders who did not know they were about to lose Pro status) but I
thought this would have some bearing on why it was not working
yesterday, so I am miffed that it still don't open in QT.
Thanks both.
Drew
On 10 Jul 2005, at 10:59, Brian Steere wrote:
Isnt this related to whether the application needs to load the file
into VM
(on your HD) in order to play or open it?
In any case having so little spare room on your disk will cause other
problems and my guess is that you are not on X as this requires a
lot -
maybe 20% free space for VM and various other System functions to
operate
well.
So my response to your predicament would have been to move things
off of
your HD in order to make room to operate freely. iTunes can burn
mp3 direct
to aiff - but I bet that it converts onto HD in the background as
part of
that process rather than decoding in ram - (I didn't test this
though).
In any case I wish you well with what you are doing. I ended up
getting more
disk space internal and external at points of scarcity of space.
all the best
Brian
Thanks Richard, it did indeed help and I am sorry to admit to missing
this subtle but important option. I have managed to export the music
in a block to 1.3 CDs, direct from the MP3 in iTunes but I am still
cross that I could not import the file into SoundStudio or SparkME.
That would have allowed me to contrive a break in the music to suit
the change over of discs. I persevered for a long time. SS just
opened an Untitled file and then did nothing more and Spark claimed
the file was corrupt, though I put this down to the age of SparkME.
QT7Pro said that it could not open this kind of file. MPlayer plays
it fine and so doe iTunes. Baffling.
Drew
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