Fission for Mac is amazingly useful!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

From the folks who brought you Audio hijack Pro... Fission 2

I needed to import a bunch of SFX CDs to my HD (about 3 dozen) and searched for a program to batch convert them. There are a couple of freeware apps but nothing that comes close to Fission.

These are consumer level CDs, so if iTunes is open I can get the titles of each track automatically from the CDDB and the Finder reports those titles in the Folder for the CD. From there, I can drag the list to Fission and instruct it to convert the AIFF CD to MP3 while importing them to my HD to the folder I specify.

Of course, I will go into my commercial SFX library next and convert all my SFX tracks (All 180GB of them) from AIFF to MP3 as well. The resulting disk will use 1/7 the space after deleting the AIFFs.

Fission does a whole lot more and is a nice addendum to DP. It does a few other tricks that DP can't do, most of which I don't think I'll need too often (very easy Ringtones, Podcast Chapters, etc) but some of you might find very useful. The batch file conversion alone can save DP users a lot of time waiting for DP to convert a format.

Anyway, I think it's worth the $$$...

http://rogueamoeba.com/fission/

[James Steele]

I'll look at those features. I find it's worth the price of admission to be able to trim or apply fades to MP3s directly without having to go back to the source project or source AIFF file and apply edits and then reconvert.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

If you own Audio Hijack Pro email them. They gave me a $5 discount. For that matter, approach them for a banner sale for MOTUNation, maybe they'll let you have it for free?

[James Steele]

If you own Audio Hijack Pro email them. They gave me a $5 discount. For that matter, approach them for a banner sale for MOTUNation, maybe they'll let you have it for free?

I already am a registered user of both Fission and Audio Hijack Pro. Although I think there's a paid upgrade to Fission that I haven't bothered to do yet. These days, because I'm a Snow Leopard lag-behind, I'm careful of updating as sometimes the updates require Lion or later.

[stubbsonic]

I use Fission all the time. The developer is super-responsive and fixes things quickly.

My main use lately is taking rehearsal recordings and chopping them into shorter segments. It's really good.

With DSP-Quattro, Fission, Audacity and DP, most audio needs are handled quite effectively.