I inherited a computer that has QuicPix 2.0v from Media Touch (iMediaTouch) on it. I'm interested in converting the songs to another format such as wav, mp2 or mp3 so I can use them in other automation systems. Anyone know what format they are in? My guess is some proprietary QDesign/OMT format. How would I convert them to one of the other formats. Thanks.
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iMediatouch uses a transcoder. That is, once you import a wav, that file is transcoded to a proprietary PCM format. To export for other automation systems, you use the production software. Right click on the file and choose export. You then choose the format (wav, mp2, etc) and export.
Blows my mind why every automation system doesn't just use the standard files and header placement.
That is the whole reason I just had to deal with so much crap with that station run Crapstro, I mean Maestro.
Just write all your stuff in the Standard Cart Chunk Header and leave the file alone.
That is the whole reason I just had to deal with so much crap with that station run Crapstro, I mean Maestro.
Just write all your stuff in the Standard Cart Chunk Header and leave the file alone.
I don't know about QuicPix, but on iMediaTouch version 2.x, the MTS files on our system are really regular MP2 files with standard tags that have the extension changed. Production is set up on our system for a MPEG layer 2 256K library (from before storage was cheap).
I have opened the files in Cool Edit just by changing the extension to MP2 and telling Cool Edit to "Extract Audio From Video" (C.E.P. and Audition don't handle MP2's natively for some odd reason). Other players that can handle MP2 files play them fine after changing the extension.
If this is a hand-me-down, the trick is to find out what format the files were originally imported as.
I have opened the files in Cool Edit just by changing the extension to MP2 and telling Cool Edit to "Extract Audio From Video" (C.E.P. and Audition don't handle MP2's natively for some odd reason). Other players that can handle MP2 files play them fine after changing the extension.
If this is a hand-me-down, the trick is to find out what format the files were originally imported as.
chriscollins said:Blows my mind why every automation system doesn't just use the standard files and header placement.
I agree. Then again, headers tend to be a very fluid concept with varying third party compliance.
I've written a few audio applications that have to read/write tags and headers, and you have to really over engineer everything because tag order, placement (head or tail), and even structure, can vary wildly from the original standards.
The CART chunk is part of the RIFF WAV header structure which is supposed to be able to handle most formats. Unfortunately outside of radio, RIFF WAV files are seldom used for anything except linear PCM.
I've often thought a system would be most flexible if it could use any standard file/header format in use, and kept the file metadata in a matching data file in the same directory (i.e. File001.flac and File001.dat). Obviously that metadata is also in the systems central database as the primary source. Copy the audio file and metadata file to another system and it would immediately recognize it and pull it in. I think Prophet does it this way, or is it Enco - can't remember.
Prophet gives you a .wav & a .dat when you export a file.
BSI's Simian stores the metadata in the header of the mp3 or .wav file.
I also have 2.0 of quicpix inherited on an old P2 300 mhz PC and have successfully changed the file extension to .mp2 and have played them in winamp. usually you can convert them to anything from there.
I personally am not a fan of the mp2 encoder in this version of Quicpix, the quality is too poor, but fortunately, I can convert to mp3 at 320 and import it into Quicpix and works fine.
I personally am not a fan of the mp2 encoder in this version of Quicpix, the quality is too poor, but fortunately, I can convert to mp3 at 320 and import it into Quicpix and works fine.
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