Capturing Sound from a Compact Disc
Computers in Communication
Boston University College of Communication
Copyright © 1996 by Professor Jim Lengel
Sound on a CD is already in digital form. You can use MoviePlayer 2.0
to convert sounds from a CD directly into sound-only QuickTime movies.
Put your music compact disc into the drive on your computer. Launch MoviePlayer
2.0. Use Open from the File menu to open one of the tracks on the CD.
Select the track you want to use, then click on the Options button. From
this control panel, you will be able to preview the track you want to record,
and choose the exact piece of the music you want to capture. You can also
set the quality (sampling rate) of the sound from this control panel. The
sound will be saved to your disk as a sound-only QuickTime move, from where
it can be imported into almost any other program.
MoviePlayer 2.0 can turn any sound file into a sound-only QuickTime
movie, which is important especially if you plan later to import it into
ClarisWorks or Persuasion. To do this, launch the MoviePlayer program.
Use the file menu to open the sound file of your choice. MoviePlayer
will ask you to choose a name for your sound-movie. Save this QuickTime
movie into your project folder.