Best Mac software to insert PQ/ISRC codes?

[Resonater]

Well, it's 2009. What Mac software is everyone using for inserting PQ and ISRC codes?

Thanks in advance for all suggestions...

[Thor]

PMCD

Sonic Studio :: Digital Audio Mastering and Authoring Tools for PCM, DSD&SACD

Thor

[Synthnerd]

are there cheaper alternatives for mac?

[Waltz Mastering]

Something stable and inexpensive for the mac that will do PQ and ISRC is Jam/Toast by Roxio.

You can also do crossfades, cd text, and print red book compliant CDR.

[hobson]

I thought Peak Pro for Mac did most cd authoring codes (PQ and ISRC)?

[pmx]

i find PMCD without any ddp options to be quite cheap, 300 usd or so...

[silverking]

Wave Editor from AudioFile Engineering @ $75.00
(that also includes DDP and DDP loadback).

[feck]

Toast does it - doesn't get much cheaper than that.

[silverking]

LOL, Toast Titanium is $95.00 and Wave Editor is $79.00........so it gets a little cheaper!

[greyskull]

toast or wave burner

[Adebar]

I used to take Jam/Toast and switched to PreMaster CD. Since then my whole workflow is faster. A lot of adjustments, editing and fades i made in PT LE before I now do in PMCD.

I would never do serious crossfades in Toast. In PMCD I´m faster with it and the fades are a lot easier to adust.

But PMCD is a real mastering tool where you often think it sounds better than other DAWs. Toast ist just a tool to burn CDs - audio CDs also. Comparing these two is like comparing apples and oranges.

[Jerry Tubb]

Originally Posted by Adebar

But PMCD is a real mastering tool where you often think it sounds better than other DAWs. Toast ist just a tool to burn CDs - audio CDs also. Comparing these two is like comparing apples and oranges.

thumbsup +1

PMCD & soundBlade here.

JT

[streaky]

Don't bother with PMCD always crashes...never remembers a project, so you have to do it all again.
Which is well handy / pro! if you've just spent 2 hours editing with a client sitting next to you.

Sonic PMCD is Rubbish!!!!

Buy Sadie if you use a PC and cry if you use a Mac...

[pmx]

never ever had a crash w/ pmcd

[cory-bias]

Originally Posted by hobson

I thought Peak Pro for Mac did most cd authoring codes (PQ and ISRC)?

It does indeed. You can get away with the LE version but Peak Pro 6 is a better solution.

I work for BIAS.

Thanks!

Cory

I hope I am not going against etiquette

[Adebar]

Originally Posted by streaky

Don't bother with PMCD always crashes...never remembers a project, so you have to do it all again.
Which is well handy / pro! if you've just spent 2 hours editing with a client sitting next to you.

Sonic PMCD is Rubbish!!!!

Buy Sadie if you use a PC and cry if you use a Mac...

Hmm. No crashes here with PMCD for more than a year. Working on MacBookPro with 10.4.11

[Lagerfeldt]

Originally Posted by pmx

never ever had a crash w/ pmcd

Haha, really? Quite unstable here.

[pmx]

very true, on a leopard 2core macpro. i must add though, that i always quit and restart the program after assembly and then do the burn/ddp creation. had some troubles in the past not doing so, and the extra few minutes it takes give my a compulsory break

[jdg]

sB/PMCD are bipolar girl/boy friends
good days and bad days

[Thor]

How weird,

it's very stable here. Editing and delivering all day long without any problems (mostly in sB, but it's the same thing, just missing the added features).

Thor

Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt

Haha, really? Quite unstable here.

[fermusic]

Originally Posted by Resonater

Well, it's 2009. What Mac software is everyone using for inserting PQ and ISRC codes?

Thanks in advance for all suggestions...

I use waveburner.. it is inside Logic Studio... no additional fees required

Waveburner is the best Mac software for mastering audio cd with orange book/red book spec fully supported... the sound quality is also related with hardware cd recorder quality and of course final destination support quality (RIAA pre enphasis is also supported for old CD player)

[Thor]

Excuse me,

but what does this mean?

Originally Posted by fermusic

the sound quality is also related with hardware cd recorder quality and of course final destination support quality (RIAA pre enphasis is also supported for old CD player)

Are you saying that the CD recorder is what determines the sound quality of the final master created in WaveBurnerPro?

Don't you think that the app itself, and how it handles the audio internally might have something to do with the sound?

Just curious....

Thor

[markmark]

+1 pmcd on a mac very unstable
to the point where I've had to go back to jam
not only has it been constant crashes, but it has introduced pops into the audio several times
this was over a period of 6 months before i threw in the towel

[Adebar]

Can you tell which version of PMCD you used on which Mac and OS?

I used Jam for 4 years until 2007. Then I switched to PMCD and never looked back using the first Intel MacBook Pro and OS 10.4. (now 10.4.11) in conjunction with a Sonic Studio Model302 interface

[Jerry Tubb]

Originally Posted by markmark

+1 pmcd on a mac very unstable

Originally Posted by Adebar

Can you tell which version of PMCD you used on which Mac and OS?

Good call, apparently problems with Sonic is entirely OS / CPU / version / configuration dependent.

PMCD 3.01 works great here at home on my MacBook (Intel) with OSX 10.5.7.

Interested to see what v3.1 will bring... wish they'd go ahead and release it.

JT