Day #11: Sounds
Feb. 12th, 2010 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somethingnewThis is probably only going to be cool to me. But today I figured out how to extract music tracks from an application.
On Day #3 I checked out the program Ommwriter. And I mentioned that one of the things I liked about it was the ocean track that didn't have cranky seagulls in the background.
Well, as it turns out I like that ocean track. A lot. Enough that I've been running Ommwriter even when I wasn't using it, so I could have that background track going. Seemed a little silly to me. Seemed like there had to be a way to get that track out of the program to, say, load on my MP3 player. (I've got a work trip coming up and I've already been warned my roommate talks in her sleep.)
Problem was, it wasn't like I could just open the application folder to get it. As mentioned previously, I'm a Mac user. And when an application comes as a .app, it's all packaged together. No getting into the folder.
Unless you know the special hack. Which I didn't, not until I started trying to figure this out. Control-clicking (the equivalent of right-clicking) will bring up a menu with the option of opening the packages. As luck would have it, it worked. I had to do a little searching once the package was open, but I totally found my ocean sound and imported it to my MP3 player.
On Day #3 I checked out the program Ommwriter. And I mentioned that one of the things I liked about it was the ocean track that didn't have cranky seagulls in the background.
Well, as it turns out I like that ocean track. A lot. Enough that I've been running Ommwriter even when I wasn't using it, so I could have that background track going. Seemed a little silly to me. Seemed like there had to be a way to get that track out of the program to, say, load on my MP3 player. (I've got a work trip coming up and I've already been warned my roommate talks in her sleep.)
Problem was, it wasn't like I could just open the application folder to get it. As mentioned previously, I'm a Mac user. And when an application comes as a .app, it's all packaged together. No getting into the folder.
Unless you know the special hack. Which I didn't, not until I started trying to figure this out. Control-clicking (the equivalent of right-clicking) will bring up a menu with the option of opening the packages. As luck would have it, it worked. I had to do a little searching once the package was open, but I totally found my ocean sound and imported it to my MP3 player.
