Adaptec Toast Audio Extractor

The Toast Audio Extractor, or TAE, is a simple application which allows you to save tracks from an audio CD as Mac sound files in a variety of formats. It requires a CD-ROM drive that support audio extraction.

Getting Started
Launch TAE by double-clicking its icon in the Finder. After a moment the main window will be displayed. If an audio CD is already mounted, its contents will be shown in the window; if not, insert one to begin.

You can control all of the applications functions from this window.

Track List
The shows the number, title (if available) and length of all the tracks on the CD. The names are taken from the AppleCD Audio Players database. If you have previously named the tracks using the Apple player, those names will be displayed in the Track list.

Naming the Disc and its tracks
To edit the names with TAE, double-click on any item in the track list to display the naming dialog. Enter the desired disc and track name(s) then click OK. You can use the arrows to move to a different track. 

The names will be stored in the Apple CD database and will be available to any applications which use that data (Toast, TAE, and AppleCD Audio Player, among others).

The Track Display
The Track Display area shows a graphic representation of each track on the disc. Initially, each track will be indicated by an open rectangle.

To view the waveform of one or more tracks, simply select them in the Track list or Track display and click the Preview button. The progress window will appear while TAE reads the tracks and builds the waveforms. This may take a while, depending on the length of the tracks and the speed of your CD-ROM drive.

About the Overlap option
TAE attempts to preview and extract audio data at the full speed of your CD-ROM drive. On some drives, this may result in errors that reveal themselves as clicks when you listen to the sound files. If you experience this problem, you should check the Overlap (safer but slower) option in the extraction progress window. When the Overlap option is checked, TAE verifies the data before saving it, to insure accurate extraction.

After reading, the waveforms will be displayed.

NOTE: TAE stores the data for the waveform display in a folder called TAE Waveform Cache  located in the same folder as the Toast Audio Extractor application. If you delete these files, then the waveforms will have to be re-created the next time you use that particular disc.

Operational Controls
This section of the main window contains the main controls. There are buttons for starting the Extraction process, setting sound options, and playing and previewing the selected audio tracks. 

Options...
The Options button brings up this window which lets you specify the desired format for the extracted tracks.

NOTE: If you are extracting tracks for use in Toast or CD-DA, be sure to select either AIFF or SoundDesignerII as the format!

The selected format will be indicated in the lower right corner of the main window too:

Zoom Controls
The Zoom controls affect what you see in the Track Display area.

 Zoom In button will increase the magnification of the selected track(s)

 Zoom Out button will decrease the magnification of the selected track(s)

 Zoom to Selection button will zoom the selected track(s) to the full width of the Track Display area
 This is very useful if you want to select just a portion of a track for extraction.
	
 Show All button will show all the tracks in the Track Display area

Extracting Tracks
To extract tracks from the CD, simply select the desired track or tracks and click the Extract button. TAE will present a standard file naming window; specify the name and location for the extracted files and click the Save button.

As a short-cut, you can simply select any track or tracks in the track list or track display and drag them to the desired location in the Finder. TAE will immediately begin extracting the chosen items to that location.

Copyright Information
Toast Audio Extractor is part of Adaptec Toast. It is not freeware, shareware or public domain. 
Toast Audio Extractor is copyright  1997 by Adaptec Inc. All rights reserved.