Audio extraction - I'm lost

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Audio extraction - I'm lost

I'm a long-term Mac user. I'm also a composer and I need to be able to extract audio files from backups of previous works. They are currently proprietary archive files (.CFS) originally backed up from a Yamaha AW4416. I would like them as .wav files.

There doesn't seem to be a Mac app out there that will do this but there is this https://github.com/sillymonkeysoftware/AWare-Audio/blob/master/README.md which apparently will work on the Mac if I install ActiveTcl. I have done that (and downlaoded AWare) but I'm at a loss as what to do next even after several reads of the advice doc. I just don't know Tcl/Tk.

If there is anyone out there who knows what this is all about and can get me out of this fix I would be very grateful.

Thank you : )

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 32GB RAM, G-RAiD Studio 6TB etc.

Posted on Feb 4, 2016 6:28 AM

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JimmyCMPIT

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Feb 4, 2016 7:16 AM in response to insch

I've never used it but I think this is the link to what you are being asked to install.

As to it's integrity I would not be able to give you an honest answer but if I'm following the same google results you are it's here.

Apparenty TCL/TK only needs to be present

open terminal and type

$> cd <location where zip was extracted>/src
$> tclsh ./aware.tcl

another possibility is to run wine to allow you to use something like this

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/AWExtract/

either way there is not a lot of info on this CFS music file. I would have recommended audacity but it does not appear to work with those files.

Is it possible to get the HW that can read these files but those units dont come cheap from what I can tell,

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insch Author

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Feb 4, 2016 7:25 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

Thanks Jimmy

Yes, I installed TCL/TK through that link but got a bit lost with the instructions for the Terminal:

$> cd <location where zip was extracted>/src

I'm not sure what to put for <location where zip was extracted>

Is this the AWare-Audio zip extraction or the ActiveTcl one? If its the latter its in my Applications folder at the top level of hard drive. Either way, I'm not sure how the directory location should be input into the Terminal.

Thanks

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JimmyCMPIT

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Feb 4, 2016 7:53 AM in response to insch

if you extracted a folder or file from the zip go to the location of that folder or file

open terminal

type

cd (and type a space from the space bar)

drag and drop that unzipped folder or file into the terminal window

type

/src

press return

type

tclsh ./aware.tcl

press return

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insch Author

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Feb 4, 2016 7:58 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

ps I tried this in Terminal but it didn't work:

Phils-Mac-Pro:~ phil$ $> cd </Applications/AWare-Audio-master>/src

-bash: /src: Permission denied

Phils-Mac-Pro:~ phil$

Phils-Mac-Pro:~ phil$ $> tclsh ./aware.tcl

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insch Author

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Feb 4, 2016 7:59 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

Our posts overlapped - I'll now try what you've outlined.

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insch Author

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Feb 4, 2016 8:01 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

Your method gives me:

Phils-Mac-Pro:~ phil$ cd /Users/phil/Downloads/AWare-Audio-master.zip src

-bash: cd: /Users/phil/Downloads/AWare-Audio-master.zip: Not a directory

Phils-Mac-Pro:~ phil$ tclsh ./aware.tcl

couldn't read file "./aware.tcl": no such file or directory

Phils-Mac-Pro:~ phil$

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insch Author

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Feb 4, 2016 8:08 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

I realised that I missed the / before src in that last attempt but did it again correctly and still no luck:

Phils-Mac-Pro:AWare-Audio-master phil$ cd /Users/phil/Downloads/AWare-Audio-master.zip /src

-bash: cd: /Users/phil/Downloads/AWare-Audio-master.zip: Not a directory

Phils-Mac-Pro:AWare-Audio-master phil$ tclsh ./aware.tcl

couldn't read file "./aware.tcl": no such file or directory

Phils-Mac-Pro:AWare-Audio-master phil$

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JimmyCMPIT

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Feb 4, 2016 10:22 AM in response to insch

unzip the file and a file or folder will appear in the same folder your zip is in

Run that file or folder through the terminal. Don't drag the zip fie into the terminal, the zip is a container for the file, not the file itself.

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insch Author

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Feb 4, 2016 10:39 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

Thanks Jimmy

I have tried this a few times but get this:

Phils-Mac-Pro:AWare-Audio-master phil$ cd /Users/phil/Downloads/AWare-Audio-master /src

Phils-Mac-Pro:AWare-Audio-master phil$ tclsh ./aware.tcl

couldn't read file "./aware.tcl": no such file or directory

Phils-Mac-Pro:AWare-Audio-master phil$

Should I be pointing to the aware.tcl file rather than the AWare-Audio-master folder? Should the whole path be within < >?

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insch Author

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Feb 4, 2016 11:12 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

Got it! I dragged the 'src' folder from within the unzipped AWare-Audio-master folder to Terminal, finished the script and then it ran. Thanks for your help Jimmy

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