FTR Disk problem

[hotrod351]

recently had a court case and i received a FTR [for the record] cd,s. problem is i cant find out how to play it on my mac. i even tried it under VMware fusion and couldnt get anywhere/ tried the Alltomp3 but that didnt work either. hate to have to go buy a windows computer just for this one disk.

 

[filmak]

Can you see its contents in Finder?

Also try VLC to open it..

 

[hotrod351]

i can see it in the Finder but i get no option as = open with, only open.

 

[hotrod351]

ok tried VLC, says = No suitable decoder module

 

[agazoo]

Check this out

http://www.firehaus.net/2013/05/17/use-a-mac-need-to-convert-ftr-court-audio/

Seems no easy way for OS X, but should work on VM or Boot camp with free decoder.

 

[filmak]

edited : agazoo gave the solution...

 

[hotrod351]

doesnt work. have already tried it, says unknown format,and when i did actually convert to, at least look like mp3, it wouldnt recognize them.

 

[agazoo]

From what I read it seems there are differences within the FTR standard. I would personally open hex editor and look inside, sometimes it is possible to salvage info, but without sample of a file it is really hard to tell what's going on ...

Call to court or vendor and ask what soft you need to play the thing?

 

[hotrod351]

well i downloaded the For the Record player form there site and installed it on Windows 7 on VMware fusion, got it to work. also see it give me the option to record it into a different format. now i might be able to change it to Mp3.

 

[filmak]

That's good news...

 

[hotrod351]

yeah it is.