Ways To Protect Your Finished Release?

Audio Watermarking ?

I looked at the link, its actually very interesting. That is a really good find… I’m not sure if it is something I’ll use, but it is a really useful tool.

For creating a CD master on OSX, your options are:

Wave Editor (Audiofile Engineering) - This is what I use. The price is right, and I like their unconventional Photoshop-style “layers” approach to non-destructive audio editing. In addition to doing a proper Red Book CD, this will do PQ sheets, DDP files…all the little extras you need if you’re sending your disc directly to the manufacturing plant instead of using a mastering engineer.

Waveburner (only available as part of Logic Studio) - Very basic, but arguably the most intuitive interface for disc sequencing, assembly, and burning. NOT a full-blown audio editor, which many of these other options are. But hey, if you own Logic, you already have it for free.

Peak (BIAS) - Very capable audio editor. The latest version copped a lot of the easy-disc-assembly usability from Waveburner, so it’s quite nice now.

Sonic Studio soundBlade - Hella expensive, but is the king of them all. If you’run a mastering studio, this is probably what you use.

Sonic Studio PMCD - The light version of Soundblade

Some of these options may also exist in Windows, but I have zero experience there so I’ll let others chime in. For OSX, I recommend Waveburner if you already own it, otherwise try Wave Editor. Switch to Peak if you don’t like Wave Editor’s way of doing things.

Maybe a little (or so) off-topic here, but…

I strongly recommend reading THE MANUAL :)

An absolute classic. Somehow manages to be tongue-in-cheek and dead serious all at the same time. Vive le KLF!

I agree so much that I time travelled and posted the same URL in reply #8

Forgive me… but that thing is massive… seriously… You need to set aside time in the day to read something like that lol! Were there any key points you thought were ON-topic contained in there?