THANKS very much Kevin. Just one more question, where can I get C D E X, that is, the U R L? Take care and thanks again. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:23 PM Subject: Re: Ripping CD Tracks To MP3's?
> Hi Paul. > > CDEX is a free program that is really easy to use with screen readers. > > I've pasted some notes below on how to use CDEX to rip tracks to your hard > drive. > > Using CDEX to rip CD tracks to your hard drive > > 1. Place your CD into any of your CD-ROM drives. Hold down the shift key > when the CD drawer is being closed to prevent the CD starting to play. > 2. Close any running applications. This will ensure that when ripping is > started CDEX is not competing for resources and therefore produces the best > quality output. > 3. Start CDEX from the desktop or programs menu. > 4. Your screen reader will start to announce the track listing of the CD as > "Audio Track 1, Audio Track 2", etc. > 5. CDEX can get the artist, album title and track titles from the CDDB by > connecting to the internet but you will first need to make the following > changes: > a. Press F4 to open the Settings dialogue > b. Press shift tab and then right arrow until you reach the Remote CDDB tab > c. Press tab until you reach a control requesting you to enter your e-mail > address > d. Key in your e-mail address and then tab to OK > e. If you'd like CDEX to get CD information automatically each time you > start CDEX, then check the auto connect checkbox. > f. Press enter on the OK button to confirm your changes > 6. To retrieve artist name, album title and track titles from the CDDB, do > the following: > a. Press alt + D to enter the CDDB menu > b. Press down arrow until you reach "Read remote CDDB" > c. Press enter and CDEX will query the CDDB and pull back the artist name, > album title and track titles > d. If you'd like to store this information so that you don't need to > retrieve from the CDDB again for this CD, press alt + D to enter the CDDB > menu and then arrow down until you reach "save to local CDDB". Pressing > enter at this point will save the CD information on your computer. > 7. CDEX can normalise the volume of all tracks being ripped. This will > result in your tracks being set to the same volume even if they are taken > from CD's where the volumes vary considerably. To make CDEX normalise the > volume of ripped tracks, make the following changes: > a. Press F4 to enter the Settings dialogue > b. You will probably be placed on the encoder tab but if not, press shift > and tab and then use the right and left arrow keys until you reach the > encoder tab > c. Press tab until you reach the control for "on-the-fly MP3 encoding" and > press the spacebar to uncheck this > d. Press tab until you reach the encoder tab again and use the left arrow > key until you reach the general tab > e. Press tab until you reach the control "normalise volume" and press the > spacebar to check this > f. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm your changes > 8. To rip all of the tracks to WAV format, press F8. > 9. To rip all of the tracks to MP3 format, press F9. > 10. If you don't want all tracks to be ripped from the CD, use the up and > down arrow keys in the list of track titles until you reach the track you > want before pressing F8 or F9. If you want to select a number of tracks, > you can do this using the standard windows keystrokes of shift with the up > or down arrow to select contiguous tracks and control with the up and down > arrow keys to unselect tracks. > 11. You can change the default folder where CDEX will output your ripped > tracks by making the following changes: > a. Press F4 to enter the settings dialogue > b. Press shift and tab and then left arrow until you reach the filenames tab > c. Press tab until you reach the WAV>MP3 control > d. Route the JAWS cursor to the PC cursor using the insert + JAWS cursor > keystroke > e. Use the keystroke insert + left arrow to locate the button to the right > of the WAV>MP3 control > f. Press the left mouse button on the numpad to activate this button > g. Select the folder where you'd like CDEX to place your ripped tracks and > open the folder by pressing the right arrow key > h. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm the choice of > output folder > i. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm your changes > 12. You can change the format of the track names and the folders that CDEX > will create when ripping by making the following changes: > a. Press F4 to enter the settings dialogue > b. Press shift and tab and then left arrow until you reach the filenames tab > c. Tab once to the output file format and directories edit field. If you > are confident with the naming conventions, you can edit your preferences > directly into this field. Otherwise, tab once more and press the output > file format and directories button. Use your JAWS or screen review cursor > to read the options available. In brief, the main options of interest are: > %1 Artist information > %2 Album information > %3 Track number > %4 Track name > %5 CD Volume ID > %6 CDDB ID > %7 Track number with leading zero > The \ character will create a subfolder. For example, if placed between %1 > and %2, the CD album titles will be output in a subfolder under the artist > name. > d. Tab to the ok button and press enter to confirm the new settings. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Hutson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 7:54 PM > Subject: Ripping CD Tracks To MP3's? > > > > Hi all. > > > > I know this has been discussed on the list so if someone would please > write > > me off-list I would appreciate or if someone could direct me in the > archives > > I would like that too. > > I would like to know if there is some way that I can do as I stated in my > > subject line without spending the BIG bucks to buy a program? Also, since > I > > am VERY new to this audio stuff if I could get some info on the simplist > way > > to do this? > > T I A, > > Paul > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
