Hi Paul, You can go to http://www.jfwlite.com/programs and grab it from there. Hope this helps man. Be sure to get version 1.50. The most recent version seems ta be quite buggy.
Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hutson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:40 PM Subject: Re: Ripping CD Tracks To MP3's? > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
