Re: copying CD question
Your assistance is much appreciated. Thanks much. If you get to messages, please excuse. I am having difficulty with my email. Frank - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:10 PM Subject: Re: copying CD question Hi Frank. CDEX can only be used to copy CD tracks to your hard drive rather than copying one CD to another. This is known as ripping. Below are some notes on how to use CDEX to rip CD's to your hard drive as either WAV or MP3 tracks. Hope you find them of some use. 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 WAVMP3 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 WAVMP3 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
Re: copying CD question
could you advise me as to the procedure used to copy with cdx frank - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: Re: copying CD question Hi Cindy. If you want to copy the CD completely, you'd do well to get a burning program such as Nero. Even with a single drive, you'll still be able to copy the CD as Nero will read the source CD, reject it when it's finished reading and then ask you to load the blank. If you want to rip a CD to your hard drive and then select some of the tracks to compile a CD then you'd do well to check out CDEX which is a free, easy to use ripper. You could then use a burning program like Nero to burn the resulting compilation. Regards. Kevin - Original Message - From: Cynthia Handel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pc-audio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:21 PM Subject: copying CD question OK, I still have the same problem/question. I only have one CD drive and want to copy a CD onto my computer so I can burn it onto another disk. Since I've already played it and the feature in Real Player and Windows Media Player no longer works (saving to library), how should I do this? Cindy Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find the way. Abraham Lincoln ___ 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]
copying CD question
OK, I still have the same problem/question. I only have one CD drive and want to copy a CD onto my computer so I can burn it onto another disk. Since I've already played it and the feature in Real Player and Windows Media Player no longer works (saving to library), how should I do this? Cindy Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find the way. Abraham Lincoln ___ 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]
Re: copying CD question
I think you are using Nero, so there should be some feature in it to copy the disc to the hard drive so you can burn the track to a disc. get someone to install another drive so you don't have to go all through that. -- Cynthia Handel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I still have the same problem/question. I only have one CD drive and want to copy a CD onto my computer so I can burn it onto another disk. Since I've already played it and the feature in Real Player and Windows Media Player no longer works (saving to library), how should I do this? Cindy Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find the way. Abraham Lincoln ___ 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] The best thing to hit the Internet in years - NetZero HiSpeed! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.netzero.com to sign up today! ___ 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]
Re: copying CD question
I think you can copy the CD to the Clipboard and then paste it into the audio list on your burner program. I am a Nero user, so if you are using a different program, I wouldn't know what they use. Hope this helps a little. Mimi - Original Message - From: Cynthia Handel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pc-audio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:21 AM Subject: copying CD question OK, I still have the same problem/question. I only have one CD drive and want to copy a CD onto my computer so I can burn it onto another disk. Since I've already played it and the feature in Real Player and Windows Media Player no longer works (saving to library), how should I do this? Cindy Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find the way. Abraham Lincoln ___ 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]
