Rip An Audio Cd To Wma Files - MicroBoards Technology DX-2 User Manual

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Rip an Audio CD to WMA Files

The Rip Audio function will work with CD's placed into a drive inside your computer. The recorders
inside the DX-2 Disc Publisher system are not used for this function.
When you have an Audio CD from which you want to extract one or more tracks as audio files into
your hard drive:
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Highlight the internal drive in your computer and double-click on the Rip Audio icon. The Rip
window opens; it shows the audio tracks when an Audio CD (or a CD Extra) is inserted in the
drive and is ready.
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Select the tracks by placing a check in the checkbox in front of the listed tracks you want to
rip. You can play the tracks with the Track Player by double clicking the track or by selecting
the menu View > Track Player. The track player lets you skip from one track to the other,
check the track from its own small window, and move quickly within the tracks if you need to
recognize a certain piece of music.
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When all the tracks to rip are selected you need to choose the target folder where the file will
be created. By default this is set to the "My Music" folder.
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By default, the file names will be composed of the Album Title and each track Artist and Title.
If the disc has CD Text information, these values are automatically loaded from the disc. You
can edit them by highlighting a track and selecting the menu Edit > Artist... and Edit >
Title... (you can also double click on the track in the appropriate column position). The Artist
and Title information are also inserted in the ripped track into the appropriate fields, so you
will see them displayed regardless of the filename while you are playing those files with the
Media Player.
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After editing the titles, they can be saved in a text file using the menu File > Save Artist and
Title to Text File... so you can eventually reload them later via File > Load Artist and Title
from Text File...
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Select the menu Edit > Filename Format to pick among different filename composition
schemes. The composition is pre-shown in the field Target File, so you can preview exactly
how the filename will be created.
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Select the Codec and its Format among the choices available, which depend on which codec
you have currently installed in the system.
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