Ripping And Archiving Of Audio-Cds - ALCATECH BPM STUDIO 4 PRO User Manual

First Steps
BPM Studio does not only provide the means to
professionally play and mix titles. Also many
functions and perfected modules are available for
copying and archiving audio-CDs. How you can
transfer your existing CD collection to the BPM
Studio system, is explained in the following
section.
Requirements:
Music in the MP3 format occupies about 1 MB of
hard drive space for 1 minute of music. This
means that on a hard drive with 30 GB capacity
approximately 8,000 to 10,000 titles with an
average length of 3.5 minutes can be stored.
The Audio-CDs are read in with the CD-ROM drive
and copied to the hard drive. This procedure is
also called "ripping". The speed of this process
mainly depends on the quality of the drive. But
also the performance of the overall system is
important, for example if copying and encoding
are to be done in one single process.
After the installation of BPM Studio, MP3 files
will be stored in the \DATA folder on drive C by
default. We recommend, when using the program
professionally, to install a second (or even more)
additional hard drive/s, and to move the MP3
folder accordingly to the new hard drive. This can
be done in the Program Options, "storage"
register tab.
Optimally create a \MP3 folder on the new hard
drive, and select this folder as standard for MP3
files. BPM Studio will then store all ripped, and
encoded files in this folder.
A large relief, when adopting title lists on the PC,
is the global CD database on the Internet. There,
the title information of the most known and current
CDs are stored, and can be downloaded for free.
BPM Studio has a built in CDDB inquiry function,
to be started over the
particular CD can not be found in this database,
an alternative CDDB-database can be defined in
the Program Options. Or, the information can be
entered manually in the file properties dialog.
To be able to use the CDDB inquiry you need a
Internet connection either over the dial up network
adapter of Windows, or through a real Internet
connection through a masked network. Standard
Proxy software for Windows only offers HTTP and
FTP services. If you own a UNIX system as
gateway, activate masquerading, and enter the
IP Address of the gateway into the network
settings of Windows. If you use programs like
WinGate, or AVM KEN!, please activate the
SOCKS Proxy in these programs, res. install the
proper client software on the BPM Studio PC
You can get more help from about this topic from
your system administrator, or your local PC store.
We recommend to save all MP3 files in
one folder. The BPM Studio File Archive
and the hard drive directory stand in no
relation to each other. If you move a file
in the BPM Studio File Archive, the
physical location on the hard drive
remains unchanged. This way, it can get
messy very easily, if you store files in
different folders on your hard drive, and
later on rearrange them in the File
Archive.
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