ALCATECH BPM STUDIO 4 PRO User Manual page 96

Ripping Audio-CDs:
1.) Switch to the CD-Player of BPM Studio by
clicking the
into the CD-ROM drive. After a couple of seconds,
all titles on the CD should appear in the players
Play List. Since BPM Studio doesn't know this
CD yet, all titles will be displayed as TRACK –
followed by their title number.
2.) Now click on the
Provided Windows has a Internet connection set
up, the PC will log on to the Internet, connects to
the CDDB (central disc data base for audio-CDs)
and try's to retrieve the information for the CD in
the drive.
3.) After successful CDDB query all titles of the
CD will be listed.
If no information was provided in the CDDB for
this particular CD, at this point enter them
manually, in the file properties dialog. Now mark
the titles to be read in with the according checkbox
to their left in the list, and click on
All marked titles will now be read in. The progress
will be displayed in a status window.
button. Insert a audio-CD
button.
After successful encoding all files will
automatically listed in the File Archive's "NEW
FILES" category. For clearer appearance a
subfolder with the current date will be created.
(See also screen shot at end of page)
In the chapter CD Player you can read up more
functions available for convenient audio-CD read
in BPM Studio. You can, for example, read in
whole CDs as one track, or retrieve the CD
information for several CDs with one single CDDB
query.
Creating a own File Archive:
BPM Studio can manage several ten thousands
of titles. At such vast
numbers, it is easy
to loose track, if
titles are not
assigned to different
general categories.
For this purpose the
File Archive is used.
In the screen shot to
the side you can see
an example
structure of an
archive of this kind.
It consists of a
number of
categories, and sub
categories that can
be opened and
closed by double
click. After the initial
installation or after reading in CDs you'll find new
titles here that can be assigned to categories
according to your preference.
The archive shown here consists of the following
categories:
First Steps