Hi Trace.
If you prefer to use CDEX to rip your CD's, the following notes may be 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.. Start CDEX from the desktop or programs menu.
3.. Your screen reader will start to announce the track listing of the CD
as "Audio Track 1, Audio Track 2", etc.
4.. 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
5.. To retrieve artist name, album title and track titles from the CDDB
manually,
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.
6.. 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
7.. To rip all of the tracks to WAV format, press F8.
8.. To rip all of the tracks to MP3 format, press F9.
9.. 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.
10.. 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.. Press enter to open a browse folders dialogue.
E.. Select the folder where you'd like CDEX to place your ripped tracks
and open the folder by pressing the right arrow key
F.. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm the choice
of output folder
G.. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm your changes
11.. 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.
Kevin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dancing Queen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: Copying CD's
> OK, could you give me some instructions please?
>
> Sorry for the delay, been mad around here lately.
>
> thanks
>
> Trace
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Copying CD's
>
>
> > Hi Trace.
> >
> > It would be best for you to rip your CD's to your hard drive and then
> > create
> > your compilation in the same way as you did for those tracks you
> > downloaded.
> > You can use media player, CDEX or a few other rippers to do this and
> > you'll
> > need to choose a format you're happy with. I'd recommend ripping to a
> > lossless format such as WMA lossless. You can use media player to rip
> > your
> > CD's to this format.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Kevin
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dancing Queen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 3:44 PM
> > Subject: Copying CD's
> >
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I've now managed to make a compilation CD from tracks downloaded from
the
> >> net, all in mp3 format.
> >>
> >> I have a large cd collection, how do I go about copying whole albums or
> >> various tracks from an existing cd on to a blank cd, to make my own
> >> compilation for example?
> >>
> >> i use Nero 6
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Trace
> >>
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