Very good detailed info.
One thing that has always baffled me about CDEX, which no-one seems to be able answer. In the CDDB menu there is an option that says "Read from Winamp DB". It is greyed out or unavailable. My understanding of this is that one should be able to read from the Winamp program to fetch the CD titles which have been retrieved from Gracenote. If I could get this to work there would be no need for any other program to rip.
Peter S.
At 11:46 AM 30/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:
Hi Kevin.
I've pasted some notes below on ripping music to your hard drive using cDEX. If you need any additional assistance, my e-mail address is at the end of this message.
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: 1.. Press F4 to open the Settings dialogue 2.. Press shift tab and then right arrow until you reach the Remote CDDB tab 3.. Press tab until you reach a control requesting you to enter your e-mail address 4.. Key in your e-mail address and then tab to OK 5.. If you'd like CDEX to get CD information automatically each time you start CDEX, then check the auto connect checkbox. 6.. Press enter on the OK button to confirm your changes 5.. To retrieve artist name, album title and track titles from the CDDB, do the following: 1.. Press alt + D to enter the CDDB menu 2.. Press down arrow until you reach "Read remote CDDB" 3.. Press enter and CDEX will query the CDDB and pull back the artist name, album title and track titles 4.. 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: 1.. Press F4 to enter the Settings dialogue 2.. 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 3.. Press tab until you reach the control for "on-the-fly MP3 encoding" and press the spacebar to uncheck this 4.. Press tab until you reach the encoder tab again and use the left arrow key until you reach the general tab 5.. Press tab until you reach the control "normalise volume" and press the spacebar to check this 6.. 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: 1.. Press F4 to enter the settings dialogue 2.. Press shift and tab and then left arrow until you reach the filenames tab 3.. Press tab until you reach the WAV>MP3 control 4.. Route the JAWS cursor to the PC cursor using the insert + JAWS cursor keystroke 5.. Use the keystroke insert + left arrow to locate the button to the right of the WAV>MP3 control 6.. Press the left mouse button on the numpad to activate this button 7.. Select the folder where you'd like CDEX to place your ripped tracks and open the folder by pressing the right arrow key 8.. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm the choice of output folder 9.. 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: 1.. Press F4 to enter the settings dialogue 2.. Press shift and tab and then left arrow until you reach the filenames tab 3.. 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.
4.. Tab to the ok button and press enter to confirm the new settings.
Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Cussick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:53 PM Subject: Having a problem saving tracks with cdx
> I wonder if some one could give me some help I am not to good at > picking things up with computers so I might be better getting some help > off list. > > I am trying to rip tracks from a cd and save them as mp3 files if some > one could walk me threw this procedure I would be very grateful. > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.2 - Release Date: 28/01/2005 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
