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Operating the CD Player/Recorder
By default, when you insert an audio CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive, the Wave/PC
™
system automatically switches to the CD mode and starts playing the CD. To disable auto-
matic playing, remove the check next to “Automatically play CDs when inserted.”
Normally, when the Wave/PC system plays a CD for the first time, the Wave/PC application
downloads detailed information for that CD from the CDDB website. If you do not want the
Wave/PC application to do this, remove the check next to “Automatically get CD track info
from the Internet.” If this option is unchecked, you can get CD information anytime by clicking
the
Get Track Info
button in the CD application window.
When you click the
Get Track Info
button, the CDDB Internet service may find more than one
match for some of your song titles. To limit your request to only the first match found, make
sure you select “Use first match for CD track info.” If you choose not to select this option, you
will be prompted by CDDB to select one item from the list.
When this checkbox is selected, CDs are played using the analog output of the CD-ROM
drive. Otherwise, digital extraction is used when playing CDs. This setting does not affect the
CD recording process. However, when selected, simultaneous playback and recording of
CDs is not allowed.
The recording format drop list offers you a choice of audio file formats: Fixed MP3, Variable
MP3, or WAV (uncompressed). Fixed MP3 is recommended. It is more compatible with other
devices, such as portable MP3 players.
The recording quality drop list allows you to select the quality level for recording. The avail-
able levels vary according to the recording format you choose. In general, the higher the bit
rate, the better the sound quality but the larger the audio file size.
Quality Level
Bit Rate Encoding
(kilo-bits/sec.)
MBytes per
min. of play
Low
64 kbps
0.5MB/min.
Medium
128 kbps
1MB/min.
Medium-high
160 kbps
1.25MB/min.
High (default)
192 kbps
1.5MB/min.
Higher
256 kbps
2MB/min.
Highest
320 kbps
2.5MB/min.
