Olive Olive 4 HD, Quick Start Manual

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9 Q U I C K S T A R T G U I D E | O L I V E 4 H D
3 Importing Music
3.1 Ripping CDs
To import CDs into your Olive 4HD library please follow
these simple steps:
1. SELECT THE AUDIO FORMAT
Go to SETTINGS > CD SETTINGS > CD IMPORT
QUALITY and select the quality of the encoding. We
recommend FLAC as it preserves the original CD quality
while reducing the storage requirement to about 50% of
uncompressed music (WAV). Once you set the quality, it
will apply to all CDs that you rip.
2. INSERT THE CD
A pop-up screen will appear, displaying the album title,
artist and the album artwork.
If the CD is not recognized (i.e. the title of the album and
artist show up as “unknown”) we recommend connect-
ing the Olive 4HD to the internet to browse the online CD
database. If the CD is still not recognized you can edit the
information through the Maestro web interface (page 12)
later on. Please do not edit the information until the CD is
fully transcoded.
Your Olive 4HD needs to be connected to the internet in order
to get album artwork. If album artwork is not available, an Olive
logo will appear as a placeholder.
The Olive 4HD only supports regular Audio CDs. SA-CD and
DVD Audio is not supported.
3. RIP THE CD
Tap on the IMPORT button and the CD will be ripped. You
can check the import status in the main menu under CD
IMPORT STATUS.
The CD ripping is done in two stages: 1) Copying the
music in uncompressed format onto the hard drive (takes
5-7 minutes per CD); 2) Transcoding the music into the
format you have selected in step 1 (takes 20-25 minutes
per CD).
If you have selected the uncompressed WAV format,
the ripping process is complete after the CD has been
copied to the HDD.
The transcoding of CDs takes a lot of processing power and we
recommend to pause after importing 20 to 30 CDs so the Olive
4HD can finish the transcoding process. During transcoding the
navigation of the Olive 4HD can appear slow as only limited
processing power is available.
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