Section 1. Plextor Manager 2000 Applications
Plextor Manager 2000 User’s Manual
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Audio Capture 2000
Audio Capture 2000 lets you extract CD-Audio tracks right to your hard drive. The
extracted audio tracks are saved as WAV files, and are ready for playing in Windows
by MVP 2000 or any other digital audio player, and for encoding to formats such as
MP3, WMA, Real Audio, etc. These files can also be used with sound editing
software.
What’s more, support for Windows Media Audio (WMA) format has been included
in Audio Capture 2000. This means you can encode from your audio CD straight to
WMA format.
Features of Audio Capture 2000 include:
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Comprehensive track information: A track selection screen gives you all
necessary information about the source disc at a glance. Double-click to capture
an individual track or select several tracks at once.
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Choice of sound quality: You can select the sound quality level of the tracks
you want to capture. Audio Capture 2000 supports sampling rates of 44 kHz, 22
kHz, or 11 kHz, 8-bit or 16-bit resolution, as well as CD (44-kHz sampling, 16-
bit stereo), stereo and monaural sound.
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Encoding audio CD tracks directly to WMA format: You can encode your
audio CDs directly into WMA files. (WMA files allow you to digitize your music
while compressing the information more than 10 times, which means the file
takes up a lot less of your hard disk space.) This allows you to turn your audio
CD collection into a digital jukebox on your PC, and can give you access to
hundreds or thousands of songs. Audio Capture 2000 allows compression at bit
rates of 128 kbits and 64 kbits.
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Error correction: You can adjust the error correction rate as needed to eliminate
pops, clicks, or hissing noises from the source disc. Error correction can be set
from 0 percent to 100 percent.
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CDDB: Audio Capture 2000 can link via the Internet to CDDB, the world's
largest online database of audio CD information, and download the album name,
artist and song titles. Once information is downloaded, it is stored on your
computer, and all extracted or encoded files from that disc include this
information. For example, encoding to WAV files uses this information to save
the encoded file with the track name as the filename; WMA files can use the
information as the filename, and save the artist, song, and album names inside the
WMA file. So if you play this WMA file in MVP 2000 or another player that
supports this feature, you see the name of the song, artist, and album during
playback. What’s more, this same information is used when creating a CD-Text
disc with MVP 2000. The CDDB database has information on most
commercially manufactured audio CDs.
