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Plextor CD-ROM, CD-R, and CD-RW  

Software Suite and Utilities 

For Microsoft® Windows® 95, 98, NT, 2000 

 

 
 

Plextor Manager Version 1.07 

August 2000 

 

 

Congratulations! 

 
Plextor Manager 2000 is a remarkable suite of software utilities that help you get the 
most from your Plextor drive. Plextor Manager 2000 puts more features at your 
fingertips and makes them easier to use than ever before. This manual will show you 
how to begin using Plextor Manager 2000 for greater productivity—and more fun! 
 
 

Summary of Contents for PlextorManager 2000

Page 1: ...ngratulations Plextor Manager 2000 is a remarkable suite of software utilities that help you get the most from your Plextor drive Plextor Manager 2000 puts more features at your fingertips and makes t...

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Page 3: ...ning MVP 2000 11 MVP 2000 Application Controls 11 Selecting the Default Drives 13 Playing an Audio CD with CD DA Player 14 Playing Digital Files Audio and Video 14 Viewing or Changing Media Types and...

Page 4: ...ing DiscDupe 2000 Options 38 Using a Temporary Image 38 Using Images 38 Selecting the Speed 38 Emulate Test 39 Verifying the Copied Disc 39 Using BURN Proof 39 Copying CD Text Discs 40 Copying CD G Di...

Page 5: ...WAV Files 53 Windows 95 Sound Utilities 53 Apparent Problems with Sound Recorder 53 Changing the Default Player 54 Appendix A Contacting Plextor Technical Support 55 How to Contact Us 55 Before You E...

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Page 7: ...000 or NT CPU Pentium 200 MHz minimum RAM 64 MB Sound Card For audio playback Graphics Super VGA IDE or SCSI Interface Use a PCI bus mastering controller for best performance CD Drive reading Plextor...

Page 8: ...or SCSI bus for better sound quality Graphic display View music as you play it Digital jukebox Create your own mixed audio MP3 WMA or WAV format playlists and CD audio tracks Play them back sequential...

Page 9: ...es 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 collecti...

Page 10: ...o your PlexWriter Enhanced Drive Properties Plextor Manager 2000 adds features to the Properties menu just right click that is click the right mouse button on the Plextor drive s icon located in My Co...

Page 11: ...ally as WAV files on Windows 95 98 2000 and Windows NT 4 0 systems This has a number of advantages Allows easy drag and drop of audio tracks to your hard disk for simple and quick audio extraction to...

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Page 13: ...window that prompts you whether or not to associate various multimedia type files with Plextor Manager 2000 Click any or all check boxes on to select which file types to associate with Plextor Manage...

Page 14: ...under Windows 2000 or NT Unlike Windows 98 and 95 Windows 2000 NT does not have its own ASPI manager With Plextor s ASPI manager installed you can take full advantage of Plextor Manager 2000 extended...

Page 15: ...ndows desktop If you prefer you can turn off the launch of Plextor Manager 2000 and also turn off the splash screen display Disabling Plextor Manager Launcher By default Windows loads the Plextor Mana...

Page 16: ...om the Windows Start menu select Settings Control Panel You see the Windows Control Panel 3 In the Control Panel select Add Remove Programs You see the Install Uninstall dialog box 4 In the list of pr...

Page 17: ...If you are using a PlexWriter drive it even will let you record an audio CD or a CD Text audio CD from your playlist Playlists can reside on any storage media NOTE Non Plextor MMC compliant drives ca...

Page 18: ...f you re playing a digital music file such as WMA and MP3 single click with your left mouse button on the file or song name to see a file information window with displays of the file or song name titl...

Page 19: ...ngs window 2 Click the General tab to view general options 3 In the upper drop down list box select the MMC compliant drive whether from Plextor or not to use as default CD player 4 From the lower dro...

Page 20: ...playlist that you previously saved 3 Click the Play button Viewing or Changing Media Types and File Formats MVP 2000 supports a number of media types and file formats for input and output During insta...

Page 21: ...do not change until the next reboot NOTE Although we feel that you will not want to use similar programs after using MVP 2000 you can if desired go back to another player of choice During Plextor Man...

Page 22: ...PlexWriter 2 In the main MVP 2000 window set the CD DA A V rocker switch to the A V lower position 3 Click the Playlist icon and create a playlist of your selections Use the Add Delete buttons to sele...

Page 23: ...wer speed than MP3 files and MP3 files are decoded more slowly than WAV files If the playlist contains different types of files overall decoding speed will vary And your recording speed will be set to...

Page 24: ...your computer for other tasks while you re burning a CD while giving the best chance for a successful recording NOTE BURN Proof is always enabled by default with drives that support this feature If y...

Page 25: ...al tab to view general options 4 In the Write Mode section select Test only or select Test Write You can choose to leave the selection at Write only if you are confident Test mode is not needed 5 Clic...

Page 26: ...a Playlist Creating a playlist is similar to programming a digital jukebox Select music tracks regardless of file type put them in any order and then play back or record Playlist Controls Figure 5 sho...

Page 27: ...numbered order modes for playing the playlist This button is red to indicate when random order playback is active black when in numbered order for playback Building a Playlist To build a playlist 1 I...

Page 28: ...laylist PLL file The playlist is loaded and displayed on the playlist screen Recording from a Playlist To record a CD by using a playlist 1 Place a blank CD R or CD RW disc in the PlexWriter 2 In the...

Page 29: ...nnected to the Internet inserting a new audio CD one you haven t already used with CDDB enabled on your computer causes MVP 2000 to access CDDB for information about that specific disc CDDB has data o...

Page 30: ...view CDDB information 1 Ensure that your computer has an active connection to the Internet 2 Start MVP 2000 3 In the MVP 2000 window click Options You see the Plextor Manager 2000 Settings window with...

Page 31: ...rmation about new discs click on the Options button again 13 Click on the CDDB tab and uncheck the box Use Escient CDDB 14 Click the OK button to exit the Settings window If desired click the CDDB ico...

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Page 33: ...acks and rename tracks as you are saving them You can also perform error correction to eliminate pops clicks and hissing Audio Capture 2000 Application Controls Figure 8 shows the main controls for th...

Page 34: ...and select a drive Capturing Audio Tracks to Digital Audio Files To capture audio tracks from an audio CD to your hard drive 1 Start Audio Capture 2000 2 Click the Select Source Drive drop down list...

Page 35: ...disc was already obtained the default filename will be song name wav If you prefer you can give the file a different name before starting the capture 7 Click the Capture Tracks button You see a dialog...

Page 36: ...e required for capture and the greater the file size As you select different levels of audio quality note the change to file size shown under Length in the Track Selection Window To allow playback of...

Page 37: ...udio Capture 2000 you can ensure high quality audio in your WAV or WMA files You can set error correction anywhere from 0 percent no correction to 100 percent By default error correction is set to 100...

Page 38: ...Capture 2000 window click the Set CDDB Options button You see the CDDB text box Figure 10 Setting CDDB Options in Audio Capture 2000 4 In the E mail Address field enter your e mail address 5 Click the...

Page 39: ...in for that disc From that point MVP 2000 and Audio Capture 2000 have access to the information in the text file even if you re no longer connected to the master CDDB database via the Internet Togglin...

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Page 41: ...nation DiscDupe 2000 Application Controls Figure 11 shows the main controls for DiscDupe 2000 Figure 11 DiscDupe 2000 Controls About Click to see information about this application Source drop down li...

Page 42: ...46 Start Copy Click to begin copying a disc Minimize Click to minimize this application Quit Click to quit this application Choosing a Disc for Duplicating In choosing whether to duplicate to CD R or...

Page 43: ...nt on your system Duplicating When the PlexWriter Is Your Only Drive To duplicate a CD when the PlexWriter is the only drive in the system 1 Make sure you have enough free space on your hard disk NOTE...

Page 44: ...cDupe 2000 Images are particularly useful when several copies of a disc are needed or if another duplicate of this disc will be needed at a later time It is also extremely helpful if you do not have a...

Page 45: ...ion Verifying the Copied Disc The Verify Disc option reads the data from your duplicate CD and compares it to the original disc Verify Disc is for data CDs only audio CD verification is not currently...

Page 46: ...orted drives If you have a non Plextor drive even one that is MMC compliant remember that some of these drives cannot read CD G discs and therefore cannot be used as source drives for duplication Plea...

Page 47: ...de with DiscDupe 2000 use the Session At Once mode for duplication Session At Once mode copies CDs without turning the PlexWriter s laser off between tracks That is the laser is turned on at the begin...

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Page 49: ...ive The choices include Play Play with MVP 2000 Launches MVP 2000 to play audio discs Copy CD Launches DiscDupe 2000 to copy audio or data discs Extract Audio Launches Audio Capture 2000 to capture au...

Page 50: ...tells the CD database on the Internet what information to provide for display in MVP 2000 Media manufacturer with PlexWriters only Type of media with PlexWriters only Write speed rating for CD RW med...

Page 51: ...revents a high speed drive Plextor CD ROM drives 20x and higher from reading at low speeds This feature enables better playback of video games that are poorly manufactured See below for an explanation...

Page 52: ...ive icon for the Plextor drive containing the video game disc 4 Right click that is click the right mouse button on the Plextor drive icon and select Properties to view the Properties dialog box 5 In...

Page 53: ...ill not be read right away instead you will have to wait a few seconds while the drive spins up the disc to an appropriate RPM before it can start to read the data Default spindown timeout for the dri...

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Page 55: ...S eliminates the need for hard disk storage space to store those large WAV files AudioFS makes the creation or compilation of audio CDs very easy Enabling AudioFS NOTE AudioFS is enabled by default du...

Page 56: ...on your hard drive Turning Off AudioFS To disable AudioFS 1 Go to My Computer and right click the drive icon that shows an AudioFS volume label or In Windows Explorer right click the drive icon that...

Page 57: ...your USB speakers This provides you with digital sound which has a much better quality than that from the analog speakers normally used with sound boards Digital audio also allows for multiple drives...

Page 58: ...proceed To ensure that AudioFS is properly loaded on your system 1 Make sure that latest version of Plextor Manager 2000 is installed on your system Click the Plextor Manager icon in the taskbar then...

Page 59: ...Recorder Sndrec32 exe Apparent Problems with Sound Recorder Plextor s AudioFS creates WAV files from regular audio discs CD DA Red Book only on the fly The typical WAV file size from a song on a CD is...

Page 60: ...My Computer or Windows Explorer 2 From the Taskbar choose View 3 In the View menu choose Option 4 On the Option screen choose the File Type tab 5 Scroll the Registered File Types until you find the Wa...

Page 61: ...that relate specifically to your PlexWriter drive and Plextor software In many cases a problem that appears to be caused by your software or PlexWriter actually originates in another part of your comp...

Page 62: ...g a SCSI interface the name and model number of your SCSI interface board e g Adaptec AHA 2940 Advansys ABP 930UA If you are using a SCSI interface the version of the software device drivers if any th...

Page 63: ...he Software recorded on the original media and all subsequent copies of the Software regardless of the form or media in which or on which the original and other copies may exist This License is not a...

Page 64: ...l terminated This License will terminate immediately without notice from Plextor or judicial resolution if you fail to comply with any provision of this License Upon such termination you must destroy...

Page 65: ...ment by returning the Software and your money will be refunded 7 Export You acknowledge that the laws and regulations of the United States restrict the export and re export of the Software You agree t...

Page 66: ...by both parties Should any provision of this Agreement be declared unenforceable in any jurisdiction then such provision shall be deemed to be severable from this Agreement and shall not affect the r...

Page 67: ...5 49 advantages 49 control 45 default 49 enabling 49 turning off 50 using for extraction 50 WAV files and 49 Windows 95 and 53 auto start software 16 autorun installation 7 AVI file format 14 B balan...

Page 68: ...window 12 drive duplicating with a single PlexWriter 37 enhanced properties 43 non Plextor and DiscDupe 2000 36 refreshing the enhanced properties 44 selecting source for audio capture 28 drive speed...

Page 69: ...recording audio 16 recording digital music 16 starting 9 switching WAV player default to 54 test mode 19 O open files MVP 2000 12 options DiscDupe 2000 38 MVP 2000 9 12 13 14 17 19 24 30 output qualit...

Page 70: ...d select drop down list 36 spindown timeout control 45 47 splash screen 9 disabling 9 start copy button 36 starting Plextor Manager 2000 modules 9 startup changing behavior 9 status of audio capture 2...

Page 71: ...Index Plextor Manager 2000 User s Manual 65 Windows audio format 30 WMA file format specifying for capture 30 specifying for playback with MVP 2000 30...

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