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Rip CD Tracks
Rip CD Tracks to .wav, or .mp3 or .ogg This feature allows you to “Rip” (convert) CD Red Book Audio CDs to Wave files (.wav) or MP3s (.mp3) or Ogg (.ogg). To operate this feature, first place the CD into the CD ROM drive in your computer and then launch the “Rip CD Tracks” feature found under the File Menu. A dialog box will appear with the following selections and features from which to choose:
The CD Ripper Dialog Box
Destination Path for Ripped Files: Browse to the desired Directory
An MP3 Setup button is provided to quickly bring up the MP3 encoder(s) preferences box should you desire to make some changes in its settings, precluding the necessity of having to go to the Edit/Preferences menu item.
Note 1: ID3V2 mp3 tags are automatically added by the ripper to MP3 files. These include the Title, Artist, Album, Track #, Maximum tracks and Genre.
Note 2: Ripping directly to an external (USB or Firewire) drive is not recommended. Timing errors in the data pathway can result in the creation of corrupted files. If you want to maintain your ripped files on an external drive, rip them to a directory on your “C” drive first and then transfer these files to your external drive(s) thereafter.
MP3Encoder Setup
CD Ripper Preferences
If you click on the “Rip Options” button, the CD Ripper Preferences Menu will appear.
File Options
This controls your file overwriting and file opening options.
The file format extension that is created by the “Create Playlist after Ripping” feature is .xml.
CD Control Options
One feature involves the limiting of the ripping speed of the system. This is useful sometimes when a CD ROM has become warped due to its paper label (or due to other variables). Disc “warpage” can create a situation in which the CD ROM will not rip, but slowing the disc down can sometimes overcome this difficulty. Also, it is generally good practice to leave the “Jitter Correction” on, but it substantially slows down the ripping process due to the extensive calculations required to perform this task. But sometimes better CD ROM ripping success may be had with this feature turned off when encountering extremely problematic discs. Experimentation is the only way to know for sure what will work when ripping warped (or out-of-balance) CDs.
The CD Ripper Preferences Menu
Track Naming
You control how the resulting ripped tracks are named via the Track Naming feature. Typically track names are simply the track # and song title, but many folks prefer to include more information in the title.
The system derives its information from the CDDB or via manual data entry in the Ripper and constructs the file name accordingly. Select the fields you want included in the name and arrange them by using the “Move Up” button. Four choices are provided along with 3 possible data separators including a Dash, Space or a Comma. To change the order, click on one of the attributes and then click on the “Move Up” button. That will cause that item to be moved one position to the left in the hierarchy. Repeat the process until you obtain your desired final result.
Open Destination
This command allows you to define the name and desired storage location of the processed version of the .wav file that you are about to create through the use of the various signal-processing tools of the DCArt10/DC Forensics10. The use of this command is optional since the software creates temporary files automatically.
Rip CD Tracks to .wav, or .mp3 or .ogg This feature allows you to “Rip” (convert) CD Red Book Audio CDs to Wave files (.wav) or MP3s (.mp3) or Ogg (.ogg). To operate this feature, first place the CD into the CD ROM drive in your computer and then launch the “Rip CD Tracks” feature found under the File Menu. A dialog box will appear with the following selections and features from which to choose:
The CD Ripper Dialog Box
- CD Drive Selection: Used to choose the CD ROM Drive that you want to use to rip your CD.
- Artist Field: Allows you to identify the Artist for the Ripped File
- Title Field: Allows you to identify a Title for your Ripped CD.
- “Rip All Tracks” precludes the necessity to highlight the desired tracks to be ripped from the CD.
- Select Tracks to Rip Box: This box shows all tracks which are available on the CD either as Track Numbers or Track Names depending on whether or not the CDDB had been utilized. Selecting Tracks to be ripped is accomplished as follows:
- To select a single Track to be ripped, simply point your mouse towards the desired track, and use the left mouse button.
- To select Tracks at random, point your mouse towards the track(s) of interest and use the Ctrl Key in conjunction with the left mouse button.
- To select a range of Tracks to be ripped, first point your mouse at the bottom most track of interest in the list and use the Ctrl Left mouse button to highlight the same. Next, point the mouse to the top Track in the range of interest and click on Ctrl + the Left mouse button. The range of tracks between these two Tracks all will become highlighted.
- To clear all selections, point the mouse to the right hand side of the Track selection box and left mouse click. All Tracks will become un-highlighted.
- A checkbox is provided for CD jitter correction. Potentially this can improve the accuracy of the transfer process, with the tradeoff of a slower ripping speed.
- CD Database automatically assigns track names to inserted CDs
- CDDB Lookup: CD Data Base Lookup correlates the tracks on your CD to Song Titles that can be found on the Internet. To use this function, first you must place the CD in the CD ROM Drive. Next, launch the “Rip CD Tracks” feature. After the track list is developed and you are connected to the Internet, clicking on the CDDB Lookup Button will find (if available) the CD title and song list and convert the tracks to song titles. This process will take place automatically by selecting the Auto Lookup checkbox, but will only work if you are connected to the internet at the time of the CD rip. If you want to edit/change the name of a particular track, use the Windows slow left-mouse double-click on the track of interest (double click with about 1 second between clicks). It will then become highlighted, allowing you to change the track title. Setup for the CDDB system can be found in the Preferences section of the Edit menu under the “CDDB Setup” tab. For more details regarding CDDB setup, please refer to the preferences section of this manual.
- Selector: Choose between the following:
- Rip Tracks to .wav files
- Rip Tracks to MP3 Files (You will need to install an external encoder for this feature to work. Please refer to the MP3 Preferences Setup section of this manual)
- Rip Tracks Button: Click on this button to start the “Ripping” process.
- Ripping Status Box: This is located directly below the “Rip Tracks” button and includes the following:
- The system will indicate if the System is “Ready”
- The system will indicate Error Messages
- The system will indicate the progress of the ripping process via a “Progress Bar”
- It will indicate when the System is “Done”
- Modes of Operation Checkboxes:
- Use Artist/Disc Title for Directory Name
- “Rip All Tracks to One File”: This can be useful in situations wherein no dead-time is desired between contiguous tracks or when you want to process all the files on a CD through a filter in one single operation.
Destination Path for Ripped Files: Browse to the desired Directory
An MP3 Setup button is provided to quickly bring up the MP3 encoder(s) preferences box should you desire to make some changes in its settings, precluding the necessity of having to go to the Edit/Preferences menu item.
Note 1: ID3V2 mp3 tags are automatically added by the ripper to MP3 files. These include the Title, Artist, Album, Track #, Maximum tracks and Genre.
Note 2: Ripping directly to an external (USB or Firewire) drive is not recommended. Timing errors in the data pathway can result in the creation of corrupted files. If you want to maintain your ripped files on an external drive, rip them to a directory on your “C” drive first and then transfer these files to your external drive(s) thereafter.
MP3Encoder Setup
CD Ripper Preferences
If you click on the “Rip Options” button, the CD Ripper Preferences Menu will appear.
File Options
This controls your file overwriting and file opening options.
The file format extension that is created by the “Create Playlist after Ripping” feature is .xml.
CD Control Options
One feature involves the limiting of the ripping speed of the system. This is useful sometimes when a CD ROM has become warped due to its paper label (or due to other variables). Disc “warpage” can create a situation in which the CD ROM will not rip, but slowing the disc down can sometimes overcome this difficulty. Also, it is generally good practice to leave the “Jitter Correction” on, but it substantially slows down the ripping process due to the extensive calculations required to perform this task. But sometimes better CD ROM ripping success may be had with this feature turned off when encountering extremely problematic discs. Experimentation is the only way to know for sure what will work when ripping warped (or out-of-balance) CDs.
The CD Ripper Preferences Menu
Track Naming
You control how the resulting ripped tracks are named via the Track Naming feature. Typically track names are simply the track # and song title, but many folks prefer to include more information in the title.
The system derives its information from the CDDB or via manual data entry in the Ripper and constructs the file name accordingly. Select the fields you want included in the name and arrange them by using the “Move Up” button. Four choices are provided along with 3 possible data separators including a Dash, Space or a Comma. To change the order, click on one of the attributes and then click on the “Move Up” button. That will cause that item to be moved one position to the left in the hierarchy. Repeat the process until you obtain your desired final result.
Open Destination
This command allows you to define the name and desired storage location of the processed version of the .wav file that you are about to create through the use of the various signal-processing tools of the DCArt10/DC Forensics10. The use of this command is optional since the software creates temporary files automatically.