Import Audio CD Dialog
In this dialog, you can import one or multiple titles from an audio CD.
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To open the Import Audio CD dialog, select , and click Audio CD.
Functions Menu
- CD Info
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Displays the CD length and the UPC/EAN code, if available.
- Extract ISRC Codes
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Reads the ISRC codes and displays them in the list of titles. Depending on your CD drive, this can take a while.
- Examine CD-Text
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Opens the CD-Text dialog where you can view the CD-Text. Not all CD drives support CD-Text.
- Extract CD-Text
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Extracts the CD-Text and displays a summary in the list of titles.
Rename Titles Menu
- Name
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Renames the titles according to the selected renaming scheme.
- Search Track Names on the Internet (gnudb)
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Searches title names from an Internet database. If the album is found, the list of titles is updated.
- Submit Track Names to the Internet (gnudb)
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Submits the information about the album to the gnudb database of CD information.
Convert Menu
- Convert All CD Tracks to Audio Montage
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Extracts all titles and uses them to create an audio montage.
- Convert Selected CD Tracks to Audio Montage
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Extracts the selected titles and uses them to create an audio montage.
Actions Tab
- Source
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Select the CD drive from which you want to import audio.
- Speed
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Allows you to set the writing speed. The highest speed depends on your writing device and on the disc present in the device.
- Refresh
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If you insert a CD while the Import Audio CD dialog is open, you need to click this button to show the contents of that CD in the list.
- Eject Optical Medium
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Ejects the medium from the selected drive.
- Title List
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Shows the titles on the CD.
- Range – Start/Length
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If you want to import only a section of a title, use the Start and Length fields to define a start point and length.
- Output – Location
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Allows you to set the output location.
- Output – File Format
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Allows you to set the output file format.
- Select All
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Selects all titles in the list of titles.
- Play
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Plays back the selected title.
Options Tab
- Trim Silence
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If this option is activated, silence between imported titles is removed. Only digital silence is removed, that is, samples with a zero level.
- Automatically Refresh on CD Change
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If this option is activated, WaveLab Pro checks for the presence of a new CD in the drive several times a second. If a new CD is found, the title list display is refreshed.
- Automatically Extract ISRC Codes
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If this option is activated, ISRC codes are automatically extracted when a CD is inserted.
- Automatically Extract CD-Text
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If this option is activated, CD-Text is automatically extracted when a CD is inserted.
- Automatically Search Track Names on the Internet
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If this option is activated, title names are automatically searched on the Internet when a CD is inserted.
- Grab Pause before First Track (If Available)
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If this option is activated, when a section of audio is located before the first title, it is extracted together with the first title. This way, you can import hidden bonus titles.
- Use a Japanese CD-Text Decoder
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If this option is activated, CD-Text is interpreted as Japanese the next time it is extracted.
- Create Peak File
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If this option is activated, a peak file is created together with the rendered files.
- Show Times with CD Frame Units
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If this option is activated, times are shown in CD frame units. There are 75 CD frames per second.
- Play through Master Section
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If this button is activated, the Master Section is ignored. If the button is deactivated, the audio is played through the Master Section.
- Convert Titles and CD-Text to Metadata
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If this option is activated when importing titles into an audio format supporting metadata (for example, MP3 and WMA), the names of the titles and the CD-Text are automatically added to the file header.
- Ultra-Safe Mode (Slow)
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If this option is activated, each title is read several times until the same result is found (checksums are used). Specify the number of times that a title must be read with the same result before it is saved to disk.
- Read Audio Before and After Titles
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You can ensure that titles are imported in their entirety by defining how much audio should be read before and after each title.