Operating the CD Player/Recorder
By default, when you insert an audio CD into your computer’s
Normally, when the Wave/PC system plays a CD for the first time, the Wave/PC application downloads detailed information for that CD from the CDDB website. If you do not want the Wave/PC application to do this, remove the check next to “Automatically get CD track info from the Internet.” If this option is unchecked, you can get CD information anytime by clicking the Get Track Info button in the CD application window.
When you click the Get Track Info button, the CDDB Internet service may find more than one match for some of your song titles. To limit your request to only the first match found, make sure you select “Use first match for CD track info.” If you choose not to select this option, you will be prompted by CDDB to select one item from the list.
When this checkbox is selected, CDs are played using the analog output of the
The recording format drop list offers you a choice of audio file formats: Fixed MP3, Variable MP3, or WAV (uncompressed). Fixed MP3 is recommended. It is more compatible with other devices, such as portable MP3 players.
The recording quality drop list allows you to select the quality level for recording. The avail- able levels vary according to the recording format you choose. In general, the higher the bit rate, the better the sound quality but the larger the audio file size.
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Low | 64 kbps | 0.5MB/min. |
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Medium | 128 kbps | 1MB/min. |
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160 kbps | 1.25MB/min. | |
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High (default) | 192 kbps | 1.5MB/min. |
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Higher | 256 kbps | 2MB/min. |
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Highest | 320 kbps | 2.5MB/min. |
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