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It is recommended that you leave this option checked until you have recorded to several CDs and are certain that no issues or problems exist with your hardware setup.

Use Burn-Proof:

A check mark in this box eliminates any buffer underrun errors you may encounter with your drive. This option is only available for drives equipped with Burn-Proof technology.

Use Just-Link:

A check mark in this box eliminates any buffer underrun errors you may encounter with your drive. This option is only available for drives equipped with Just-Linktechnology.

Use Lossless Linking:

A check mark in this box eliminates any buffer underrun errors you may encounter with your drive. This option is only available for drives equipped with Lossless Linking technology.

CDDB Tab

The CDDB tab contains options controlling how RecordNow downloads song information from the Internet (CDDB (Compact Disc Database) Tips on page 60 for more information on CDDB).

NOTE: When using the Internet to download information from CDDB, no information from your system is uploaded to CDDB.

Use the CDDB tab to customize the following settings.

Never download information:

A check mark in this box prevents RecordNow from accessing CDDB to download song information.

Use proxy server:

Check this box if you use a proxy server to access the Internet.

Address: The computer address of your proxy server.

Port: The port connection of your proxy server.

My proxy server requires login:

Check this box if you want RecordNow to remember your login information (if any) of your proxy server.

Username: The name you use to login to your proxy server.

Password: The password you use to login to your proxy server.

Tips and Tricks

HP RecordNow uses an easy to understand design to make recording discs as simple as possible. This section describes some helpful tips that can make your recording even easier.

CDDB (Compact Disc Database) Tips

RecordNow’s CDDB feature can gather artist, album and genre information about your audio files. This can be very helpful in sorting through your MP3 file collection for your favorite songs or artists (see CDDB for more information).

To sort your music files:

Prompt before downloading information:

A check mark in this box causes RecordNow to prompt you before accessing CDDB to download song information.

Always download information:

A check mark in this box causes RecordNow to automatically access CDDB to download song information.

1.Click Scan for Music from the Make a Music Disc from Audio Files or Make a Disc fro an MP3 Player screens to display the music files in the Music on System window on the left.

NOTE: If you use the CDDB feature to download song information for your files, depending on the amount of files on your system, the initial download process may take a few minutes.

2.Click the View button to display a drop-down menu of the various sorting options.

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