7.1.2. Making an Audio CD using Easy CD Creator

Please follow the instructions below to create your first Audio CD using your new Yamaha

3-in-1 CD-RW drive and Adaptec’s Easy-CD Creator:

1.Click the Start button located in the lower left side of your Windows 95/98/ME screen.

2.Select Programs and click on the Adaptec Easy CD Creator, select Create CD and click on it. The Easy CD Creator Wizard window is now displayed.

3.Select Audio and then click on Audio CD.

Important Note: The Easy CD Creator software may ask you to allow it to test you system and find out if it can write or rewrite at 8X or 16X speeds. If you are using CD-RW media you may get an error message indicating that the source material is larger in size than the destination’s capacity allows. Please ignore this message and proceed. If you use CD-R media, you will not get this message.

4. A CD layout is now available for creation.

Important Note: To record songs from an existing music CD, a CD layout should first be created. A CD layout is a file that contains the list of songs and the order in which they may be recorded. After the CD layout is created, you can then record that layout to a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc. Please follow the steps below to record your CD.

5.It is now time to select songs from your source CD. If you have removed your old CD-ROM drive or never had a CD-ROM drive installed in your system, insert the source CD (from which you would like to select a song) in your new CD-RW drive. If you have kept your CD-ROM drive in the system, you can use it to facilitate recording by inserting the source CD into the CD-ROM drive and placing a CD-R or CD-RW media in your new CD-RW (destination) drive.

Important Note: You can only record directly from a CD-ROM drive if it supports digital audio extraction. (DAE). If your CD-ROM drive was installed in 1997 or later then it is likely capable of supporting digital audio extraction. To be sure your CD-ROM drive supports DAE, please contact the manufacturer of your CD-ROM drive. For more information, please refer to Easy CD Creator’s online manual.

6.Select the drive letter of your source audio CD on the left hand window inside your Easy CD Creator window.

7.In the larger upper right hand window, select the tracks you would like to record on your new CD by highlighting them and dragging them to the lower window.

8.Repeat the steps above for each existing music CD from which you want to record songs. Please note that a status bar at the bottom of the window will provide the cap- tured capacity versus free capacity of the CD-R or CD-RW disc you are planning to record the songs to.

9.Fill out Disc Title and Artist Names.

10.Select Create CD from the tool bar after you placed all of the songs that you had planned to record into the Audio CD Layout window. The CD Creation Setup box is now displayed.

11.Click on the Advanced button.

12.Select from Create Options box your choice of Test Only, Test & Create CD or Create CD. Choosing Test & Create CD is more prudent especially if this is the first time you are attempting to create an audio CD.

13.Select from the Write Method box the Track-at-Onceand then select Close CD.

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