Place an audio CD into your computer's
CD drive, and after a few seconds it
will be recognized by AudioGrabber, and
you should see something similar to our
screen here. We show 12 tracks, with the
length and WAV filesize.
Now we want to fill in all the relevant
information using the internet search
feature in AudioGrabber, so click on the
Penguin on the toolbar (text says
Freedb under it), and AudioGrabber will
connect to the internet, and lookup the
CD on the FreeDB database.
Note: You will generally get good
results for store bought CDs, and some
DJ promotional CDs. If no results are
returned, it means that no one has
submitted that particular CD yet. If
that is the case, you will need to
manually fill in all the information
yourself, and if you do so, please
submit the CD to FreeDB, by using the
Submit to freedb option of the CD
menu, so that others can find it in the
future.
In our case, the lookup was successful,
and this is the result returned:
This is a compilation CD of 80's hits,
so note the Compilation item is checked,
the Artist is Various, and the Album
title is filled in. Genre and Year did
not come, so you can manually put that
information in -- the Genre is important
for later searching and sorting, so use
the drop down list of genres to tag this
group of files.
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Now we're ready to do the rip to WAV, so
click the Grab button on the toolbar,
and AudioGrabber will start ripping, and
display the following progress dialog to
keep you informed.
Ripping to WAV is very fast,
and as you can see, our CD read speed is
over 23x. As long as the CDs are in decent
shape, and you have a fast CD reader, it
should complete in about 2 minutes.
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When completed, it will eject the disc
(if you have that option set), and you
should see a screen like this:
At this point, we went ahead and ripped
another CD for demonstration purposes.
If we look in Window's Explorer, our
folders and files should look something
like this, as all the songs should now
reside in the WAVIN folder, in WAV
format.
Proceed
to Step 4...
Step 1 --
Step 2
-- Step 3
-- Step 4
