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CD Manager

CD Manager is a complete CD tool solution for Zeta. It is capable of playing CDs, copy them to various file formats and at last burn them to a CD.

The first time you start CD Manager, you should go to Preferences and choose the Device you want to use with this application. On a desktop system these days, you might have more then one device capable of burning CDs.

Then set your preferred Audio reading speed, CD-R and CD-RW writing speed for the chosen device. For CD recordings you should also have a look on what speeds the blank CDs are capable of.

In the Application Preference you should choose the Project Folder. By default, the copied files will be stored in the config (/boot/home/config/) folder.

Before you start copying the files, go to the CD Reading Preferences and set the file format that you want to use when you are copying contents from CDs:

Choose if you want to remove digital silence in the beginning of each track or in the end of each track.

Add the CD that you would like to listen to or copy, and mount it. The CD will appear in the source window and you can start playing it. If you would like to copy the content, choose Create New Project.

Give the project a name in the dialog box that appears, for instance the name of the album. Go to the CD in the source window and select all tracks. Right-click on the mouse and from the content menu choose Add Copys To, and then choose the project (here: nenaallesgute).

A progress window will now appear, showing you the progress in copying the chosen tracks.

CD Manager doesn't support CDDB lookups, but in some cases you can do Read CD-TEXT. If you can't import CD-TEXT, you will have to edit the attributes your self. First mark all the copied tracks from the album, right-click the mouse, and from the content menu choose Edit Artist. Write the name of the artist in the dialog box that appears. Do the same with each track, to add it's name. You could also Swap Artists & Titles.

CD Manager is also great for playback. The interface gives information about the location of the track, the artist's name and name of the track:

There is also a prgressbar show how far in to the song you are, and each song in the project has it's own button for fast access. There is also buttons for last and next song, and a pop down menu listing all songs in the project.

Burning a CD
From the Tools menu choose Write Data CD Image File..., a dialog box will appear:

To burn a CD with CD Manager, you first have to choose a CD image file. You can choose between the following Write-Modes: Disc At Once (default), Track At Once and Track At Once without fixation.

The Write-Speed is by default Current, but can be set to Maximum, 4.0X (713 K/sec), 10.0X (1771 K/sec), 16.0X (2829 K/sec) or 24.0X (4241 K/sec).

You can do a Write simulation, Write simulation and write or Write it directly to disc without testing.

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