Olive Media Products O3HD - Manual (Page 10)

11 O L I V E 0 3 H D & 0 4 H D Q U I C K S T A R T G U I D E
3 Importing Music
3.1 Ripping CDs
To import CDs into your Olive HD Music Server please
follow these simple steps:
1. SELECT THE AUDIO FORMAT
Go to SETTINGS > CD SETTINGS > CD IMPORT
QUALITY and select the quality of the encoding. We
recommend FLAC as it preserves the original CD quality
while reducing the storage requirement to about 50% of
uncompressed music (WAV). Once you set the quality, it
will apply to all CDs that you rip.
2. INSERT THE CD
A pop-up screen will appear, displaying the album title,
artist and the album artwork.
If the CD is not recognized (i.e. the title of the album
and artist show up as ““unknown””) we recommend
connecting the Olive HD Music Server to the internet
to browse the online CD database. If the CD is still not
recognized you can edit the information through the
Maestro web interface (page 14) later on. Please do not
edit the information until the CD is fully transcoded.
L Your Olive HD Music Server needs to be connected to the
internet in order to get album artwork. If album artwork is not
available, an Olive logo will appear as a placeholder.
L The Olive HD Music Server only supports regular Audio
CDs. SA-CD and DVD Audio is not supported.
3. RIP THE CD
Tap on the IMPORT button and the CD will be ripped.
You can check the import status under SETTINGS >
SYSTEM SERVICES > RUNNING SERVICES.
The CD ripping is done in two stages: 1) Copying the
music in uncompressed format onto the hard drive (takes
5-7 minutes per CD); 2) Transcoding the music into the
format you have selected in step 1 (takes 20-25 minutes
per CD).
If you have selected the uncompressed WAV format,
the ripping process is complete after the CD has been
copied to the HDD.
L The transcoding of CDs takes a lot of processing power
and we recommend to pause after importing 20 to 30 CDs so
the Olive HD Music Server can  nish the transcoding process.
During transcoding the navigation of the Olive HD Music Server
can appear slow as only limited processing power is available.