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7.2 Creating MP3 files from your Audio CDs
Make sure you have already installed the MusicMatch™ program from the included CD-ROM.
ENCODE First we have to get those CDs of yours into MP3 format. Regular CDs are in the
format CDA (fancy term for Compact Disc Audio). We’ll just use MusicMatch™ and encode
them into MP3 format.
a) Start MusicMatch™ by double-clicking on the icon.
b) Insert your music CD into your computer’s CD drive. MusicMatch™ will start playing the CD.
Click on the stop button to stop playing the CD.
c) Open up the recorder window by
clicking on View, and then select
Record as shown. The Record
window will appear and you will see
your CD tracks on the right of the
window. If the CD is relatively new
(last four years) it will probably
already have the track title
information included in the CD. If
not, you will see the words Track 1,
Track 2, etc.
d) In the recorder window, the tracks that will be recorded (turned into MP3 format) will have a
check mark in front of the song. You can uncheck the tracks that you do not want to record. Now
click on Start. MusicMatch™
will now encode the checked
tracks into MP3 files. You
will see the CD music tracks
being encoded in real time.
Notice in this screen capture
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that the first song is 50% encoded. Be patient as the encoding time can take a while.
LOCATE Now let’s go get those MP3s so that we can transfer them over to the Jukebox.
MusicMatch™ automatically puts them in the folder My Music. Start by double-clicking on My
Documents and then open My Music. You will then find an Artist folder, and within it, your
specific album.
TRANSFER Finally, transfer the files over to the Gmini as explained previously.
7.3 Getting purchased MP3 files to your Gmini
If you subscribe to a paid internet music service* which allows you to download MP3 music files
and you want to put them on your Gmini, you should do the following.
Start by downloading your music file to your folder My Music on your computer. You should use
a clean file structure as described in section 8.1 of this manual. Next, connect your Gmini to your
computer and then follow instructions in section 7.2.
Attention: Before subscribing to a paid music service, be careful to read the
information on the music download web site to be sure that the file format is supported
by the Gmini. Some websites may use special encription systems.
7.4 Transferring MP3 files from your computer to your Gmini
Attention: You should re-index the ARCLibrary system so that it can take into
account newly transferred files. This is automatically done each time you select “Send
to Portable device” in MusicMatch™ with the Gmini connected to your PC.
MusicMatch™ will display a message “Activating Portable Device” while it is
updating the ARCLibrary contents. If you transfer large amounts of files to your Gmini
(tens of Gigabytes of data) the indexing will take about one minute for each gigabyte
of music). If you do not update your ARCLibrary after transfering files to the Gmini, it
will not be able to include these mp3 files in the ARCLibrary. You will have to play
these files by browsing the Gmini’s hard drive in the Browser mode .