ELAN Home Systems Digital Music Server - Manual (Page 17)

E L A N H O M E S Y S T E M S USER GUIDE
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TO MAKE A CUSTOM CD RECORDING
The custom recording option lets you choose which tracks to
record, the sound quality of the recording, and allows you to
enter album information.
To make a custom recording:
• Choose Custom from the “Please select Auto or
Custom record” screen.
A series of screens allow you to specify each of the recording
options.
Tracks
The tracks menu lets you specify which tracks you want to
record:
Initially all tracks are selected, as indicated by a
✔
in front of
the track number.
• Press
✔
Select key to unselect or select the highlighted
track.
• Press ^ or to step between tracks.
• Press
✖
None/All to unselect or select all of the tracks
respectively.
When you have specified which tracks you want to record:
• Press Next.
RECORDING QUALITY
The VIA!dj allows you to record your CDs at compression
rates. As shown in the table below, the higher quality options
use more space in your VIA!dj’s hard drive. Refer to the table
below:
One of the unique features of the VIA!dj is its 192Kb/s Variable
Bit Rate (VBR) recording option. At this setting, the VIA!dj
actually analyzes the content of the music being recorded and
adjusts the sampling rate according to the detail and nuances of
particular passages. This gives you a high-quality recording at
1/6 the hard drive space of an uncompressed CD (≈ 1,750
hours total!). This setting is ideal for whole-house audio distribu-
tion systems where the music is primarily being played over in-
wall and/or in-ceiling speakers.
NOTE: When recording a CD, the initial transfer of data is
uncompressed. The actual compression of the data
(at whatever Recording Quality option you have selected)
takes place only when the VIA!dj is not playing music. This is
important to know as, if you attempting to record multiple CDs,
you may receive a message saying that there is not enough
space on the hard drive to continue recording. If this occurs,
you will need to let the VIA!dj ‘stand’ for a period of time while
it compresses the recorded data and frees up hard disc space.
If recording multiple CDs, we suggest that you do your record-
ing in the evening and letting the VIA!dj compress the data
overnight.
The Record Quality menu allows you to specify the recording
quality:
• Use the ^ or keys to choose between Maximum (no
compression used) or one of the MP3 compression
options.
In each case the display shows the total remaining recording
time available at the specified recording quality.
• Press
✔
Select to confirm your selection.
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SETTING RECORDING APPROX. TOTAL APPROX. SIZE APPROX.
(KILOBYTES QUALITY HOURS OF OF CD FILE TOTAL CAPACITY
PER SECOND) RECORDING AS COMPARED AS COMPARED
TIME TO UNCOMPRESSED TO UNCOMPRESSED
128Kb/s Good 2,600 hrs. 1/10 10x
192Kb/s (VBR) High 1,750 hrs. 1/6 6X
320Kb/s Very high 500 hrs. 1/4 4X
Uncompressed Best 240 hrs. —
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(original CD quality)