To make a music disc for an mp3 player, Cddb, Options – HP DVD100I User Manual

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Technical Support Solutions Guide 10/25/01

HP RecordNow 3.0

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To make a music disc for an MP3 player:

1.1.

Click

Make a Music Disc

from the Main Menu.

Click

Make a Disc for an MP3

player. RecordNow automatically opens your

recorder drive.

NOTE:

If you wish to use a different disc drive to read your disc, click

Change

(See

Changing CD Recorder drives

on page

for more information.)

Insert a blank disc, then click

Selecting Audio Files

on page

for

information about searching your hard drive for music files.

Click Scan for Music to have RecordNow automatically search your hard drive for
valid music files.

NOTE:

You can control the size of audio files RecordNow searches for by selecting
the

Hide audio files shorter than

option from the

Options

button >

General

tab (see

Options

on page

). This feature speeds up the search

process by eliminating the short audio files such as the ones you hear
when Windows starts up or closes a program.

When RecordNow has located all of the valid music files on your system, you can
sort your music tracks by selecting a category from the

View

drop-down menu, in

the

Music on System

section.

Select the tracks you want to add to your music disc using one of the following
methods:
• Select the tracks you want from the

Music on System

window and click the

Add

button.

• Click the

Browse...

button, navigate to the tracks you wish to record, select

them, then click the

Add

button.

• Drag-and-drop tracks from the

Music on System

window on the left to the

playlist window on the right.

• Drag-and-drop tracks directly from Windows Explorer onto the RecordNow

playlist window. See

Dragging files from Windows Explorer to HP RecordNow

on page

for more information on this.

NOTE:

Clicking

Remove

deletes the highlighted track from your list but does not

affect any files on your hard drive.

Arrange the order of the tracks in your playlist window by either:
• Highlighting a track then using the green up or down arrows

or
• Highlighting a track and dragging it to the new position.

NOTE:

You can rename any track in the playlist window by selecting the track,
single clicking twice on the track name (or pressing <F2>), then typing the
new name. If your CD recorder supports CD text, your tracks will show the
new names.

Click

to begin recording your tracks.

Once the disc has been created, if you would like to make another disc with the
same track list, replace the newly recorded CD with a blank disc then click

Make

Another

10.

Click

Done

when you are finished recording.

11.

Remove the discs from your drives and store them in a safe place.

CDDB

HP RecordNow’s CDDB feature gathers artist, album and genre information about
your audio files. this can be helpful in sorting through your MP3 or WAV file
collection for your favorite songs or artists.

If HP RecordNow is configured to use CDDB, whenever HP RecordNow finds a new or
changed file, it will connect to CDDB via the Internet to download information
relevant to your new music file(s). HP RecordNow then uses this information to sort
your collection by artist, album, or genre.

Since this database is constantly growing, every time you access CDDB, your files are
updated with the latest information for that track.

Options

The

Options

feature allows you to customize how HP RecordNow performs your

recording operations. Click the

Options

button to open the Options dialog box, then

choose one of the option tabs to customize your settings.

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