Copying audio samples from audio CD

This functions allows very fast copying of sound without any quality loss from an audio CD to your hard disk.

Insert CD and call up Record Dialog

1. In Wings Vioso RX, open the required project or create a new one. See  Project Wizards.

2. Insert an audio CD into your CD ROM drive. If the Windows Media Player should start up a little later, terminate it.

You can prevent the Media Player from starting up by holding the Shift key for a few seconds while inserting the CD into the CD ROM drive or by disabling "Autoplay" in Windows. See Software cnfiguration.

3. In the main menu click Media Pool and select Create new files.

4. In the left field, click on Audio CD. If this entry is not visible, click on the plus sign next to Audio.

5. In the centre of the pop-up dialog you will find a list of audio tracks of this CD starting with 01.

Specifying target directory and name

1. If you want to change the target directory for saving your files, click on Change target directory and select or create the required folder.

2. You can track the title names from the Internet database. To do so, click on .

3. Or you enter a name for the Basic file name, e.g. the abbreviation of a CD title.  In combination with the number, the tracks are then clearly defined.

4. To enter individual names for the tracks, highlight a name on the list and click it once more to enter a new name.

Listening to and copying track samples

1. Highlight a title and click to listen to the sample

2. If you click any other titles while playing back, playback changes over to the selected titles.

3. Click on to terminate playback.

4. Highlight the title you want to copy (... one or several titles).

5. Below the Record button click and select whether audio files are to be saved as Wave or MP3 files. Wave format is uncompressed and requires more storage capacity. For further sound editing, however, this format is the better choice.

6. Click on . Saving as MP3 format requires the following entries...  

   MP3 encoder (Lame DLL is recommended) and a data rate. Usually, 128 kbits/s should be sufficient for CD quality. If you are not satisfied with this quality you may improve the result by choosing a higher data rate. If no MP3 Encoder can be selected. ...you need to first install an MP3 encoder on your computer. If you want to find out how this is done, click here. Difference between Encoder (direct) and Encoder (via wave file). The encoders listed under Encoder (direct) will generate MP3 files without saving any temporary data on hard disk. Encoders (via wave file) will temporarily save the sound track as wave file on the hard disk, use it to produce MP3 files and finally delete the wave file again. You only need to make sure that the drive used for storage of temporary files has enough memory capacity. If necessary change this folder under Options – Global Options – Save.

7. The dialog allows you to keep track of the copying progress. After copying , the copied titles can be found in the Media Pool.

Copying track portions

1. Mark a title and move the slider in field Portion to the beginning of the required portion. Click on .

2. Move the slider to the end of the portion and click on .  These portion markers can also be set while playing back.

3. Use keys and to jump to the beginning or the end of the portion while playing back to check whether the chosen portion is correct. Choose a large enough portion which leaves you enough scope for editing the sound object later on.

4. Click on . The dialog allows you to keep track of the progress. The copied titles can be found in the Media Pool.

5. Click to delete the portion markers.

• The audio CD can be ejected or the drawer be opened by clicking Eject CD. Click this button again while holding the Ctrl key to close the drawer again.

• Media files are not saved in the Media Pool, but only the "locations" where media files can be found on the hard disk. So Wings Vioso RX only remembers where on the hard disk a file is located. If such a file required for a project was deleted from the hard disk or moved to a different location, Wings Vioso RX can no longer find it and claims that it is missing.

What would you like to do next?

...Create media files in a different way

...Place objects in the timeline

...Edit objects