CDMagic - The Main Window

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The Context-Menu of Title-Listbox:

     
   
     

What is what:

The following elements are explained:
'Refresh'-Button:
Press this button if you have inserted a (new) CD in your CDROM-drive.
'CDDB'-Button:
By pressing this button a logon to the CDDB-server is made and the title and artist names are retrieved from there. Note that the telephone line is NOT hung up by CDMagic, nor is the line connected (dialed) by CDMagic.
'Sampler'-Button:
If your CD is a sampler (i.e. the tracks have different artists) then you should press this button. You are presented the Sampler-Window where you can provide information about where CDMagic can locate the artist name and the title name.
'Artist'-Entryfield:
Name of the artist of the CD (from CDDB). May be edited before ripping.
'Volume'-Entryfield:
Name of the CD ('volume', from CDDB). May be edited before ripping.
'Collection'-Entryfield:
The term 'collection' is used in cases where your CD is part of a package of multiple CDs which are sold as an entity (e.g. "The Beatles Capitol Years", in 4 CDs). When processing each of these CDs individually you can specify for all CDs of this package a common 'collection'-name. So later (in the Aggregate-View) you can look at a special collection in total and have all contained CDs (volumes) at one glance.
The 'Collection'-Entryfield is not supplied by CDDB but may be entered by you.
'category'-Entryfield:
Category of the CD which is supplied by CDDB. May be edited before ripping.
'Year'-Entryfield:
Year of the CD. May be edited before ripping. If the track from the CD have different release dates (as is whith samplers) then you can specify e.g. 197? for a range of 1970 to 1979.
Track-Titel List-Box:
In this list box the tracks of the CD are displayed. After the CDDB-processing is done the track titles change from 'track01', 'track02', ... to the actual track titles.
For further processing (e.g. ripping, encoding etc.) you can invoke the
context menu (click right mouse button over the Track Title List Box).
Log-Window:
In this list box at the bottom of the Main Window messages are displayed during every kind of processing. Some messages are error messages, some are warnings and most of them are pure hints.
The Log window is reset at each program start. You can save the Log Window's content by clicking the right mouse button over the window and choose 'save Log Window to file'.
If a line in the Log Window displays an error you can doubleclick on it to display the whole text. In addition a help-button is displayed where you probably might get explanation about return codes from.
The Context-Menu of the Track-Titel List-Box:
By clicking the right mouse button anywhere within the Track-Title List Box its context menu is displayed. These functions can be chosen:
  • Play
    Play the track which is currently under the mouse cursor (directly from CD).
  • Stop
    Stop the currently played track.
  • Select all
    Select all tracks.
  • De-select all
    De-Select all tracks.
  • Insert 'empty' titles (no soundfiles produced)
    You have the choice to store titles in the CDMagic database without producing a sound file (i.e. without ripping and encoding).
    This may be useful for informational purposes. See also 'Rip/convert selected and store empty unselected' (below).
  • Rip and mark for conversion
    The selected tracks are fetched from the CD (being 'ripped' or 'grabbed') and stored in WAV-format on harddisk (in the WAV-path which you specified in the Settings-Window). Also an entry is stored in the database for that track, containing all track data such as title, name of artist, CD-name ('volume') etc. The database entry is marked as 'still to be converted to MP3'.
    To do this conversion, see Main Menu item 'Convert to MP3'.
  • Rip/convert selected and store empty unselected
    This function combines the two previously described functions 'Insert empty titles' and 'Rip and mark for conversion'. The selected titles are ripped and stored marked 'to be converted' while the unselected titles are stored in the database only, without being ripped or encoded..
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