[access-uk] Re: SOME Cdex QUESTIONS

  • From: "Kevin Lloyd" <kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:58:21 +0100

SOME Cdex QUESTIONSHi Ian.

I'm still using CDEX version 1.51 although I believe the current version is 
2.0.  Don't see any point in upgrading if you're only using MP3 format as I 
think the later versions just provided support for a few more file types.

Interested to see you had a bit of a problem ripping tracks from a CD as CDEX 
is one of the easiest programs to use to do this.  I've pasted some rather old 
notes below but maybe you'll find them of some use.

Using CDEX to rip CD tracks to your hard drive

1.. Place your CD into any of your CD-ROM drives. Hold down the shift key

when the CD drawer is being closed to prevent the CD starting to play.

2.. Start CDEX from the desktop or programs menu.

3.. Your screen reader will start to announce the track listing of the CD

as "Audio Track 1, Audio Track 2", etc.

4.. CDEX can get the artist, album title and track titles from the CDDB by

connecting to the internet but you will first need to make the following

changes:

A.. Press F4 to open the Settings dialogue

B.. Press shift tab and then right arrow until you reach the Remote CDDB

tab

C.. Press tab until you reach a control requesting you to enter your

e-mail address

D.. Key in your e-mail address and then tab to OK

E.. If you'd like CDEX to get CD information automatically each time you

start CDEX, then check the auto connect checkbox.

F.. Press enter on the OK button to confirm your changes

5.. To retrieve artist name, album title and track titles from the CDDB 
manually,

do the following:

A.. Press alt + D to enter the CDDB menu

B.. Press down arrow until you reach "Read remote CDDB"

C.. Press enter and CDEX will query the CDDB and pull back the artist

name, album title and track titles

D.. If you'd like to store this information so that you don't need to

retrieve from the CDDB again for this CD, press alt + D to enter the CDDB

menu and then arrow down until you reach "save to local CDDB". Pressing

enter at this point will save the CD information on your computer.

6.. CDEX can normalise the volume of all tracks being ripped. This will

result in your tracks being set to the same volume even if they are taken

from CD's where the volumes vary considerably. To make CDEX normalise the

volume of ripped tracks, make the following changes:

A.. Press F4 to enter the Settings dialogue

B.. You will probably be placed on the encoder tab but if not, press

shift and tab and then use the right and left arrow keys until you reach the

encoder tab

C.. Press tab until you reach the control for "on-the-fly MP3 encoding"

and press the spacebar to uncheck this

D.. Press tab until you reach the encoder tab again and use the left

arrow key until you reach the general tab

E.. Press tab until you reach the control "normalise volume" and press

the spacebar to check this

F.. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm your changes

7.. To rip all of the tracks to WAV format, press F8.

8.. To rip all of the tracks to MP3 format, press F9.

9.. If you don't want all tracks to be ripped from the CD, use the up and

down arrow keys in the list of track titles until you reach the track you

want before pressing F8 or F9. If you want to select a number of tracks,

you can do this using the standard windows keystrokes of shift with the up

or down arrow to select contiguous tracks and control with the up and down

arrow keys to unselect tracks.

10.. You can change the default folder where CDEX will output your ripped

tracks by making the following changes:

A.. Press F4 to enter the settings dialogue

B.. Press shift and tab and then left arrow until you reach the

filenames tab

C.. Press tab until you reach the WAV>MP3 control

D.. Press enter to open a browse folders dialogue.

E.. Select the folder where you'd like CDEX to place your ripped tracks

and open the folder by pressing the right arrow key

F.. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm the choice

of output folder

G.. Press tab until you reach OK and press enter to confirm your changes

11.. You can change the format of the track names and the folders that

CDEX will create when ripping by making the following changes:

A.. Press F4 to enter the settings dialogue

B.. Press shift and tab and then left arrow until you reach the

filenames tab

C.. Tab once to the output file format and directories edit field. If

you are confident with the naming conventions, you can edit your preferences

directly into this field. Otherwise, tab once more and press the output

file format and directories button. Use your JAWS or screen review cursor

to read the options available. In brief, the main options of interest are:

%1 Artist information

%2 Album information

%3 Track number

%4 Track name

%5 CD Volume ID

%6 CDDB ID

%7 Track number with leading zero

The \ character will create a subfolder. For example, if placed between %1

and %2, the CD album titles will be output in a subfolder under the artist

name.

D.. Tab to the ok button and press enter to confirm the new settings.


Kevin
E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian Macrae 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 2:45 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] SOME Cdex QUESTIONS


  Having spent ages grappling with iTunes and ways of enabling its use by us, 
the Zen stone has finally given me the impetus I needed to give up and look at 
more straightforward solutions.  I've been reacquainting myself with Cdex and 
have the following questions.

  1.  The version I have is 1.5.1.  What is the current version? 

  2.  Are there any significant advantages to upgrading to a newer version?  
Will it look or behave differently and will that outweigh any additional 
functionality it may have?

  3.  I've found saving a bit of a faff though have achieved it.  Is there a 
direct way of saving from Cdex either to the computer or straight to an 
external device such as the Zen?

  4.  Finally, Is there any way of turning all of the iTunes files I've created 
into straight MP3 format or will I have to rip all the disks again using CDex?

  Thanks in advance. 

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