® Waves System
V 2.0 - 2007
I.D. AL - SP203 - Professional MP3 audio player - Manual
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Quick user’s guide for CDex
.
1 – Launch the program and select the Option
menu to configure the software.
General
- You can leave all the default settings. This has
no effect on the player, as it doesn’t manage ID3
tags.
- Adjust volume (normalize) if the Audio CD is
incorrectly mastered (too low or too high volume).
This will avoid future volume discrepancies
between files.
It’s a better choice to activate normalization to
avoid sound level changes in your musical library.
File name
- Format: Up to your wishes, this set the format for the file and directory names that will be created
starting from the CD’s information. In order
to know the various formats, click on the
«?» button. You can name your files as you
want. Don’t forget that this name will be the
one displayed on the player. For a better
reading comfort, avoid too long names.
CD ROM
This configuration menu manages the CD
player from your PC as well as the way to
rip the Audio CD. If it’s not correctly
configured, you’ll have no sound. It’s a better
choice not to change too much settings in
this page.
Encoder
- Codec used to encode the file extracted
from the CD. You have different choices
and, it’s up to you to choose a codec or
another (depending on c ompression,
rendering, size, loss on signal, etc). We chose here the MP3 format.
- Select Lame MP3 Encoder (version 1.26 engine 3.91 MMX) or higher, still the best MP3 encoder (up to
today) with a good operational speed and rendering final quality.
- Encoding options:
Bitrate: Applied bit rate or interval, depending of the encoding type. We suggest a value of 128 (minimal
and maximal). You can choose other values to match the desired sound quality. The player can read any
file from 8kBd to 320kBd. 128 kBd allows a compression factor of 10 (it means the file size will be 10
times smaller on the disk) without noticeable quality loss.
