Trans Music Manager for DENON Owner’s Manual Copyright (C) 2008 D&M Holdings Inc. All rights reserved.
Installing “Trans Music Manager” 1 Insert the included CD-ROM (Trans Music Manager) in your PC. The top menu screen is displayed. [Selectable items] Trans Music Manager : Installs “Trans Music Manager”. Open a brief manual : Opens the owner’s manual of “Trans Music Manager”. Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Swedish owner’s manual are located in the “doc” folder (select “Browse CD”). Browse CD : Opens the folders and applications on the included “Trans Music Manager” CD-ROM.
4 Click on “Next >”. [Selectable items] [Selectable items] Next > Carefully read the license agreement, and then click “Yes”. Yes : Continue to next step. : Agree.
5 6 Enter your “User Name” and “Company Name”, and then click “Next >”. Installation begins. [Selectable items] [Selectable items] Next > If you do not wish to specify a “Destination Folder”, simply click “Next >”. Next > : Continue to next step. b If you do not wish to specify anyone in particular in, “Install this application for:”, then set, “Anyone who uses this computer Gall usersH”. : Installation begins.
7 8 When installation has finished, click on “Finish”. [Selectable items] Finish Click on “Quit”. NOTE : Installation finishes. • When a USB flash drive is connected to the main unit, Denon accepts no liability in the event of the USB flash drive’s data loss or damage. Be sure to back up important data. • When re-installing Trans Music Manager, first uninstall the currently installed Trans Music Manager.
How to use Trans Music Manager About USB flash drive Before using Trans Music Manager 1 2 • Only use a USB flash drive. Do not connect any other USB device. • When a USB flash drive is connected to the main unit, Denon accepts no liability in the event of the USB flash drive’s data loss or damage. Be sure to back up important data. • The USB flash drive does not operate via a USB hub. • Operation and power supply are not guaranteed for all USB flash drives.
Auto Splitter (Auto MP3 Splitter) Analog recorded music files become a single file with the record’s A side or B side. Of course, this is not the only way you can enjoy the music. Files can more conveniently be split into individual tracks. To do this, use the Auto MP3 Splitterz function of Trans Music Manager. z: Analog records usually have a 2 ~ 3 second silent gap between tracks. The Auto MP3 function is a splitting function that detects these gaps to split files.
3 4 Select the file you want to split in the “Open” dialog box, and then click on “Open”. If necessary, set “Level Threshold”, “Duration” and “Offset”. b The default values are set. [Settable Items] Level Threshold : Set the volume level for detection of silence. (Setting range: 1 ~ 100, default values: 50) For a file containing little noise, lower the setting (closer to 0). For a file with a lot of noise, raise the setting. Duration Offset : Set the continuous period of the silent parts.
5 When you have finished setting, click on “Split”. 7 Click on “×” to end setting. Splitting begins. 6 When splitting is finished, the “Split Finished!” message is displayed, so click on “OK”. 8 Click on “All Audio” in “Media Library”. The split file is displayed.
About split files • Splitting is performed in order of the filenames (“AUDIO000.mp3”, “AUDIO001.mp3” …) stored in the USB flash drive used by the main unit. When these files are split by Trans Music Manager’s Auto MP3 Splitter or Manual Splitter, a new folder is created; the split files are given new names and stored in “My Documents¥My Music¥DENON¥”. For example, when splitting the file “AUDIO000.mp3”, the name if the split file becomes “AUDIO000_ 01.mp3”, “AUDIO000_02.mp3”, etc.
Manual MP3 Splitter If there is too much noise or in the case of a continuous medley composed of multiple tracks, when the track gap is short or for any other reason the Auto MP3 Splitter operation may not possible, use the Manual MP3 Splitter while listening to the playback sound. 1 2 Select “Manual MP3 Splitter” from the “Menu”. 11 Click on “···”.
3 Select the file you want to split in the “Open” dialog box, and then click on “Open”. 4 If the waveform graphic is displayed, click “1”. Playback begins. 5 Waveform Graphic 12 Click “2” at the split position. Pause playback.
6 8 Click on “Mark” to insert a split point. The split point is displayed on the split list. When you have finished setting a split point, click on “Split”. Splitting begins. Split point Split list b Without playing a track, you can move the slider to search for the track changeover point. b When adjusting the split point, clicking on “..0” plays back approximately 2 seconds before the stop point. Also, clicking on “1..” plays back approximately 2 seconds after the stop point.
10 Click on “×” to end setting. 11 Click on “All Audio” in “Media Library”. • The splitting time depends on the length of tracks and number of splits. The longer the track, or the greater the number of splits, the more splitting time it takes. • Files of over 60 minutes in length cannot be split manually. The split file is displayed.
Using the MusicID function Gracenote musicIDSM music recognition service Using the MusicID function to append track information to files music recognition service” is a service offered by Gracenote® that is commonly “Gracenote MusicID known as CDDB®. The service lets you automatically obtain CD titles, artist names, track names, etc., in text format by connecting to the Gracenote® server on the Internet. SM MusicID can be used to identify tracks as albums or as individual tracks.
2 3 Right click on a file you have selected, and select “MusicID: Identify tracks as albums”. Operate the MusicID function, and data collection begins. b You can also select “MusicID: Identify tracks as albums” from “MusicID” in “Media Library” . 16 Select album from “Step 1: Select matching album”.
4 5 Manually select tracks that are not identified automatically. q Select 1 track from “Tracks not matched from your selection”. w Select the relevant tracks from “Tracks on selected album”. e Click on to “←” to fill up the “Tracks matched from your selection” column. r Repeat q ~ e for all tracks. w Click on “Apply” to set the result. The MusicID result is displayed in “Media Library”.
Identifying tracks individually 1 2 Select files you want to process with MusicID in “Media Library”. 18 Left click on “MusicID”, and select “Identify selected tracks”.
3 4 Select matching track information from “Current file list”. 19 Click on “Apply” to set the result. The MusicID result is displayed in “Media Library”.
In the following cases, track names may not be attached even if you perform MusicID. ⋅ When not registered in the CD database of Gracenote, Inc. ⋅ When the analog record source has not been converted to CD. ⋅ When converted to CD, if noise reduction is applied or tracks have been edited. In such cases, enter the track names by the following procedure. q Right click on the file you selected in Step 1, and select “Edit Tags and Filenames…”. The “Tag and File Editor” starts. w Enter individual items.
Embedding accessed track information in files Even if a track name is identified by MusicID, an update in Media Library alone will not be saved to the file. Also, with players other than Trans Music Manager, the track information will not be displayed during file play. Embed track information in files by the following procedure. 1 2 Select a file in “Media Library” for which you want to embed track information.
3 4 Click on “From Media Library” . Click on “Write Tags”. Track information of Media Library is displayed. b The changed part is displayed in red characters. If necessary, you can also edit tags. b You can perform this operation in “Media Library”. q Right click on a file you have selected. w Select “Write Info to File Tags”.
Changing the filename Since track information (tag information) is embedded, the file information is displayed when played on another music player. However, since it is difficult to search when the filename is AUDIO003_01.mp3, etc., rewrite with a filename that is easily recognizable. 1 2 Select a file from “Media Library” for which you want to change the filename from among files with embedded track information (tag information).
3 4 5 Click on “File Renamer” . Click on “Rename Files” . The filename is changed. b If you want to change to a filename of different format from the existing template, click “Editor”. “Filename Template Editor” is displayed, and you can change the filename to the one you want. Select a filename template you like from “Select Renaming Template”.
6 Click on “Close” to end setting .
Storing tracks in USB flash drive Store tracks in USB flash drive when you change file names. 1 2 Click “Devices” in “Media Library”. 26 Click on the target device.
3 4 Select the tracks you want to copy. Drag and drop tracks for copying into the black box to the right of “Devices”.
Deleting tracks When you perform Auto MP3 Splitter or Manual MP3 Splitter operations, the split tracks are displayed in Media Library. You can delete these split tracks. Deleting tracks from Media Library 1 2 Select a track you want to delete in “Media Library”. Right click on the selected files, and select “Remove from Media Library”. The track is deleted from Media Library.
Tracks are deleted from Media Library and your personal computer 1 2 Select a track you want to delete in “Media Library”. 29 Right click on the selected files, and select “Delete from disk”. Tracks are completely deleted from Media Library and your personal computer.
