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WAVELAB
23 – 596 Importing audio CD/DVD tracks
8. If required, you can select one file and click Play.
This will play the beginning of the track so that you can check it out.
• If you notice that playback starts too late into the track – i.e. a small part of
the beginning of the track is “cut out”, you can specify a pre-roll value to en-
sure that the entire beginning of the track is read.
This is done by selecting the option “Define reading of audio before and after CD track…”
on the Options menu, and entering the desired pre-roll value in the dialog that appears. You
can also specify a post-roll value to ensure that the entire end of the track is read. The tech-
nical reason behind this is that it’s not possible to locate, or position, to anything closer than
a frame – a block of data on a CD. Thus, if there is data in the middle of a frame, you might
have to specify a pre-roll or post-roll so that the whole frame is read. See “About frames,
positions, small frames and bits” on page 578 for more information.
9. Select as many tracks as you wish from the list.
You can use [Ctrl] and [Shift] to make multiple selections, or use the Select All button.
• You can also “drag and drop” one or more CD tracks onto WaveLab’s
desktop or into an Audio Montage to save them.
In the latter case, you can drop them in the clip list or directly into the track pane. For this to
work, the item “Enable Drag and Drop to Audio Montages” must be activated on the Op-
tions pop-up menu.
10. If you have only selected one file, you can import just a part of the track by
adjusting the start and end/length values.
The bar graph shows the part of the track that will be imported.
11. Click the Save button.
The track(s) are retrieved. Optionally, each is opened in its own window. This is specified in
the progress indication menu that appears during importing.
About the Freedb function
You need to be connected to the Internet to use the Freedb function.
Clicking the Freedb button opens a pop-up menu where you can use
some functions provided by Freedb to get information about your CDs.
Freedb maintains a worldwide database of CD information.
• When an audio CD is inserted, you can query the database to get the track
names of this CD, and more.
• If the CD is not yet recorded in the database, you have the option to become
a
participant by describing the CD and submitting your description to the da
ta base.
Find more information on this at www.freedb.org.