Bose Wave PCinteractive Operations Instructions download pdf (Page 25)

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Operating the CD Player/Recorder

By default, when you insert an audio CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive, the Wave/PC

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system automatically switches to the CD mode and starts playing the CD. To disable auto-

matic playing, remove the check next to “Automatically play CDs when inserted.”

Normally, when the Wave/PC system plays a CD for the ﬁrst time, the Wave/PC application

downloads detailed information for that CD from the CDDB website. If you do not want the

Wave/PC application to do this, remove the check next to “Automatically get CD track info

from the Internet.” If this option is unchecked, you can get CD information anytime by clicking

the Get Track Info button in the CD application window.

When you click the Get Track Info button, the CDDB Internet service may ﬁnd more than one

match for some of your song titles. To limit your request to only the ﬁrst match found, make

sure you select “Use ﬁrst match for CD track info.” If you choose not to select this option, you

will be prompted by CDDB to select one item from the list.

When this checkbox is selected, CDs are played using the analog output of the CD-ROM

drive. Otherwise, digital extraction is used when playing CDs. This setting does not affect the

CD recording process. However, when selected, simultaneous playback and recording of

CDs is not allowed.

The recording format drop list offers you a choice of audio ﬁle formats: Fixed MP3, Variable

MP3, or WAV (uncompressed). Fixed MP3 is recommended. It is more compatible with other

devices, such as portable MP3 players.

The recording quality drop list allows you to select the quality level for recording. The avail-

able levels vary according to the recording format you choose. In general, the higher the bit

rate, the better the sound quality but the larger the audio ﬁle size.

Quality Level

Bit Rate Encoding

(kilo-bits/sec.)

MBytes per

min. of play

Low 64 kbps 0.5MB/min.

Medium 128 kbps 1MB/min.

Medium-high 160 kbps 1.25MB/min.

High (default) 192 kbps 1.5MB/min.

Higher 256 kbps 2MB/min.

Highest 320 kbps 2.5MB/min.

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