Copyright: Visual Help ® 1993-1994 Firas Bushnaq


Inhalt
Contents

General hints

CD-ROM informations

CD-ROM control buttons

WAVE control buttons

CD-ROM title, artist and track names editing and changing

Recording informations

ABOUT and HELP Buttons

Registration window

Order form

Main window of CD-REC

With clicking into the parts of the picture you will get the requested informations.


Allgemeines
General Hints

What is CD-REC

CD-REC enables you to record parts of an audio-CD through a soundcard and save them as a WAVE file.

How works CD-REC

CD-REC does NOT read the data digital from the audio-CD. Instead is uses a soundcard for the recording. The reason for this roundabout way (which also causes quality loss) is that the digital reading of audio information is not possible with all CD-ROM drives.
To get CD-REC compatibel to as much CD-ROM drives and Soundcards as possible, the program uses only functions which Windows serves. This is the reason why a record could only be as great as the real available memory. The Windows-functions allows only the use of real available memory for recording and uses a double-buffer method for recording. So only about the half of real memory is available for recording. The text behind "Max. Record Mem" shows how much memory could be used for recording..

Connecting a Soundcard to your CD-ROM drive

To record audio data from your CD-ROM drive you have to connect the drive with the soundcard. There are several solutions for this connection. On most CD-ROM drives you find an AUDIO OUT connector on the back of the drive. For Soundcards which have a own input for audio from a CD-ROM drive you have to buy (or build by yourself) a cable if none was delivered with your Soundcard or CD-ROM drive. With Soundcards which have no extra input for CD-ROM audio you need a cable which connects the audio output of the drive with the LINE IN connector of the Soundcard. For exact informations about such a cable and the connector please consult the handbooks of the Soundcard and the CD-ROM drive.

Selecting the audio input

If you have a soundcard which has more than one recording input, you have to select the correct input for recording from your CD-ROM drive. This is done with a mixer program. This program should have come with your soundcard. E.g. the mixer program for the Soundblaster Pro is called SBPro Mixer.

License Agreement and Warranty Disclaimer

You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before using this software.  Use of this software indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with them, do not use the software.

Shareware Version

You are hereby licensed to:  use the Shareware Version of the software for a 21 day evaluation period; make as many copies of the Shareware version of this software and documentation as you wish; give exact copies of the original Shareware version to anyone; and distribute the Shareware version of the software and documentation in its unmodified form via electronic means.  There is no charge for any of the above.
You are specifically prohibited from charging, or requesting donations, for any such copies, however made; and from distributing the software and/or documentation with other products (commercial or otherwise) without prior written permission.
Unregistered use of CD-REC after the 21-day evaluation period is in violation of federal copyright laws.

Evaluation and Registration

This is not free software.  This license allows you to use this software for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 21 days.  If you use this software after the 21 day evaluation period a registration fee of $20 (30 DM) is required.  Payments must be in German DM, and should be sent to
Bernd Giesecke
Erlachstr. 21
74223 Flein
Germany
Payment could also be done through remittance to the following account::
Bank	Volksbank Flein Talheim eG
Bankleitzahl 	620 626 43
Kontonummer 	58565019
Kontoinhaber 	Bernd Giesecke
Please send the registration form additional and remark there that the payment is done through remittance.
Registration could also be done via the Shareware Registration database. The Registration ID is 1326. Just go SWREG to register. When payment is received you will be sent a registered copy of the latest version of CD-REC.
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"CREDIT CARD ORDERS ONLY -

"You can order with MC, Visa, Amex, or Discover from Public (software) Library by calling 800-2424-PsL or 713-524-6394 or by FAX to 713-524-6398 or by CIS Email to 71355,470. You can also mail credit card orders to PsL at P.O.Box 35705, Houston, TX 77235-5705.

"THE ABOVE NUMBERS ARE FOR CREDIT CARD ORDERS ONLY.
"THE AUTHOR OF THIS PROGRAM CANNOT BE REACHED AT THESE NUMBERS.

"Any questions about the status of the shipment of the order, refunds, registration options, product details, technical support, volume discounts, dealer pricing, site licenses, non-credit card orders, etc, must be directed to
Bernd Giesecke
Erlachstrasse 21
74223 Flein
Germany
Tel.: +49 (7131) 580121
Fax.: +49 (7131) 580122

"To insure that you get the latest version, PsL will notify us the day of your order and we will ship the product directly to you. The item/product number of CD-REC is 14334. Please note this on your order or tell the operator this number when calling PsL."
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One registered copy of CD-REC may be dedicated to a single person who uses the software on one or more computers or to a single workstation used by multiple people.

You may access the registered version of CD-REC through a network, provided that you have obtained individual licenses for the software covering all workstations that will access the software through the network.

Disclaimer of Warranty

This software and the accompanying files are sold "as is" and without warranties as to performance of merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied. Because of the various hardware and software environments into which CD-REC may be put, no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered.
Good data processing procedure dictates that any program be thoroughly tested with non-critical data before relying on it.  The user must assume the entire risk of using the program.  Any liability of the seller will be limited exclusively to product replacement or refund of purchase price.

How to reach the author of this application

You could reach me for hints, problems or questions on the following connections:
1) Via Mail:
   Bernd Giesecke
   Erlachstr. 21
   74223 Flein
   Germany
2) Via Fax or Telephone
   Tel.: +49 7131 580121 past 20o'clock central european time
   Fax.: +49 7131 580122
3) Via CompuServ
   Send your mail to 100010,3465  Bernd Giesecke

CD-ROM Access functions

The CD-ROM access is made via the Software Toolkit QUICK-CD from Mark E. O'Brien. QUICK-CD is a software development kit that provides access to CD-ROM data and audio discs in the Windows environment. For more informations about this toolkit contact:
Mark E. O'Brien
Oman Software
27 Trowbridge Street, Suite 2
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Telephone: 617-864-2775
Compuserv: 70312,303

Help File

This help file was created with the program Visual Help from WinWare Inc.
Visual Help is a development tool which allows to create help files very easy. For more informations about this tool please contact the author of Visual Help:
Firas Bushnaq
WinWare
P.O. Box 2923
Mission Viejo CA 92690
USA
CompuServe: 70272,1656


CDINFO
CD-ROM informations

In this part you find informations about the available CD-ROM drives and the name of the CD, the artist and the names of the tracks.

Select CD-ROM Drive

Artist &Title

Available Tracks


SELECT
Select CD-ROM Drive

In this listbox you find all CD-ROM drives that are installed in your system. Select the drive in which you have inserted your audio CD. A change of the CD will be recognized automatically.


CD
Artist & Title

In this two textboxes you will find the name of the artist and the title of the cd-rom. Both will be taken from the musicbox.ini file. To get the artist and title of the cd-rom you have to enter them in the musicbox application, which is delivered with the Multimedia Extensions for Microsoft Windows 3.1. More informations how to enter artist and title of a cd-rom you could find in the manuals and helpfiles for the musicbox application. CD-Informations which are created with the POCKET CD application will also be accepted. POCKET CD is shipped with the PRO AUDIO Soundcards from Media Vision.
The entries could also be edited from CD-REC. More informations about editing could be found under

CD-ROM title, artist and track names editing and saving


INFOCONTROL
CD-ROM title, artist and track names editing and saving

With this listbox and the SAVE CD INFO Button you could edit and save informations about the audio CD.

Changing of artist and CD title

Changing the tracknames

Button SAVE CD INFO


CD1
Changing of artist and title

The name of the artist and the title of the CD could be changed with typing into the editbox. The above editbox contains the name of the artist, the lower editbox contains the title of the CD. The changes will be saved with clicking on the SAVE CD INFO button. The artist and name of the CD will be automatically shown when you insert an audio CD.


TRACKNAME
Editing the tracknames

This editbox shows the name of the actual selected track. The name could be edited in this field. Changes could be saved with pushing the button SAVE CD INFO.


SAVEINFO
Button SAVE CD INFO

If the artist, title of CD or tracknames are changed, the changes could be saved with pushing this button. The data of the CD will be saved in a file which is called MUSICBOX.INI. The used format equals the format which the Microsoft program MUSICBOX.EXE uses. (Musicbox was delivered with the Multimedia Extensions for Windows is no more available).


TRACKS
Available Tracks

This listbox shows all available tracks on the current cd-rom. Here you select the track from which you want to record sound. The titles of the tracks will be taken from the musicbox.ini file. If you have entered the titles in the musicbox application, you will get the real titles of the tracks, otherwise you will get only a list which sounds like TRACK 1, TRACK 2, ...
More informations how to enter the titles of the tracks you could find in the manuals and helpfiles for the musicbox application. CD-Informations which are created with the POCKET CD application will also be accepted. POCKET CD is shipped with the PRO AUDIO Soundcards from Media Vision.
The entries could also be changed from within CD-REC. More informations in

CD-ROM title, artist and tracknames changing and saving


CDCONTROL
CD-ROM Kontroll Buttons

These buttons controls all CD-ROM functions

Play Track

Stop Track

Forward

Back

To Start

Mark Begin

Mark End

Clear Mark


CDPLAY
Play

This button starts playing the selected track.


CDSTOP
Stop

This button stops playing the selected track.


CDFORW
Forward

With this button you could wind forward 5 seconds while playing a track.


CDBACK
Back

This button rewinds the current track 5 seconds from the current position while playing a track.


CDSTART
To Start

This button rewinds the current track to the beginning and plays it again.


CDBEGIN
Mark Begin

Pushing this button marks the current position of a track as the point where to begin recording.


CDEND
Mark End

Pushing this button marks the current position of a track as the point where to end recording.


CDCLEAR
Clear Mark

Pushing this button clears the markings.


WAVECONTROL
WAVE controll buttons

With these buttons and checkboxes the recording is controled.

Stereo

16 Bit

Select Sampling Rate

Play Wave

Start Record

Save Record

Stop Wave


Stereo

With this checkbox you could select stereo recording. It will only have an effect if you have an audio card which is able to record in stereo.


BIT
16 Bit

This checkbox activates the recording with 16 bit quality. It could only be activated if your soundcard allows recording with 16 bits.


RATE
Select Sampling Rate

Select in this listbox the sampling rate you want for recording. The listbox will display only the sampling rates which your audio card supports.


WPLAY
Play Wave

If you have recorded a sound then you could control your record with this button. It will play what you have recorded last.


WREC
Start Record

Starts recording a sound.


WSAVE
Save Record

This buttons opens a dialogbox in which you should enter the name under which you want to save your recorded sound.

In This dialogbox the name and path for saving the record could be entered.


WSTOP
Stop Wave

Stops a running record. The whole recorded data will be destroyed.


RECORDCONTROL
Aufnahmeinformationen

These textfields show the actual playing state, the marked area and the available memory.

Rec Time

Play Length

Rec Length

Max. Record Mem


Rec Time

Rec Time shows the length of the area which is marked with MARK BEGIN and MARK END. As long as the start for recording is not marked Rec Time equals Play Length. Rec Time is shown in milliseconds and refreshed every 100 ms.


PLAYTIME
Play Length

During playing a track the field Play Time shows the actual playing time. During recording the content of this field runs from the marked begin to the marked end. The time is shown in milliseconds is refreshed every 100 ms.


RECLEN
Rec Length

Rec Length shows the needed memory for the recording area which is marked with MARK BEGIN and MARK END. As long as the start for recording is not marked Rec Length equals Play Length converted into kilobytes. Rec Length is shown in kilobytes and refreshed every 100 ms.

Converting is done with the followin formula:

Stereo = on	--> S=2
Stereo = off	--> S=1
16 Bit = on	--> B = 2
16 Bit = off	--> B = 1
Samplingrate = 11.025kHz	--> R = 11025
Samplingrate = 22.050kHz	--> R = 22050
Samplingrate = 44.100kHz	--> R = 44100

Length in kB = S * B * R * Rec Time / 1000 / 1024

The maximum length for a recording could also be calculated with this formula:

Max. Rec Time = Available Memory in kByte / S / B / R / 2 *1000


MAXLEN
Max. Record Mem

This field shows how much memory is available for recording. This value is calculated of the free real memory divided through 2. Only real RAM memory could be used for recording, no diskspace and no virtual memory.
See also

General Hints


ABOUTINFO
ABOUT und HELP Buttons

This buttons start the about window and this helpfile. The textfield under this buttons shows the last action CD-REC has done.

About

Help

Info Feld


About

This window shows informations about the programm, the versionnumber and the registered User.


Help

This buttons start the help file


ACTION
Info Field

This textfield shows the last action CD-REC has done. Possible messages are:
Helping	The helpfile is started
CD-REC ends	CD-REC will shutdown
Checking drive	CD-REC checks drive if an audio CD is inserted
Accepted CD	CD-REC has found an audio CD
Recording end	Recording is done
Wave playing end	Playing of the last record is done
Track changed	Track has been changed
Drive changed	Drive has been changed
CD info changed	Informations about the audio CD have been changed
Sampling rate changed	Sampling rate was changed
Stereo/Mono changed	Stereo was selected or deselected
Bitwidth changed	16 Bit was selected or deselected
Playing	Playing of last record is started
CD stopped	Playing of a track is done
Begin marked	Start of recording area is marked
End marked	End of recording area is marked
Marking cleared	Start and End of recording area are deleted
Winding CD	Playing position is shifted 5 seconds forwards
Rewinding CD	Playing position is shifted 5 seconds back
Track restarted	Track will be replayed from marked start
Playing Wave	Last record will be played
Recording stopped	Recording is stopped or done
Recording	Recording runs
Saving Wave	Record is saved


REGISTER
Registration Window

This window will be shown during starting of CD-REC until you have registered the program and entered the correct registration code. Informations about registration and costs could be found under:

General Hints

Registration will be started with pushing the OK button. The needed codes will be delivered from the author after paying the registration fee. If you are not a registered user of the program and want only to evaluate the program you could enter the program with pushing the button CANCEL or ABBRECHEN

The registration code and the name of the registered user must be entered exactly as deliverd by the author. After entering data in a field the field must be leaved with the tabulator key.

For more informations about the entry fields just click into the fields in the above picture with your mouse.

Name

Registration number

OK Button

CANCEL Button


REGNAME
Name of the registered user

In the field
Please enter your name:
you have to enter the name of the registered user exactly as shown on the registration card, even if the name is written wrong on the card. Spaces, hyphens or other special characters must be entered exactly as on the registration card.
After the name no additional spaces must be entered. The field must be leaved with pressing the tabulator key.


REGNUMBER
Registration number

In the field
Please enter your registration number:
you have to enter the registration number exactly as shown on the registration card. All letters must be entered as capital letters.
After the number no additional spaces must be entered. The field must be leaved with pressing the tabulator key.


REGOK
OK Button in the registration window

After entering the name and the registration number the window could be leaved with pressing the OK button.
Please remind that the entry fields must be leaved with the tabulator key to make sure that the entries are taken over correctly.

If all entries are correct the following window will be shown:

After pressing the OK buttons the program will start and the registration window won't be shown anymore. if the registration informations (which are saved in a hidden file) should be lost, the registration information could be entered again.

If the entries are incorrect the following window will be shown:

After pressing the OK button you will be back at the window with the registration request. If you have made an error during entering the registration data you could retry the registration with pushing the OK button again.


REGCANCEL
CANCEL Button in the registration window

With pushing the CANCEL buttons you could leave the window without registration.


Order
Registration form

Print registration form

                         CD-REC Order Form

To order CD-REC, please supply the information that is requested
below and mail this form along with your remittance to:

                           Bernd Giesecke
                           Erlachstr. 21
                           74223 Flein
                           GERMANY

To register under CompuServe simply go to the Shareware Registration
database. The Registration ID for CD-REC is 1326. Just GO SWREG.

Name:

Company:

Title:

Address:

City, State:
Zip:

Country:

To help us track our distribution, please specify where you obtained your
evaluation copy of CD-REC.

Bulletin board:

Shareware distributor:

Other - please specify:

If you have any comments or would like to offer suggestions, please use
this space.  I welcome your input.  (Use reverse side if needed)

Bernd Giesecke, please send me:

  _____ Copies of CD-REC, Version 1.34 @ $15.00  ...

        Diskette format  ____ 5.25"    ____ 3.5"

        Shipping and Handling  $5.00             ...$
        Germany $4.00
        All other countries $5.00

        All funds in German Marks (DM) Total     ...$

Upon receipt of your order, Bernd Giesecke will send you a diskette with a
registered version of CD-REC and your personal registration code.

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"CREDIT CARD ORDERS ONLY -

"You can order with MC, Visa, Amex, or Discover from Public (software)
Library by calling 800-2424-PsL or 713-524-6394 or by FAX to 713-524-6398
or by CIS Email to 71355,470. You can also mail credit card orders to PsL
at P.O.Box 35705, Houston, TX 77235-5705.

"THE ABOVE NUMBERS ARE FOR CREDIT CARD ORDERS ONLY.
"THE AUTHOR OF THIS PROGRAM CANNOT BE REACHED AT THESE NUMBERS.

"Any questions about the status of the shipment of the order, refunds,
registration options, product details, technical support, volume discounts,
dealer pricing, site licenses, non-credit card orders, etc, must be
directed to
Bernd Giesecke
Erlachstrasse 21
74223 Flein
Germany
Tel.: +49 (7131) 580121
Fax.: +49 (7131) 580122

"To insure that you get the latest version, PsL will notify us the day
of your order and we will ship the product directly to you. The item/product
number of CD-REC is 14334. Please note this on your order or tell the
operator this number when calling PsL."
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