Consolidate your collections

Consolidate your CD or music collections

A single layer DVD disc of 4.7GB can hold over 6 CDs, a dual layer DVD disc of 8.5GB can hold about 12 CDs. This can be very convenient to :

Reduce the storage space used by your collections or to reorganize them into compilations
Take them on the move, e.g. into your car

Steps to make a DVD-Audio disc from a collection of CD

DVD-Audio disc can have up to 9 groups, each with up to 99 tracks for a total maximum of 314 tracks. Repeat the following steps for each CD you want to rip.

Step 1 : View the tracks available on the CD.

Step 2 : Select the track(s) you want to rip from the CD, then click the Rip icon.

Step 3 : Go to the DVD / Write panel and click Write.

Step 2 (a) : Select the track(s) you want to rip from the CD, then click the Rip icon. Or drag & drop the selected track(s) on it. This will start the rip process

Step 1 : To view the tracks available on the CD. Expand the icon of the CD drive holding the CD disc you want to rip and wait for the operation querying the drive to complete and display "Querying the CD. Please wait...done".

This will display the tracks available on the CD in the left view, using the track titles from the FreeDB CD database if you have opted to use it.

To prepare to rip all or part of the CD, either drag the drive icon and drop it to the center view to display the tracks available on the CD, or drag the selected tracks to the center view. The available tracks wil display with a yellow pie.

Step 2 (b) : Wait for the ripping to complete for all the tracks. Solo display the ripping progress as a yellow pie progressively filled with black.