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[dondadda3]

I am a proud owner of EMC7 and have just purchased EMC9. I used EMC7 for importing tracks from my cd collection to make compilation cds to play in my car. In EMC7 Classic Creator it showed a list of the songs available on the cd with a checkbox next to each title. Ther was also a "preview window" where the track info was also displayed. I miss not having the preview window, but the thing I can't do without is the checkbox that allowed you to listen to file and then decide if you wanted to import. This way, you could decide to import tracks 1, 4, 7 etc. In EMC9, there doesn't seem to be a way to preview multiple files and then decide which ones will be imported. I appreciate that using the ctrl key allows multiple file selection but that only works if you already know which files you want. It almost seems that I'll have to preview the songs, then write down on a piece of paper the track numbers I want, then import them. Surely this a backward step, or is there something I'm missing?

I have an HP pc running a 3.2g Pentium, with 1 gig of ram and 500gig storage.

[grandpabruce]

dondadda3, on Jan 17 2007, 07:34 AM, said:

I am a proud owner of EMC7 and have just purchased EMC9. I used EMC7 for importing tracks from my cd collection to make compilation cds to play in my car. In EMC7 Classic Creator it showed a list of the songs available on the cd with a checkbox next to each title. Ther was also a "preview window" where the track info was also displayed. I miss not having the preview window, but the thing I can't do without is the checkbox that allowed you to listen to file and then decide if you wanted to import. This way, you could decide to import tracks 1, 4, 7 etc. In EMC9, there doesn't seem to be a way to preview multiple files and then decide which ones will be imported. I appreciate that using the ctrl key allows multiple file selection but that only works if you already know which files you want. It almost seems that I'll have to preview the songs, then write down on a piece of paper the track numbers I want, then import them. Surely this a backward step, or is there something I'm missing?

I have an HP pc running a 3.2g Pentium, with 1 gig of ram and 500gig storage.

It works for me, using Music Disc Creator.  Put in the music CD that you want the clips from, open MDC, click on Import from CD/DVD, and you should get the attached screen.  You can preview each file with no problem.

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Edited by grandpabruce, 22 January 2007 - 12:21 PM.

[dondadda3]

Thanks very much for your prompt response. However, I can indeed preview tracks, but consider that the cd you've listed has 25 tracks and the names aren't listed in cddb, so the pane only shows Track1, Track2 Track3 etc. With EMC7 you could preview the track then check it, then preview another then check it (or not as the case may be) and so on. With the view you've shown there doesn't seem to be a way of of doing anything like this. Is there anyway of previewing a track and then adding it to a list of songs to be imported? It seems the only way to do this is to import one song at a time, or write down a list of songs and then use the ctrl button to highlight them. Please let me know if there is any other way. Are you familiar with EMC7?

Thanks again.

grandpabruce, on Jan 17 2007, 05:50 AM, said:

It works for me, using Music Disc Creator.  Put in the music CD that you want the clips from, open MDC, click on Import from CD/DVD, and you should get the attached screen.  You can preview each file with no problem.

[grandpabruce]

dondadda3, on Jan 17 2007, 08:25 AM, said:

Thanks very much for your prompt response. However, I can indeed preview tracks, but consider that the cd you've listed has 25 tracks and the names aren't listed in cddb, so the pane only shows Track1, Track2 Track3 etc. With EMC7 you could preview the track then check it, then preview another then check it (or not as the case may be) and so on. With the view you've shown there doesn't seem to be a way of of doing anything like this. Is there anyway of previewing a track and then adding it to a list of songs to be imported? It seems the only way to do this is to import one song at a time, or write down a list of songs and then use the ctrl button to highlight them. Please let me know if there is any other way. Are you familiar with EMC7?

Thanks again.

Ok, this is what it does, and you need to try a test, just to see if it will work for you.  First, I make a folder on my hard drive.  I called mine Recordings.  Ok, now in that picture I attached, I clicked on Smoke Rings, previewed it, then clicked on the Add button.

I had it save as a .wav file to that folder I made.  MDC will create a disc of whatever songs you add to that folder, and when you click the Add button, it creates a play list of songs to burn to disc.  The window for previewing and adding songs stays open.  It does not close until YOU close it.

All of the songs from that one CD are listed as Disc1 - Untitled.  You can right click on that and rename it.  If you add songs from another CD, you will get Disc2 - Untitled, I think.  It will be listed right under the first Disc.  Once you are done burning the new CD, you can delete the files from the created folder on your hard drive.

I don't have EMC 7 on my computer, but I do have EMC 7.5 in addition to EMC 9.

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Edited by grandpabruce, 17 January 2007 - 11:48 AM.

[dondadda3]

Thanks again for your help but I don't think I've explained myself properly because my issue isn't with burning cds, it with importing them onto my hard drive. Using EMC7 I've stored approx 400 gig of my music onto my pc. I keep a copy of my favourite music tracks on my pc for compilation purposes. The advice you've given below will only let me import one track at a time because the software begins importing as soon as you press the add button. With EMC7 there was a checkbox at the side of each track so you could check (indicate) which songs you intended to import say trk 1, 3, 5, 6, 9 then press import and it would import them one at a time without further user input. This "batch import" tecnique obviously means you can walk away from the pc and do something else for a couple of minutes while the import takes place. The advice you've suggested below seems as though I'll have to import 1 song at a time. (Unless I already knew which songs I planned to import beforehand, in which case I could use the ctrl button for multiple track selection) However as I've said elsewhere, this isn't ideal because I need to use preview to decide which tracks to import, which then precludes the use of the ctrl button! Surely there must be a way to highlight or drag to a temporary area, songs which I plan to import then when I've made my selection, press import or "start" or similar to get things going?




















[quote name='grandpabruce' date='Jan 17 2007, 11:47 AM' post='86622']
Ok, this is what it does, and you need to try a test, just to see if it will work for you.  First, I make a folder on my hard drive.  I called mine Recordings.  Ok, now in that picture I attached, I clicked on Smoke Rings, previewed it, then clicked on the Add button.

I had it save as a .wav file to that folder I made.  MDC will create a disc of whatever songs you add to that folder, and when you click the Add button, it creates a play list of songs to burn to disc.  The window for previewing and adding songs stays open.  It does not close until YOU close it.

All of the songs from that one CD are listed as Disc1 - Untitled.  You can right click on that and rename it.  If you add songs from another CD, you will get Disc2 - Untitled, I think.  It will be listed right under the first Disc.  Once you are done burning the new CD, you can delete the files from the created folder on your hard drive.

I don't have EMC 7 on my computer, but I do have EMC 7.5 in addition to EMC 9.

[grandpabruce]

Go back to the picture I have in Post #2 above.  You can click on each of the songs in the list and preview them.  They are not added until you want to add them.  Once you have previewed the songs and decided what you want, use the CTRL key, select all you want, then click on the Add button.

That will add all of the songs that you selected, at one time.

[dondadda3]

Thanks but if the cd I'm copying from has 25 tracks and they're not recognised by cddb, I'll need astonishing retentative powers to remember all of the different track numbers I want to import. Or of course I could write down the track numbers on a piece of paper after previewing them but that hardly seems like an elegant solution, besides as none of this was necessary in previous versions (that contained the checkbox) this really seems like a step backwards.

grandpabruce, on Jan 22 2007, 12:25 PM, said:

Go back to the picture I have in Post #2 above.  You can click on each of the songs in the list and preview them.  They are not added until you want to add them.  Once you have previewed the songs and decided what you want, use the CTRL key, select all you want, then click on the Add button.

That will add all of the songs that you selected, at one time.

[Larry]

dondadda3, on Jan 22 2007, 03:09 PM, said:

Thanks but if the cd I'm copying from has 25 tracks and they're not recognised by cddb, I'll need astonishing retentative powers to remember all of the different track numbers I want to import. Or of course I could write down the track numbers on a piece of paper after previewing them but that hardly seems like an elegant solution, besides as none of this was necessary in previous versions (that contained the checkbox) this really seems like a step backwards.

Whether it's a better or worse design is up to each user really, but grandpabruce gave you the info on how it works in v9 now (a Sonic/Roxio version btw). There is no reason why you couldn't do a custom install of v 7 (a Roxio only version) and just install it's creator classic also so you could use it for that purpose which seems to suit your style of importing these better (unless you have IE 7 or WMP 11 which break pre-v9 and a multitude of other software).

[grandpabruce]

dondadda3, on Jan 22 2007, 03:09 PM, said:

Thanks but if the cd I'm copying from has 25 tracks and they're not recognised by cddb, I'll need astonishing retentative powers to remember all of the different track numbers I want to import. Or of course I could write down the track numbers on a piece of paper after previewing them but that hardly seems like an elegant solution, besides as none of this was necessary in previous versions (that contained the checkbox) this really seems like a step backwards.

Do it any way it works for you.         

I'll be moving on, now.    

[dondadda3]

Thanks Larry. I didn't know it was possible to use Creator Classic from EMC7 alongside EMC9. To get round the problem, I've uninstalled EMC9 from one of my machines and re-instated EMC7, so one pc has v7 and the other v9, which as I've said before isn't exactly ideal. I will try doing a Custom install of EMC7s Creator Classic as you've suggested to see if it'll work alongside v9 without conflicts.

Thanks also grandpa bruce for all your help

Thanks but if the cd I'm copying from has 25 tracks and they're not recognised by cddb, I'll need astonishing retentative powers to remember all of the different track numbers I want to import. Or of course I could write down the track numbers on a piece of paper after previewing them but that hardly seems like an elegant solution, besides as none of this was necessary in previous versions (that contained the checkbox) this really seems like a step backwards.