Unattended Ripping of Multiple CDs

You'll love this one. Because of the way BeOS and our TunePrepper system work together, you can encode the contents of multiple CDs all night if you like, while you're at home catching some well-deserved zzzz's.

  Create a folder into which you want to place all your songs, at least temporarily.
  Mount a music CD (right-click on desktop to mount it).
  Double-click on the CD's icon to open it, then double-click on the WAV folder you will find inside the CD.
  Select the tracks you want from the CD and drag-and-drop them into your music folder. All the tracks will be grabbed from CD and stored as WAV files. If you're connected to the Internet, the tracks will have been looked up, and their track information will automatically have been added to the files.
  Unmount the CD, pop in the next CD, and mount that one.
  Repeat the process for all the CDs you want extracted, creating one big folder full of WAV files.
  When you're ready to start prepping and encoding songs, launch TunePrepper and drop the entire music folder you created into the obvious window in TunePrepper.
  Select the encoder settings you desire. Browse to the location of a destination folder, click on it, and choose "Open." This tells TunePrepper to save all the finished files to that location.
  Click Start. TunePrepper will immediately set to work on the entire big-batch of files.

When you get back in the morning, you should see a whole folder full of nicely prepped, encoded, broadcast-ready songs waiting for you!

Kudo...test this first to be sure it works for your situation, before devoting a lot of time to this technique!

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