Rip Audio CD's or CD-R's

Overview If you looked at a standard audio CD you would not find wav or mp3 files but cda files.  If you just copied these to the computer you would end up with a bunch of 1kb files and no audio.

A data CD would actually shows the files with the standard extensions such as mp3, wav, or whatever.

Solution

Use the Vegas import function to properly rip the audio tracks.  If you have a lot of CDs to do, you can run multiple copies of Vegas to use the multiple drives on Xavier.

Standard CD Case Cover

Overview How to create a standard CD case cover.

Tools

ACDSee

For editing the content of the case cover

Tag&Rename

For creating the tags and titles etc. for the case cover.

Nero CoverDesigner (v9)

For creating the case cover.

Nero

For moving title data, etc into the case cover.

Steps

1. Create the wav files for the CD.  Probably using Sony Vegas.  Name the regions, and file names as "nn aaaaa" ...where nn is the track number and aaaa is the title of the track.
2. Run Tag& Rename to set the tags (on Apollo).
   1. Go to directory with wav files and right click and select "tag&rename"
   2. Copy  the track number and title from the file names.
   3. Add anything else you need to the tags.
3. Create cover art for the case using ACDSee.
4. Open Nero Burning ROM and set up the CD
   1.  Drag wav files in
   2. Organize the wav files
   3. Save the nra file
5. Create the cover
   1. In Nero, under File, select <print disc cover>
   2. This will open Nero Cover Designer and copy the titles etc to the cover.
   3. Edit the cover design and save or print.
   4. NOTE: The back cover insert will be too wide if using photo-paper.  I found that it fits if you move the right edge title from within the template to the left so that the bottom of the title is on the left template guide of the edge title.
6. I usually use PrintCD to print disc surfaces.