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Welcome to the eJay MP3 PRO

Installation of the eJay MP3 PRO

The Basic Functions and the Base Module

Archive & Playlist

Grab CDs

Write CDs

Print Cover

Editor

Audio Output Settings

Animator

File Information

Options

eJay NetRadio

eJay Homepage

eJay MP3 Exchange

The eJay Team

Licence Agreement

Copyright © 2000 eJay AG. All rights reserved. eJay is a registered trademark of eJay AG. All other brand or product names are trademarks of their respective holders.


 WELCOME TO THE EJAY MP3 PRO

In an incredibly short space of time the MP3 format has developed from a spectacular innovation to a standard feature on PCs all over the world. MP3 is an abbreviation for the audio data format ”MPEG Audio Layer 3”. The technique (developed by the Fraunhofer Institute) is used to shrink wave files to approx. 10% of their original size without any significant reduction in quality. Files can even be reduced to min. 1/40 if you are prepared to accept the resulting loss in quality.

A wave file of an average music title lasting about 4 minutes is roughly 40 MB in size. Although transfer rates in the Internet are getting faster and faster and flat-rate and broadband connections save time and money, 40 MB is still a whole lot of data to shift! And considering the fantastic range of music downloads available on the internet, both now and in the future, MP3 is the ideal format both for downloads and for archiving tracks on your hard disk.

eJay MP3 PRO is the perfect MP3 tool – it’s got everything you need to download music and to create your own CD including a printed CD cover. You can download, process, edit and cut MP3. Use eJay MP3 PRO to archive and create playlists and even program fades for all transitions. You can write audio CDs and even set your own fades and cue points – and listen to eJay NetRadio while you’re doing it. You can then create video animations or design and print a cool cover. And a whole lot more besides!

eJay MP3 PRO – Get your music now!

eJay Hotline: +44 (0)1923-495-497


 INSTALLATION OF THE EJAY MP3 PRO

Installation

First insert the eJay MP3 PRO CD into the CD-ROM drive. Installation will start automatically if the autostart function is active. To start installation manually, click Run in the Start menu, type ”D:\setup” and then click OK (”D” is the drive in which the CD is inserted).

In the installation dialog box which then appears, select the drive and the target directory in which you want the software to be installed. Then confirm with INSTALL.

The software requires 60 MB free hard disk space. The installation of the databank requires a further 53 MB. If eJay MP3 Station 1.0, Dance eJay 2, Techno eJay 2 or Hip Hop eJay 2 is already installed on the computer, the eJay MP3 Exchange files needed for the MP3 functions will be copied automatically to the directories of the respective programs.

If you want to install eJay MP3 Exchange as a standalone tool, you must click the relevant option in the installation dialog box. eJay MP3 Exchange can then only be used purely as an MP3 converter without any other special functions.

System Requirements

PC Windows 95 or later, Pentium, 16 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, 80 MB free hard disk space, minimum resolution 800x600, high colour, sound card.


 THE BASIC FUNCTIONS AND THE BASE MODULE

All of the eJay MP3 PRO functions are called up from the base module. The base module is always visible and contains the most important controls.

The base module can be minimized and moved to the task bar or maxmized to cover the entire screen. Here you can close the MP3 PRO and you can start the Windows Help function to get information about individual functions while the program is running.

You can change the size of the base module using the highlighted areas along the lower edge and in the bottom right-hand corner.

The control functions are in the bottom section of the module. These controls are used to adjust the volume and level.

The playback buttons are the same as those on a CD player and are used to playback audio files.

PLAY starts the highlighted track. If you press PLAY again during playback, the track being played will stop and start playing again from the beginning.

STOP stops playback. If you then press PLAY, the currently selected track will start playing again from the beginning.

PAUSE stops playback and notes the point at which playback was stopped.

SKIP FORWARD moves to the next track in the list.

SKIP BACKWARDS moves to the previous track in the list.

FAST FORWARD winds forwards through the track.

FAST REWIND winds backwards through the track.

LOOP repeats the entire playlist.

RANDOM creates a random playback sequence from the tracks in the playlist.

The JOG wheel lets you rewind or fast forward at different speeds while listening to an audio file without interrupting playback. This makes finding certain points within a track much easier.

Pitch changes the playback speed in the same way as a record player.

The current performance of the Music Animator is indicated in the bottom right-hand field.

The comprehensive range of special functions available with eJay MP3 PRO can be called up any time and during any working step using the menu buttons (top centre). These buttons are therefore always visible and open special scenes for the special functions:

Archive & Playlist

Grab CDs

Write CDs

Print Cover

Editor

Audio Output Settings

Animator

File Information

Options

eJay NetRadio

eJay Homepage

eJay MP3 Exchange


 ARCHIVE & PLAYLIST

This is the perfect platform for organizing all the MP3s and any other music files on your PC. You can also create complete playlists as well as define and, of course, save individual fades (i.e. acoustic transitions) between any two music tracks.

The left-hand third of the screen is the desktop, music archive and playlist archive. The selection window in the centre of the screen shows the content of the highlighted directory. On the right-hand side you can create playlists from the existing audio files.

The structure of your local drives and network environment is displayed in the desktop. In this screen section you can drag MP3s and other files directly into the music archive from, for example, a CD-ROM.

The music archive has been specially designed for archiving your MP3 files. You can sort them according to style, artist, year of publication or CDs and you can subdivide these directories again.

To create a new directory, move the mouse pointer to the archive window, click the right-hand mouse key and select ”New Archive Directory”. In this way you can also create archive subdirectories, delete and rename directories, and display their size.

You can organize your music files how you want and add new items whenever you want. Music files can be dragged from the desktop to an archive directory or to the playlist.

Right-clicking highlighted audio files in the selection window opens a context menu with the items Playback, Add To Playlist, Save As MP3 (or Wave) File, Open File in Editor, Rename or Delete File and Find File. With ”Find File”, the ”Find” dialog box is the same as that described in the section entitled File Information.

Here you can convert wave files into MP3 files. Initially the MP3 files are stored in the same directory as the wave files, but can then be moved to any location. MP3 Exchange also provides the possibility of direct conversion (see below).

You can now create your own personal playlist (i.e. list of music tracks) from the tracks which you have saved in the music archive. Playlists allow you to put together a complete music program for an entire evening so that you don’t have to keep messing around with the stereo. You can also prepare musical backgrounds for every occasion – a candlelight dinner or a bridge party. To do so, you simply drag the music files out of the middle selection window over into the playlist window on the right-hand side, or click ADD FILE TO PLAYLIST in the context menu.

To create transitions between the individual tracks, click Fade. A small dialog box then appears in which you can define the transition between the highlighted track and the following track.

You can choose between 5 different fade types:

Type 1 The tracks do not overlap. The fade time determines the pause between the two tracks.

Type 2: The tracks overlap, but are not faded in or out. The fade time determines the length of overlap.

Type 3: The tracks overlap and the highlighted track is faded out. The fade time determines the length of overlap and transition.

Type 4: The tracks overlap, the highlighted track is faded out, and the following track is faded in. The fade time determines the length of overlap and transition.

Type 5: The tracks overlap and the following track is faded in. The fade time determines the length of overlap and transition.

The fade time can be max. 120 seconds. It can be entered to two decimal positions directly by clicking the display window, or the value can be increased and decreased in steps of one second using the arrows on the left and right-hand side of the display.

Click OK to save the fade.

Caution! If you move a track with programmed transition to a different position within the playlist or remove a track from the playlist, the fade is reset to the default setting. It is therefore advisable to decide upon the playlist sequence before creating the transitions. The default setting is Fade type 1 with a fade time of two seconds, which means: ”The tracks do not overlap and have a two-second pause between them”. Of course, the fades are also saved together with the playlist.

To save the playlist in the playlist archive, click the disc icon. Click the new file icon to create a new playlist. The total playtime of the playlist is displayed in the ”Playtime” field.


 GRAB CDS

Audio CDs can be read and directly written to the hard disk (”grabbing” or ”ripping”). The CD must be in the drive.

All tracks on the CD are displayed in this window. You can use the checkboxes to the left of the individual tracks to select which tracks are to be read and copied to the hard disk.

Under Options use the small selector next to the path display to select the location on your hard disk where you want to create the directory with the tracks from the CD.

You must then decide whether the tracks are to be saved as wave files or MP3 files, and select normal or high as the reading speed. Normal reading speed ensures optimum reading accuracy, but takes longer.

The automatic naming function is intended as a help function. It stores the tracks together with the associated data from the offline CD database.

Here you can choose whether the target directory is to be automatically given the same name as the artist or the track of the CD.

You can also add the number of the track on the CD, the name of the artist, and title of the CD to the file names for the individual tracks.

Thanks to the offline database containing almost 1.5 million entries (CDDB), this data is recognized when the CD is inserted.

If the inserted CD is not found offline, eJay MP3 PRO can go online to look for this CD. This function must be activated under Options. A CD found in the Internet is automatically added to the offline database. The program can then recognize the CD the next time it is called up.

If you press START, eJay MP3 PRO begins saving the data. A progress bar appears indicating how much data has been copied. The copying process can also be aborted by pressing the button under the progress bar.


 WRITE CDS

If the Write CD window is opened (if available), the playlist from the Archive & Playlists scene is displayed. Any fades that have been programmed are also included and the playlist can be recorded as an audio CD. Of course, the playlist can first be edited or a new playlist can be created. Alternatively, the MP3 files can also be recorded as a data CD.

You can access your music archive, the desktop and the playlist archive so that changes can be made to the CD which you are about to write. You then drag the desired track into the middle CD window. The bar above this window shows the current length of the audio CD and the size of the ISO CD.

When you have compiled the CD, choose between audio CD and data CD. The audio or data options are then activated accordingly.

Audio CD Options

Under Audio Options you can set fades or edit existing fades in the same way as in the playlists. You can also change the position of the cue point. The cue point is the track number under which a track is found on the recorded audio CD. This is the precise point at which the track begins to play when it is selected.

It is important to note that the fade-out information refers to the highlighted track and the fade-in and cue point to the following track. Initially, the cue point is always at the beginning of the track. By moving the fade it is possible to move the cue point to any position within the fade time. The cue point can, for example, be placed in the middle of the fade.

Data CD Options

This is where you enter the track of the CD.

General Options

SIMULATION checks the recording process under the specified conditions. This allows any system-related problems which may occur during recording to be determined before the actual recording process is started.

ON THE FLY means that the source files are copied from the source CD and written to the target CD directly without the data being buffered on the local hard disk. This function should only be used with high-performance hardware and should not be used if more than one CD is to be recorded.

You can set the recording speed individually for each recording process. However, the maximum speed depends on your CD-writer.

To make sure that audio CDs are recorded 100% error-free (especially in the case of older CD-writers), it is advisable to set the recording speed to max. 2x.

COPIES sets the number of CDs to be recorded.

BURN starts the recording process.

CD COPY disregards the settings and copies the data from the CD in the standard drive directly to the CD inserted in the CD-writer to produce a one-to-one copy.  With certain CDs, for example hybrid CDs, the copying process may not function correctly. The data needs to be saved on your hard disk first.


 PRINT COVER

Open the Print Cover scene to design a label and cover for the recorded CD. The booklet, inlay, and label can each be created separately. Various selections are made using the buttons in the top left-hand corner.

Several text boxes are provided. If you click one of these text boxes, it is highlighted and can be edited on the left-hand side. You can then enter the desired text, such as CD name, artist, title, comments, etc.

The FONT button opens the standard Windows dialog box used to select font type, font colour, and font size. Any settings made here always affect the highlighted text.

Click OK to transfer the text to the cover or label on the left-hand side.

You can use an image (jpg or bmp format) as the background for the CD label or cover. To do so, click PASTE PICTURE and then select an image from your desktop. The image can be removed again by clicking DELETE PICTURE.

You can also use a certain colour as the background. To do so, click COLOUR and select the desired shade from the colour palette. The selected colour setting is ignored if you insert an image.

Click SAVE to save all settings to a special program directory. You can click LOAD to load your cover again at any time to make additional copies or to edit an existing cover.

Click NEW to delete all of the text that you have entered. You can then design the next cover.

Click PRINT to print the cover, label, or inlay. In the dialog box that then appears, you can choose between various templates or adjust the upper and right-hand edge of the image according to the specifications of the blank labels.


 EDITOR

With eJay MP3 PRO you can edit MP3 files directly in the software and then save them as new MP3 files. You can access all of the main editing functions via mouseclick.

MP3 files can be re-edited, new fades can be calculated, and you can remove any blur from the recordings. And there are plenty of other features too.

To open the editor, simply press the menu button on the base module or open an MP3 file using the File command in the Editor item context menu (click the MP3 file with the right-hand mouse key).

If the editor is already open, you can open a new MP3 by pressing the OPEN button in the lower part of the main MP3 PRO module.

The name of the opened MP3 file as well as its length are displayed in the header.

The various edit functions always affect the selected area. You select a certain area by holding down the left-hand mouse key and dragging over the area you want to edit. For example: Click the desired start position for the area you want to select. Then, holding down the mouse key, move the mouse to the right until you reach the end of the area you want to select. To adjust the left or right-hand side of the selection, click the selection boundary while holding down the CTRL key and move the selection boundary.

The length of the selected area (SELECTION) and its starting position (CURSOR) are now shown below, in the lower section of the window.

Edit functions in detail

Cut selection. You use this function to delete a selected area. The selected area is removed and the areas to the left and right of the selection are pushed together. The selected area is stored in the clipboard and you can insert it at a different position.

Copy selection. You use this function to copy the selected area to the clipboard so that you can then insert it at a different location.

Paste selection. The content of the clipboard, i.e. the selected area that you have just copied or cut, is inserted at the current cursor position. The section to the right of the cursor shifts to the right to make room for the selected area.

Insert silence. A mute block is inserted in the MP3 file at the beginning of the selected area. This mute block is exactly the same length as the selected area. The selected area of the MP3 file is moved to the right and not deleted.

Trim. Everything except the selected area is deleted.

Normalize. This function amplifies the selected area to the maximum volume, i.e. the loudest point is located and the MP3 file is amplified by the difference between the loudest point and 0 dB.

Fade in. This function calculates a fade-in transition of the same length as the selected area. You select the fade type under Options.

Fade out. This function calculates a fade-out transition of the same length as the selected area. You select the fade type under Options.

Calculate silence. The volume of the selected area is set to zero. The selected area is muted.

Undo. Press this button at the bottom left of the editor to undo the last action.

+FX. This function activates the audio output settings. Initially the audio output settings are ignored when files are played back in the editor. They are therefore not applied to the files. If, however, you want to use the effects, press +FX. The effect settings are then applied for both playback and when storing the files. All FX and filters are then available for editing your MP3 files.

The individual functions of the FX studio are explained in the section entitled Audio Output Settings.

Volume und panorama curves

A volume curve and panorama curve are shown in the Controller track in the bottom third of the Waveform window. They can be brought to the foreground and edited using these buttons. Click a point on the curve. A small marker appears which you can now move to any position. This lets you plot your own volume and stereo balance curves. To delete the markers, use the mouse to select the area in the Controller track containing the markers and then remove the markers by pressing the backspace or DEL key.

You can also use this method at any time to undo fades, or level and mute changes that you have made.

With the zoom function you can freely vary the size of the MP3 file from ”display all” to ”maximum size”.

The maximize button zooms the selected area so that it covers the entire width of the display window.

Clicking OPEN opens a new MP3 file in the editor.

SAVE SELECTION saves the selected area. You are prompted to enter a new file name and the path at which the file is to be stored on your hard disk.

SAVE saves the entire MP3 file. You are prompted to enter a new file name and the path at which the file is to be stored on your hard disk.

To edit areas along the volume and panorama curves, you must first select them. When doing this, only the bottom section displaying the two curves is marked and not the entire waveform.

You can use the following keyboard commands:

Backspace:	Deletes selection

DEL:	Deletes selection

CTRL+C:	Copies selection

CTRL+V:	Pastes selection


 AUDIO OUTPUT SETTINGS

You can use the audio output settings to add effects to your entire playlist or to individual music tracks. They are only applied when the tracks are played back – they do not modify the file itself. You can also use the settings to compensate any acoustic inaccuracies of the PC’s loudspeaker as well as to create cool effects for MP3 playback.

EQUALIZER:

The EQ has 5 presets and 3 programmable buttons (INDIVIDUAL 1-3). All of these settings can be changed by clicking the curve. Any changes made to the presets are not saved. You can reset the settings for the programmable buttons with RESET. This ”flattens” the EQ curve again.

FILTER:

The filter trims the signal at the cut-off frequency. In other words, it deletes all frequencies which are above the CUTOFF setting.

The RESONANCE function generates natural oscillation at the point where the cut-off is applied – this produces the typical ”filtered” sound. OVERDRIVE can be used to add distortion.

EFFECT VOLUME adjusts the proportion of effect sound relative to the original.

ECHO:

The Echo function adds repetitions of the original sound. TIME is used to adjust the interval between the individual repetitions, FEEDBACK to change the number of repetitions, and EFFECT VOLUME to adjust the proportion of effect sound relative to the original.

CRUNCH:

This is a special synthetic distorter. COLOUR is used to adjust the level of distortion between harmless and super crunchy. EFFECT VOLUME adjusts the proportion of effect sound relative to the original.

DISTORTION:

Distortion is a more conventional distortion feature. You can use it to create very slight or very extreme sound distortion. DIRTY and NOISE both affect the degree of distortion and at the same time control the effect volume.

MIDSWEEP:

Midsweep is an equalizer function which ”sweeps” through a certain frequency range. Try it out!

STEREOWIDE:

Stereowide is used to intensify the stereo effect. This function can help if the signal sounds too mono or if you want to increase the stereo effect.

REVERB:

Reverb is an acoustic effect. You can choose between the following presets: Church, Club, Tunnel, Small Box, and Stage.

AUDIO LEVEL:

This controls the volume applied to the chosen audio effects. The use of various effects can cause over-amplification. You can prevent this by reducing the volume.

ACTIVE:

You must press Active to activate the settings. You can use the button to toggle between ”dry” and ”wet” (i.e. between the ”dry” original and the signal with the effects that you have added).


 ANIMATOR

The animator makes your grooves and sounds visible! Spectral generators use frequency and beats per minute to create wild graphics. During playback you can turn on various effects, modify colour changes and basic moves - and even save the whole thing so that your animation can be loaded again together with the MP3 file. You can open the animator either by pressing the menu button in the base module or by clicking the animator miniscreen in the bottom right-hand corner of the display.

WAVES (basic moves):

With the OSCILLOSCOPE, SPECTRAL LINE, SPECTRAL BODY, and SPECTRAL CLASSIC buttons you can change the basic graphical effects.

With STEREOSCOPE you can add another basic effect to the current basic moves.

COLOURS:

The colour presets include coordinated colour clusters which express different moods.

EFFECTS:

The effect group is used to distort the basic moves. The display can, for example, be rotated or faded. Moves can be zoomed backwards or forwards. 3D effects are also possible.

FADE and PACE are used to adjust the fade effect and fade time or to change the pace of movement. Clicking within the animator screen with the left-hand mouse key generates a swirl at the click point. Clicking with the right-hand mouse key shifts the centre of the movement effects.

You can add your own IMAGES to the animation at any time using the selection buttons. You must select the images beforehand using the path selector.

You can switch the animation to full screen display at any time by pressing FULL SCREEN. Click ESC, SPACE, or RETURN to switch back to the animator.

The AUTOMODE function is used to activate the random animation feature. It is activated automatically when an audio file containing a stored animation is played back.

A separate animation can be recorded for each MP3 file and then saved with the MP3!

To do this first select an MP3 file in the music archive or playlist. Then open the animator. Each MP3 can have only one animation.

When you click RECORD, the MP3 file is played back and any mouse-clicks or controller adjustments that you make in the Animator scene are recorded. Each time you open the MP3 file in eJay MP3 PRO, the animator data is also opened and the whole show is loaded!

If you press STOP during recording, recording is stopped and the data is retained.

If, on the other hand, you press CANCEL, recording is stopped but the animation is not saved.

If you press ERASE, the animator file is removed from the hard disk. The animator file will no longer be loaded when you call up the MP3 file.

Caution: If you rename MP3 files outside of eJay MP3 PRO (e.g. in the Windows Explorer), the associated animator file will not be found when you call up the MP3 file again. If you rename an MP3 file in the eJay MP3 PRO archive, the name of the animator file is also changed at the same time.

If you want to play back your animation in other media players, you can export it as an AVI file. To do so, click EXPORT or EXPORT WITH SOUND. A Windows dialog box now appears in which, depending on the installed media player, you are prompted to select the desired codec method. Usually you can choose between uncompressed and various compression methods.

You can use the following keyboard commands:

Zoom	1

Spin	2

Spiralisation	3

Parboyled	4

Whirly	5

Waveomatic	6

Scifizoom	7

Rotattax	8

Stormy	9

Chekov	0

Effects Off	Y

Oscilloscope	Q

Spectral Line	W

Spectral Body	E

Spectral Classic	R

Waves Off	Z

Red Room	S

Frozen Land	D

Green Sea	F

High Noon	G

Dark Forest	H

Add Pictures	B, N and M

Fade 	O and P

Pace	K and L

Auto Mode	A


Datei Information
 FILE INFORMATION

You can attach additional information to wave files and MP3 files. This information can contain the name of the artist and title and so on, or a comment box in which you can add your own remarks.

Initially the content of the selection window on the left-hand side of the display is identical to that contained in the middle selection window in the Archive & Playlists window. All of the information for the selected file is now shown in the fields on the right-hand side.

The entries for TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, YEAR, STYLE, and COMMENTS can be freely edited. The FILE INFO field, however, is for display only and contains file information which cannot be edited.

Any changes made to the editable fields are saved if you click OK. If you have made changes but have not saved them with OK, you must confirm the prompt ”Do You Want To Discard Changes?” before you can select another file. DELETE INFO removes all entries.

From here you can also add tracks to the playlist. This can be very useful especially if you no longer know the name and location of the file you are looking for.

To look for a file, click FIND to open the FIND dialog box. In the LOOK FOR field enter a term (or terms each separated by a space) that you are looking for. Then choose whether just one of the entered words or all of them (e.g. artist and year) are to be found.

Under LOOK IN you can limit the scope of the search. The FIND button starts the search according to your criteria. All of the tracks which satisfy the search criteria are listed under HITS.

If you double-click one of these tracks, the FIND dialog box is closed and the content of the directory in which the file is located is displayed in the INFO pane.

Click OK to close the FIND dialog box without changing the path in the INFO pane.


 OPTIONS

Under Options you can change basic technical settings for eJay MP3 PRO. Some of the settings affect a specific function whereas others may influence more than one aspect of eJay MP3 PRO. It is therefore advisable to check the settings regularly to ensure that, for example, encoding operations are always performed in the desired quality and to prevent CD data from being output via the analogue output of the CD drive...

Quicktips ON/OFF

This function switches the rollover help on and off.

Online Update ON/OFF

If Online Update is ON, you will be informed of current updates automatically.

Animation ON/OFF

This function affects all animations. All animated buttons and the music animation itself are deactivated. This allows the computer to work faster when audio files only are being processed.

CD Database ONLINE/OFFLINE

An offline database with approx. 1.5 million entries is supplied with eJay MP3 PRO. If you activate CD Database Online, titles are automatically looked for in the Internet if they cannot be found in the offline database.

Language selection

Here you can select the desired language.

Audio CD Playback ANALOGUE/DIGITAL

The CD drive has an analogue and digital output. You can use this function to toggle between the two outputs.

Encoding Rate (32, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320)

You use the encoding rate to define the size and, therefore, the quality of the MP3 files. A middle setting of 128kbit/s reduces the size of the file to 1/10 while retaining a very acceptable level of quality!

Encoding Speed NORMAL/HIGH

If the encoding speed is switched to HIGH and a low encoding rate is selected, you may be able to hear background noise in quiet sections. The HIGH setting is therefore not always suitable for quiet tracks.

Automatic link with WAV, MP3, CDA, M3U

eJay MP3 PRO is opened automatically when you double-click the file types selected here (e.g. in the Explorer or on your desktop).

Storage locations for MUSIC ARCHIVE and PLAYLIST ARCHIVE

Here you can set the storage locations for the music archive and playlist archive.

Editor - FADE Curve

Here you can define the shape and, therefore, the characteristics of the fade curve.

Save As ORIGINAL, WAVE, or DEFAULT

Here you can choose between various storage options for the edited audio files.

Waveform colour (Red Room, Frozen Land, Green Sea, High Noon, Dark Forest)

Here you can customize the appearance of the wave and the volume/panorama curve.


 EJAY NETRADIO

eJay NetRadio is the non-stop internet radio for the club scene. The current charts and best DJ mixed sessions are available on several channels which are continuously updated and extended. eJay NetRadio broadcasts tapes from big names like Carl Cox as well as local residents and new up-and-coming DJs from the best European clubs. And all that 24 hours a day in non-stop power rotation.

Click the eJay NetRadio icon and the radio site at www.ejay.com is called up without you even having to start your browser.

You can then directly access the different channels. You can listen in while checking out program previews or calling up information about the very latest sessions. If new channels are launched, you can tune in straightaway. And here you will also find red-hot news about all aspects of eJay NetRadio.


 EJAY HOMEPAGE

www.ejay.com

The website continues to entertain, with more free music and software downloads, scene news, everything about eJay, and a communication platform for all dance and club music fans.


EJAY MP3 EXCHANGE

You can also use MP3 Exchange if you only want to convert wave files into MP3 without having to use any other editors. It is simpler to use and all the other eJay MP3 PRO tools are disabled. It can be installed during the main installation.

In this window you can convert waves into MP3 files quickly and easily. To do so drag the file(s) to be converted out of the Windows Explorer and into the eJay MP3 Exchange window. All the wave files appear on the left-hand side and the MP3 files on the right-hand side. Now click CONVERT to convert either all files, or just those selected, into the other format. You can also determine the quality of the MP3 files.

You can use the buttons in the top right-hand corner to minimize or close the eJay MP3 Exchange window.

MP3 Plug-In for other eJay products

If you install eJay MP3 Exchange, the programs Dance eJay 2, Techno eJay 2, and Hip Hop eJay 2 MP3 also become compatible automatically.

In the Export dialog box of the respective program you can then choose whether you want to save the mix as a wave or MP3 file. The encoding quality can be set to either LOW (32kbit/s), HALF (64 kbit/s), NORMAL (128 kbit/s), or HIGH (265 kbit/s). When sounds are imported, all MP3 files will then also be displayed.


 THE EJAY TEAM

The eJay Production Team

D. Anker, A. Bäurle, K. Birke, S. Braun, M. Colli, D. di Nisio, T. Drewling, O. Eberdt, H. Ewert, D. Frederick, D. Früh, V. Gietz, M. Gminder, R. Gravenstein, W. Gruel, B. Hansen, M. Heber, O. Heinzel, T. Hohenstatt, S. Kania, W. Kern, M. Kränzle, V. Kwauka, B. Mirwald, U. Möllhoff, K. Nadj, T. Peichl, D. Pursanidou, F. Preissinger, J. Raths, H. Rietschel, S. Rössler, A. Sabbathi, B. Schempp, H. Schmitz, J. Schöpf, D. Scott, J. Settelmeier, F. Siepert, C. Tapal, A. Tell, B. Throll, A. Thumm, M. Uttenweiler, N. Wallasch, T. Wendlandt, H. Werner, S. Zach, J. Zechner

Producer/Sounddesigner/Key-Programmer/ Artists

Adrian Baber, Jens Bauer, Markus Birkle, Andi Bückle, Chris Drewing, Mary C. Forbs, Ines Füldner, Michael Geise, Phillip Gisele, Harald Hermann, Nico Herz, Didi Holzner, Petra Jansen, Jürgen Kost, Michael Kübler, Martin Lauer, Heiko Maile, Johannes Matz, MC Renegade, Daniel Mewes, Birgit Neugebauer, Dizzy Pandtle, Warner Poland, Konrad Panke, Jakob Rang, Philip Roller, Armin Sabohl, Jochen Schmalbach, Marcus Schnitzler, Ralf Schöttle, Robert Sivek, Michael Stoll, Daniel Varga, Marc Wallowy, Kirsten Wittich, Milan Zemanec


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1. Licence. The copyright in this software, audio recordings and accompanying documentation ("Software") is owned by eJay AG ("eJay"). eJay grants you a nonexclusive and nontransferable personal licence ("Licence") to use the enclosed Software to create original audio tracks ("Derivative Work"). You may claim ownership to the composition of such Derivative Works created by you with the Software and are entitled to make such Derivative Works available to the public, however you are NOT entitled to license or sell the Software (including any individual elements of the Software such as audio recordings or samples contained within this CD-ROM) to any third party other than when such elements are contained within the recording of the Derivative Work. For the avoidance of doubt, if any third party makes a legal claim with the respect to the ownership of the Derivative Work, you will be wholly responsible for defending such claims and eJay accepts no responsibility in or liablity for defending such claims. The Software in this package and any copies which this Licence authorises you to make are subject to the terms contained herein. All rights not expressly granted to you under this Licence are reserved by eJay.

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Law and order

In the internet you find a lot of sites with a music or MP3 content. Almost every hit from the current top ten lists and even whole CDs are downloadable. From the legal side the situation is this: To download or present a title with copyright on the personal homepage without the knowledge and permission of the holder of the copyright is illegitimate. The passing on or trading with such tracks is indictable. But in the meantime there are a lot of sites with free downloadable MP3s. Selfcomposed tracks can be put on sites of yourself or other people.