System requirements
To be able to record an audio CD, your computer system must meet the following specifications:
CD burner with software
The Audio Recorder provides you with an easy way to
digitize recordings of videos, music
cassettes or LP’s. Besides that you need a CD burning device and CD-burning
software, to record the digital sound files on CD. The CD-burning software is
usually supplied with the CD burning device.
With the Audio Recorder you can digitize a sound recording to the hard disk,
in a way that is suitable to record it on an audio CD. For other sound recording
tasks, various recording sound qualities can be selected.
Sound card
To record music in a way that is suitable for an audio CD, your system must be equipped with a 16 bits sound card. The sound card must have a Line-in connector to connect an LP or cassette player for example.
Free disk space
The hard disk of your computer must have sufficient free space to be able
to temporarily store the digital sound files you want to record on CD.
For each second of Compact disc quality digital sound, you need approximately
172 KB of free disk space. That is approximately 10 megabyte for each minute.
This is the case for recordings with CD stereo sound quality. The actual amount
of required disk space depends on the selected recording quality (see
Recording quality
for more information). If you want to record everything on CD in one session,
you must have enough free disk space to accommodate the total playing time of
all tracks. The recordings of a full CD (approximately 74 minutes), require
approximately 740 megabyte of free disk space!
TIPS:
If your hard disk does not have enough free space
to accommodate all of the tracks that must be burnt on CD, you can record one
or more tracks in steps. In that case you must not close the ‘recording session’
of the audio CD before all tracks are recorded. As soon as a group of tracks
is recorded on CD, you can free disk space by removing the sound files from
disk with help of the Windows Explorer. You will then have disk space to digitize
the next group of tracks and you continue this process until all tracks are
burnt on CD. Please refer to the documentation of the CD burning software for
more information on recording sessions.
Processor
Your system must be equipped with at least a 300 MHz processor and 64-Mb memory, to be able to process the enormous amounts of data without problems.