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LP Ripper is supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
If you have finished splitting a recording and have saved the tracks as separate WAV files and want to burn them to a CD, select Burn Tracks from the File menu. This will launch the separate LP Burner program if it has been installed on your system and it will automatically open the tracks you have just saved.
A number of Special Folders with names such as Documents, Music etc. (My Documents, My Music on some versions of Windows) are pre-installed on Windows systems. These names are abbreviations for username-specific folders. When one of these Special Folders is selected in the WAV Folder or Target Folder box on the LP Ripper Preferences > Folders screen the Special Folder name is displayed instead of the full name.
Uncheck this option if you want to see the full names of the Special Folders wherever they appear on LP Recorder screens.
NOTE: The full folder names (e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My
Documents\My Music) are shown in a tooltip when you hover the mouse over
a Special Folder name.
Three different visual menu styles can be chosen to match your version of Windows and other Microsoft applications.
Look for Options in the LP Recorder Help Index to find examples of the
appearance of each style. The default style used is Flat.
The separate setup screens for MP3, WMA and Custom encoders have been combined into one. There are no default encoders - all types of encoders are now treated equally.
The Audio Quality slider bar lets you control the size and quality of any encoded file. It is measured as an encoding rate of Kilobytes per second (Kbps). There are five possible settings from 64 Kbps to 192 Kbps. The smaller values result in smaller files but the resulting audio quality is not as good. The default value of 128 Kbps results in a good compromise between size and quality.
A special character % can be used in the parameter settings as a substitute for the Audio Quality setting for all types of encoders.
An improved technique for analysing tracks has been implemented. This should result in fewer errors when trying to locate indistinct track gaps that are found on some recordings.
The Sensitivity and Automatic options settings have been replaced by Analyse preferences specifying minimum values for Track gap and Track length.
The Trim Tracks window is resizable - up to full screen if required.
The playing marker indicates playing progress in the upper display showing all of the tracks, as well as in the single-track lower display. This is useful for locating the start / end of tracks, by listening, when large adjustments have to be made. Setting the preview length to 0 allows you to preview to play the selected track without a time limit.
If sections of recording before the start of the first track and after the end of the last have been trimmed, they are shown in grey on the overall tracks display.
There are three new items on the Edit menu: Copy Track Names, Paste Track Names and Edit Track Names.
When LP Ripper analyses a recording to split it into tracks you can choose between the standard method, to split by detecting the silent gaps between tracks, or by the new method which allows you to create a specified number of equal-length tracks. This method of splitting tracks is useful for recordings which do not have clearly defined silent gaps between tracks e.g. spoken word recordings. Using this method, a one-hour recording of a lecture on a cassette tape or mini-disc could be split into twelve 5-minute tracks to be able to jump conveniently to different sections during playback.
Directories are now referred to as Folders throughout. Folder names can only be entered via a dialog box to help ensure that a valid, existing, folder is chosen and to support the display of Special Folder names.
If a track file (e.g. imagine.wav) would have the same name as the original recording (e.g. imagine.wav) and the Target Folder is the same as the WAV Folder, the track is saved as a file with a different name ( e.g. imagine(track).wav) to avoid clashing with the original.
The Trial version is clearly identified on the title bar.
If Xitel's INport is connected and identified by Windows it is not included in the Playback device list. The INport can only be used as a Recording device so this prevents it from being selected for playback by mistake.
WAV files from a wider variety of sources e.g. Windows Media Player 11, Broadcast Wave files from digital recorders etc. are supported.
The most recently opened files are now more convenient to access from the main File menu instead of a sub-menu. The number of files shown can be changed. Files which no longer exist do not appear in the list.
The File > Open dialog box displays WAV files only. The corresponding tracks (TRK) files are used if they exist, but do not appear in the dialog.
The toolbars on the main LP Ripper screen and Trim Tracks screen can optionally be displayed with large icons for better visibility.
The number of tracks that can be created from a recording, by LP Ripper, has been increased from 64 to 99.