Clicking on the Save Tracks tab will take you to the Save Tracks window. In this window, you can:
Save tracks as MP3 or AAC filesVinylStudio can generate MP3 files, one per track, for any or all of the albums in your collection. These can then be played in Windows Media Player or iTunes, or copied out to your MP3 player or memory stick. On the Macintosh, VinylStudio can also save tracks in AAC (MP4) format. This is the file format favoured by iTunes (although iTunes can also play MP3 files perfectly well).
Select the albums you want to save and then click Save Tracks. The process may take a while, although VinylStudio will skip any tracks that have been saved before (unless they have changed). To force VinylStudio to save all tracks regardless, check the 'Always save tracks, even if saved before' box.
To save tracks in other formats, click on the More button. You can also save individual tracks by selecting Save Track As from the Track menu in the Split Tracks window..
By default, saved tracks are saved in the following folder:
<Name of your collection>You can change this in the Settings dialog under the Options menu. You can also browse the folder from this dialog and you can change settings used for MP3 or AAC encoding when saving tracks.
Please note that if you are running VinylStudio Lite this feature may be unavailable. To upgrade, select 'Upgrade to Full Version' from the Help menu.
Tip: to select several albums in a block, click on the first (make sure it is ticked) and then shift-click on the last.
[ Top ]To copy tracks to an iPod, use iTunes. You will need to save your tracks first as described above.
To copy tracks to an MP3 player, first save them as MP3 files as described above. Then plug your MP3 player (or memory stick) into a USB port and click on the Copy to Player button. VinylStudio then displays the following dialog:
VinylStudio displays a list of drive letters which it thinks might be MP3 players or memory sticks. Select the one you want from the list and VinylStudio will then open two side-by-side, with your saved tracks on the left and your MP3 player on the right. You can then drag and drop files from one to the other in the usual way:
When dragging files across, be careful not to create too many folders on your MP3 player. Many players have a fairly low limit (10 or so) on the number of folders they can handle.
If you want to know how much space is left on your MP3 player, right-click in an empty part of the right-hand pane and select Properties.
[ Top ]There are two approaches to this: you can either have VinylStudio generate playlists, one per album, or you can import the MP3 files you have generated into Media Player's library directly.
To create playlists, select the Create Playlists for Windows Media Player option from the File menu. VinylStudio will then generate a playlist for each album in your collection and store them in the following folder:
<Name of your collection>
Playlists(You can change this folder from the Settings dialog under the Options menu).
You can then open or import these playlists into Media Player in the usual way. They have the advantage of maintaining the identity of the albums in your collection.
To import your MP3 files directly into Media Player's library (which is the more common approach), click on Media Player's Library tab, and then on Add to Library. Alternatively, you can tell Media Player to monitor your My Music folder. Then, all MP3 files that VinylStudio (or any other program) generates in that folder - or any folder below it - will be added to the library automatically. This is the default for Media Player 12 and later. To see what folders Media Player 12 is monitoring, click on Organise, and then Manage Libraries - Music.
[ Top ]VinylStudio does this by default on the Mac. If you prefer it not to, uncheck 'Add saved tracks to iTunes library' in the confirmation dialog which is displayed just before the tracks are saved. And if the process stalls, check whether iTunes is displaying some kind of message box.
You might consider configuring iTunes to not copy tracks into its media folder when they are added to the library. This can save a lot of disk space. You can set this option in the 'Advanced' section of iTunes' Preferences window.
[ Top ]To declick some or all of your albums in a single operation, select the ones of interest in the list and then select Scan Selected Albums for Clicks from the menu under the More button. You will be prompted for the scan settings to be used and then VinylStudio will perform the scan. For more information on what the various scan settings do, please refer to the Scan for Clicks help topic. Each album side takes about 1 minute on a modern computer.
To normalise some or all of your albums in a single operation, select the ones of interest in the list and then select Normalise Selected Albums from the menu under the More button. You will be prompted for the volume level to be used and then VinylStudio will set to work with no further manual intervention required. Processing time varies depending on what filters you have selected for the albums in question. The Hiss filter is particularly CPU-intensive.
