Save Tracks as MP3 Files (and other 'Batch' Operations)

Clicking on the Save Tracks tab will take you to the Save Tracks window. In this window, you can:

Saving Tracks as MP3 Files

VinylStudio 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 copied out to your MP3 player or memory stick.

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, delete any existing ones first.

You can also save tracks in WAV format. To do this, right-click in the list or click on the 'More' button. You can 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:

    My Documents
        My Music
            My Collection

You can change this in the Configuration dialog under the Options menu. You can also browse the folder from this dialog and you can change the quality setting which is used for MP3 encoding.

If you record to MP3 format, VinylStudio tries to save MP3 tracks without decoding and re-encoding the audio. This improves fidelity and speeds the process up considerably, but it means that the MP3 quality used to save the files is the same as that used when the recording was made in the first place, resulting (usually) in larger files than you might want. To force VinylStudio to use the quality setting set in the Configuration dialog, turn at least one filter. The rumble filter will do the trick, and you can turn it on in the Cleanup Audio window (click on the 'Filters' button in the toolbar beneath the waveform display).

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.

Copying Files to your MP3 Player

To copy tracks to your 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. This will display 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 explorer windows 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.

Playing Files in Windows Media Player

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:

    My Documents
        My Music
            Playlists

(You can change this folder from the Configure 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. If you tell Media Player to monitor your My Music folder, all MP3 files that VinylStudio (or any other program) generates will be added to the library automatically.

'Batch' Declick (and other Batch Operations)

To declick some or all of your albums in a single operation, select the ones of interest in the list above 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 PC.