Import Audio CD Dialog

To open the Import Audio CD dialog, select File > Import, and click Audio CD.

Functions Menu

CD Info: Displays the CD length and the UPC/EAN code, if available.
Extract ISRC Codes: Reads the ISRC codes and displays them in the track list. Depending on your CD drive, this can take a while.
Examine CD-Text: Opens the CD-Text dialog where you can view the CD-Text. Not all CD drives support CD-Text.
Extract CD-Text: Extracts the CD-Text and displays a summary in the track list.

Rename Tracks Menu

Name: Renames the tracks according to the selected renaming scheme.
Search Track Names on the Internet (FreeDb): Searches track names from an Internet database. If the album is found, the CD track list is updated.
Submit Track Names to the Internet (FreeDb): Submits the information about the audio CD to the FreeDb database of CD information.

Convert Menu

Convert All Tracks to Audio Montage: Extracts all audio CD tracks and uses them to create an audio montage.
Convert Selected Tracks to Audio Montage: Extracts the selected audio CD tracks and uses them to create an audio montage.
Convert All Tracks to Basic Audio CD: Extracts all audio CD tracks and uses them to create a Basic Audio CD.
Convert Selected Tracks to Basic Audio CD: Extracts the selected audio CD tracks and uses them to create a Basic Audio CD.

Actions Tab

Source: Select the CD drive from which you want to import audio CD tracks.
Speed: Allows you to set the writing speed. The highest speed depends on your writing device and on of the medium present in the device.
Refresh: If you insert a CD while the Import Audio CD dialog is open, you need to click this button to show the contents of that CD in the list.
Eject Optical Medium: Ejects the medium from the selected drive.
Track List: Shows the tracks on the CD.
Range – Start/Length: If you want to import only a section of a track, use the Start and Length fields to define a start point and length.
Output – Location: Allows you to set the output location.
Output – File Format: Allows you to set the output file format.
Select All: Selects all CD tracks in the track list.
Play: Plays back the selected CD track.

Options Tab

Trim Silence: If this option is activated, silence between imported tracks is removed. Only digital silence is removed, that is, samples with a zero level.
Automatically Refresh on CD Change: If this option is activated, WaveLab Pro checks for the presence of a new CD in the drive several times a second. If a new CD is found, the track list display is refreshed.
Automatically Extract ISRC Codes: If this option is activated, ISRC codes are automatically extracted when a CD is inserted.
Automatically Extract CD-Text: If this option is activated, CD-Text is automatically extracted when a CD is inserted.
Automatically Search Track Names on the Internet: If this option is activated, track names are automatically searched on the Internet when a CD is inserted.
Grab Pause before First Track (If Available): If this option is activated, when a section of audio is located before the first track, it is extracted together with the first track. This way, you can import hidden bonus tracks.
Use a Japanese CD-Text Decoder: If this option is activated, CD-Text is interpreted as Japanese the next time it is extracted.
Create Peak File: If this option is activated, a peak file is created together with the rendered files.
Show Times with CD Frame Units: If this option is activated, times are shown in CD frame units. There are 75 CD frames per second.
Play through Master Section: If this button is activated, the Master Section is ignored. If the button is deactivated, the audio is played through the Master Section.
Convert Titles and CD-Text to Metadata: If this option is activated when importing tracks into an audio format supporting metadata (for example, MP3 and WMA), the titles of the tracks and the CD-Text are automatically added to the file header.
Ultra-Safe Mode (Slow): If this option is activated, each CD track is read several times until the same result is found (checksums are used). Specify the number of times that a track must be read with the same result before it is saved to disk.
Real Audio Before and After Tracks: You can ensure that tracks are imported in their entirety by defining how much audio should be read before and after each CD track.