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For Windows®
PCs
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Rocks
Like Concrete
What's
New
Minii starts up faster and has a new progress bar with song
title and time remaining. Concrete
DJ has a new dashboard and sidebar buttons to hide stuff to make more space for
DJ playlists. Concrete
Media Merge Professional is now available separately.
The free version has a new tag editor and resampler that
exports all popular sound file formats to MP3 with updated tag info.
The Professional edition enables you to easily merge multiple music
collections into one. You can even "cherry pick" a
collection and merge only media files with complete tag information
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Using Concrete
Ripper™
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Concrete
Ripper rips MP3 sound files from CD with perfect tag
information in your choice of quality.
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Quick Start
If titles
and artists' names are how you want them, click the Rip
button. This will create your new sound files
in: C:\My Music Ripped.
If things
don't look right, as below, click Edit or Options
and select the fix for common problems. Fix
Artist _ Title in Title was used here and saved a lot
of typing.
Note:
Concrete Ripper automatically changes the "/"
slash to a "_" when encountered so what you see
is what you get because "/" can't be used in
file names.
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Get Ripping
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By far, MP3
is the recommended way to go when ripping. File
sizes are a bit smaller than WMA at comparable bit rates,
the format is more universal, and there are more ripping
options. MP3, WMA and OGG have more than just sound embedded.
They also have
information called tags to help you sort out your
collection. MP3 tags include artist, album title,
year, track number, genre, track title and comments.
Having the right tags is really important so you can find
what you want instantly. Note: Concrete Ripper
currently encodes tags for MP3 and OGG when ripping.
The
industry standard for digital files is artist - title.mp3,
like ACDC - Back In Black.mp3. In this case the
Artist tag should be ACDC. The Title tag should be
Back In Black. You can rename files to standard
manually or use Concrete
MediaMerge,
available with Concrete DJ and Self-DJ, to do it for you automatically.
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Start
Building A GREAT Music Collection
Most MP3
and other sound files you have were probably encoded at
too low quality or have wrong or missing tag information.
Fear not, you've got the tools now to take your music
collection to the next level.
- If you
have the CD, use Concrete Ripper to create perfectly tagged
sound files in your choice of quality.
- If you
don't, you can load ANY sound file you have into Concrete
Editor,
add or correct tag information, even remix, and export to MP3.
The best approach is to rip high quality sound
files in the first place using the Concrete
Ripper or record your own sound files with Concrete
Recorder.
If you want
to merge multiple media file collections into one, or
"cherry pick" only the best files, check out Concrete
MediaMerge.
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CD's With
"Various" Artists
When
manufacturers create the master CD for collections with
various artists, they often use a
"/" or "-" to separate artist name
and track title, store it in the Title tag, and then use
"Various" in the Artist tag. Since
"/" isn't a valid character in filenames,
ordinary rippers just substitute another character,
usually a "_", and keep right on ripping.
You wind up with media files with incorrect tag
information.
Not so with
Concrete Ripper, it
has special options for you to handle these problems, automatically.
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