User`s guide
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USER'S GUIDE
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Recording From a CD
• Push the OPEN/CLOSE button on the front panel to open the CD tray.
• Place a CD in the tray label side up.
• Press the OPEN/CLOSE button on the front panel to close the tray.
The VIA!dj will now automatically attempt to retrieve information about the CD from the
Gracenote Music Recognition Service.
If you do not have an Internet connection, or the CD is not listed in the database, it will
be given names such as Album 35, Artist 21, and Track 1, Track 2 etc. and it will be
classifi ed in the Unclassifi ed Genre.
• Press the Menu button to display the Main Menu.
• Use the or buttons to select the CD Drive option.
• Press the Select button.
The CD Drive screen will display the contents of the CD:
• Press the Record button.
The Recording Quality options are displayed (unless Auto Quality is enabled).
• Use the or buttons to choose either Uncompressed WAV, or one of the
MP3 or WMA compression options.
Note: The higher quality options use more space on the VIA!dj Hard Disk, so you will
not be able to record as many CDs. The amount of recording time left is displayed at
the bottom of the screen as you scroll the compression options when recording a CD.
The following table shows the number of hours available at each recording quality de-
pending on the size of the Hard Disk Drive in your VIA!dj:
WAV High MP3 STD MP3 High WMA STD WMA
80GB 117 858 1287 1287 1716
160GB 240 1762 2643 2643 3524
250GB 378 2779 4169 4169 5559
400GB 605 4447 6670 6670 8894