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Note, that you do not need NeroLINUX’s bootable media creation capabilities in
order to make a disc image bootable. Those images are either bootable out of
their own right or they are not. See Section 3.3, ”Making an image bootable” for
further information.
4.2 The concept of Precaching
It is less common that people find themselves in the situation where they cannot
record an MP3 file to a CD because their computer simply cannot manage to
decode the MP3 stream as fast as their recorder needs its raw audio stream. But
just imagine you want to make a copy of a very old, worn out compact disc . No
CD-ROM drive will be able to read those CDs accurately within a time that would
satisfy your recorder.
In NeroLINUX, there is a way around this. You can enable precaching for a
particular track type in NeroLINUX's 'Preferences' which will then apply to any
track of that type. Alternatively, you can hold down your right mouse button when
dragging your files/tracks to the Track Editor. This concept also works for the file
system editor. Just imagine you want to create a backup of an old word
processor's installation discs. 1.44" Discs have always been inclined to forget
about their contents after a few years. Precaching the whole ISO9660 file system
will not prevent this because you need to change discs quite a few times while
creating the file system. Again, the solution is to just hold down your right mouse
key while adding the files on your discs, which will make NeroLINUX precache
those individual files.
4.3 Track to file conversion
While functionality to convert tracks to files is provided by most CD recording
programs, few let you decide as accurately as NeroLINUX, how you want them
converted. If you want to store your favorite audio CD's contents on your hard
disk as MP3 files, you can do the following: Drag and drop any track down to the
file system editor and it will be converted into its default file type automatically.
Dragging it with the right mouse button pressed will prompt you with a popup
menu to choose a specific file type to be created.
If you do not want to add your track to the file system editor but want to store it
into a directory on your hard drive, you can select all the tracks you want and
press the right mouse button. Simply select 'Encode Track as ...' in the popup
menu. You will be prompted for a destination directory and the file type you want
to convert to. Note that encoded files will automatically get their filenames set
appropriately if your computer is connected to a freedb server. ID3 Tags will be
set only if a tool called MP3info is installed on your system. Currently, only the
track editor, not the track lists in the source area have a popup menu attached to
them. In order to convert a track to a file you have to drag and drop it into the
track editor first.
Hint: You can also use NeroLINUX's file conversion scheme to convert existing
files of a certain type on your hard drive. Just drag and drop the files you want to