User guide

Ripping CDs Part 1: About

If you would like to listen to tracks from a CD you own on your Wii, click on the RIP CD tab at the top of the screen.

Insert your audio CD in your CD ROM drive and wait a few seconds. The Media Manager may detect the CD automatically, if not, click the

REFRESH button to index the CD.

Ripping CDs Part 2: CDDB Lookup

The Media Manager includes the ability to connect to a CD Database to automatically retrieve and name the tracks on your CD (this will

only work on commercially available CDs, not home compilations). If you have an active Internet connection, you will see the names of the

tracks on your CD alongside their track number in the main window.

Ripping CDs Part 3: Selecting Tracks and Ripping

Use the check boxes alongside each track to choose which tracks to convert and copy to your Wii Memory Card. When you are ready,

choose either TO PC (to copy the track to the location on your PC specified in the FOLDERS tab of the OPTIONS menu) or TO SD to put the

MP3s or AACs directly onto your Wii Memory Card. You can also use this screen to play the tracks on your PC, or rename them before

ripping; just use the respective buttons next to each track in the list.

Ripping CDs Part 4: Recording Options

To the right of the window displaying the CD tracks are the Recording Options, which function as follows:

AAC Audio: By checking the box you can choose to convert audio tracks to the audio format AAC (required for Wii Photo Channel v1.1+).

VBR Encoding: By checking or unchecking the box, you can turn on or off the VBR (Variable BitRate) Encoding. This option lowers the

encoding rate when there’s very little going on during an MP3 or AAC track, so it reduces the resulting file size with little or no drop in

quality. Ripping the tracks takes a little longer when it’s activated, though.

Audio Sample Rate: You can set the audio sample encoding rate with the slider. The higher the encoding rate, the better the MP3 or AAC

sounds, but the larger the file size.

Destination: Click here to choose or create the destination folder for when you rip your CDs to your PC’s hard drive.

Use the capacity meter to ensure you have sufficient space on your Wii for the tracks you wish to rip.

Playing Back your MP3s or ACCs on your Wii

Because the Nintendo Wii lacks a dedicated music player, the only way to play back MP3s or ACCs is to use them as the background to a

slideshow. Simply put the MP3s or AACs you wish to play in a folder on your Memory Card, and add one or more jpegs. Transfer the card to

your Wii, and from the opening screen, go into Photo Channel, and watch the jpeg you put in the folder with your MP3s as a slideshow.

When in Slideshow Mode, select Settings to choose the background tunes, which can be one or all of the MP3s or ACCs stored in the folder

with the jpeg.

If you select to play all your MP3s or AACs, it will play them in the order in which they appear in the folder. If you want to play them in a

specific order, edit the file names by adding ‘01’ to the first track you wish to hear, ‘02’ to the second, etc.

The Wii Photo Channel version 1.1 and above does not support MP3 files and instead supports the audio format AAC. The Media Manager

for Wii does not convert files from audio formats such as mp3, aac, ogg vorbis or flac. In order to do this, you must use a separate audio

converter (not supplied).