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In 2 speaker or earphone mode you will see two dots and in 4 speaker modes you

will see four dots. You can also select other effects patterns by right-clicking on the

visual display and choosing from the list of available graphic effects.”

RIPPING (RECORDING) FROM A CD

1. Place an audio CD in your computer’s CD-ROM drive.

2. In normal mode, select the Play/Rip CD tab (from the Media Manager

panel).Your computer’s CD drives are displayed on the Play/Rip CD page.

3. Specify the CD drive containing the audio CD (from the drop-down list located

above the track list).The CD’s tracks are displayed,and SIREN attempts to

access information for the CD. If the CD information does not appear, you can

obtain the CD information by clicking the CDDB button, or you can add the

information manually in the Play/Rip CD page. If the CD information is not

accessed or added manually, SIREN rips the songs as “Unknown” and numbers

them sequentially.

4. Select the song(s) to be ripped.

5. From the File menu, choose Rip to Library. SIREN begins ripping files to the

folder specified in the Preferences dialog, and a meter in the Status column

depicts the progress of the ripping.

6. To halt ripping at any time, choose Cancel Ripping from the File menu.

7. To monitor the ripping progress, select Encoding List from the Play/Rip CD

page drop-down list,or, if Tree View is enabled, double-click on the Encoding

List folder.

Note:You can play media from the media library while you are ripping CDs, but you

cannot listen to the CD itself during ripping.

DDITIONAL HELP

For more detailed information about SIREN XPress features, please refer to the

online Help file accessible from SIREN’s normal mode by choosing Contents and

Index from the Help menu.

For additional information on other Sonic Foundry products, visit

www.sonicfoundry.com.

Media Files

A media file refers to any audio and video file that SIREN will play from your com-

puter. SIREN supports the following media file formats: .wav, .mp3, .wma, .pca, .aif,

.ogg, .avi, .wmv, .asf, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .qt.

Finding Media

After you install SIREN XPress,a configuration wizard will scan your local hard drives

for any .mp3 and .wma files and add them to your SIREN XPress media library. If

you are unable to play media or use the transport controls for SIREN XPress after

the installation process, you can manually run the Configuration Wizard from

SIREN’s normal mode by choosing Configuration Wizard from the Options menu.

You can also search your hard drive(s) for media to add to your media library any

time by choosing Search Computer for Media from the Options menu.

Playing Media

SIREN will allow you to play .mp3, .wma,.wav ,.pca, .aif, .ogg, .avi,.wmv, .asf, .mpg,

.mpeg, .mov, and .qt files, as well as audio CDs. You can start playing media

immediately by clicking on the Play button in either compact or normal mode.

Playing media by type

With the compact mode expanded, click on the “Play Media from” button. From the

menu that displays,you can select your media by library views, album, artist, genre, or

playlist,or choose to play an audio CD.

RAPHIC EFFECTS

SIREN XPress displays dazzling visual effects during audio playback. SIREN XPress

defaults to the special Seismic Edge visual which represents the six distinctly different

channels of sounds generated by the Seismic Edge. With this effect selected you will

see up to six dots, one corresponding to each speaker channel pulsating to the

sound coming from the corresponding channel. For example in 5.1 speaker mode

you will see these six dots:

Top center dot - center channel Top left dot - left front channel

Top right- dot - right front channel Center dot - LFE/Subwoofer channel

Bottom left dot - left rear channel Bottom right dot - right rear channel

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