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<sect1 id="audiocdcdreating">
<title>
Quickguide: Burning an Audio-CD in 4 Steps
</title>
<para>
This Quickguide shows you how to create a AudioCD with &k3b;. To reproduce
these steps you need a working &k3b; and a directory in which you have
audiofiles.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Step 1</title>
<para>
When you start &k3b; you should see something like this.
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Here you can select one of four projects &k3b; offers</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="select_project.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Screenshot</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Step 2</title>
<para>
Now you click on "New Audio CD Project"
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>This is a dialog where you can select which files you want to burn on a CD</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="select_audiofiles.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Screenshot</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</para>
<para>
The files you see on the top-part of &k3b; can be dropped with the mouse to the bottom-widget.
Another way is to right-click on a file an select <action>Add to Project</action>. In order to rearrange
the order of the audio-tracks you can simply move the tracks with the left mouse-button. The properties
of the tracks can be changed by clicking with the &RMB; and choosing <action>Properties</action>.
As soon as you like the arrangement of the tracks click on <action>Burn...</action> in the right-bottom
corner.
</para>
<note>
<para>
When you burn AudioCD from <acronym>MP3</acronym>s or other lossy compressed music, remember that if you encode this CD back to <acronym>MP3</acronym>, you'll get poorer quality regardless the bitrate you use. To check whether AudioCD was burnt from lossy format, try <ulink url="http://true-audio.com/analyzer.project">auCDtect</ulink>.
</para>
</note>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Step 3</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>This is a dialog where you can decide the settings for the CD.</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="burndialog_audio.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Screenshot</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
<para>
In this dialog you can control the settings of the burning itself. The default-settings of &k3b;
are probably correct for you. In the top-right corner you can control the speed. One last
step before the actual burning you can give the CD a title by choosing <guibutton>CD-Text</guibutton> and
selecting <guilabel>Write CD-Text</guilabel>. The two which are probably most important for you
are <guilabel>Title</guilabel> and <guilabel>Performer</guilabel>. As soon as you are content with
the settings click on <guibutton>Burn</guibutton>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Step 4</title>
<para>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>In this dialog you can see the progress of you burning</screeninfo>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="burndialog_progress.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject>
<phrase>Screenshot</phrase>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
In this dialog is nothing you can do. Just wait for you computer to finish the session.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>