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Contents

Introduction 4
Getting Started 5

System Requirements 5
Installing Discribe 5

Getting Technical Support 8
Overview 9

A Word About CD-R and CD-RW 9

Discribe’s Quick Start Menu 10

Making an Audio CD 11
Creating A Data CD 18
Copying a CD 22

Discribe Pull-Down Menus 24

File Pull-Down Menu 24
Utilities Pull-Down Menu 27
Web Pull-Down Menu 27

Discribe’s Other Functions 29

Macintosh HFS 30

Multi-Session Macintosh HFS CD-ROMs 33

ISO-9660 35
ISO-9660 XA 39

A Word About Multi-Session ISO-9660 XA CD-ROM Discs 42

Audio CD 43

Sequencing Audio Tracks 44
Setting Audio Tracks Pre-Gaps 45

Build-A-Mac HFS 48
Mac/ISO Hybrid 51

Setup of Data 51
ISO and Shared Portion of Hybrid 53

Disc Copy Image 56

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Creating an Image 56
Writing the Saved Image to CD 56

CD to CD-RW Copy 57

Select Your Read Device 57

CD Extra 59
Video CD 61
DVD Video/Audio 64

Universal Disk Format (UDF) 68
Troubleshooting 71
Glossary of CD and DVD Terms 75
Supported Drives 99

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Introduction

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Introduction

DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software

Thank You for purchasing CharisMac Discribe, the Ul­timate CD Recording software! Discribe was designed
to allow you to easily take advantage of all the features
of your CD recorder. You can do some amazing things
with Discribe. Like to make music? You can record a
music CD from any combination of MP3/AIFF/SDII/
WAV files, or even live audio from the included Audi­oScribe application. Discribe supports the full range of
CD-R/RW dri ves that hav e been in the market ov er the
past few years, including ATAPI/EIDE, SCSI, USB,
and Firewire (IEEE1394) interface drives.

Novice and experienced users alike will find Discribe
easy and intuitive to use. For users new to CD record­ing, the Discribe Quick Start provides a unique “Anti­Wizard” interface that can create a CD in as few as 2
mouse clicks. The Quick Start performs the common
CD recording tasks: CD-to-CD copies, Audio CD cre­ation from any combination of MP3/AIFF/SDII/WAV
files or CD tracks, and Data CD-ROM creation.

By clicking the “close window” button on the Quick
Start screen, you enter the Discribe Main Application.
Here you will find an advanced CD creation environ­ment that will give you flexibility in creating your CD
projects. For example, when you create an audio CD in
the full application, you can rearrange or rename
tracks, change the name of your CD, record in Disc­At-Once mode, and more. In the full application you
can also create advanced format CDs such as Mac/
ISO9660 Hybrid discs. Be sure to visit the Charismac
website often for updates to the Discribe software.
www.Charismac.com

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Getting Started

System Requirements

Before installing Discribe, check that you have these
minimum system requirements:

Internet access is recommended to take advantage of
all Discribe’s features.

Installing Discribe

Before installing Discribe please take the following
precautions:

Getting Started

• Power PC or greater Macintosh

• 32Mb RAM

• Quicktime 2.0 or better (Quicktime 4.0 or higher
recommended)

• Supported CD recorder (for the most current list,
please visit www.charismac.com)

• Mac OS 8.0 (Mac OS 8.6 or newer recommended,
depending on CD recorder)

• Remove any non-Apple and third party CD-ROM
Drivers. We recommend you remove any CD­ROM driv er e xtensions from other manuf acturers.
The included CD-ROM Extension is capable of
supporting virtually all SCSI, AT API and USB CD­ROM and CD-R/R W drives on the mark et allowing
you to use one CD driver for all of your CD-R OM
and CD-R/RW devices, including the original CD­ROM drive provided by Apple.

• If installing software for USB or Firewire based
CD recorders, you may want to remove any third
party USB or Firewire drivers, or e xtensions. These
drivers may lead to conflicts, which can cause your

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recorder to not be seen by the Discribe software.

Discribe must be installed on a hard disk. Once you
have installed the software, store the original program
CD-ROM in a safe place.

1. Disable any unnecessary extensions and restart
your Macintosh prior to installing Discribe. In
some cases, extensions may interfere with the soft­ware installation process, causing the Macintosh to
generate errors and forcing a restart.

2. Insert the Discribe Installation CD-ROM in your
system’s CD-ROM drive.

3. If the Discribe CD-ROM window does not open
automatically, double click the CD-ROM icon to
open the window.

4. Double-click on the Discribe Installer file icon.
Follow the on-screen instructions, read and agree
to the end user license agreement.

5. Select the type of installation according to the
hardware type you have. For example, if you own
only a Firewire CD-RW drive, just select the “Dis­cribe for Firewire Drives” installation option.

6. Once you’ve selected the proper software installa­tion type, click Install.

7. Select a location for the Discribe folder to be in­stalled and click the
will be installed to their proper locations.

8. Once the installation has completed, click Quit.

9. Restart your Macintosh to complete the installa­tion.

Discribe is now installed!

Install

button. All components

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Getting Started

NOTE

Note: Please T ake A Moment T o Complete Y our Registr ation Card
And Drop It In The Mail, or register online at www.charis­mac.com/Register. Registration Entitles Y ou To T echnical Support
and Product Upgrades.

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Getting T echnical Support

CharisMac is serious about customer satisfaction. If you
encounter difficulty installing or using Discribe, please
do the following:

1. Check the troubleshooting section in this manual.
The common problems and their solutions can be
found there.

2. Check the Charismac website for updated problems
and solutions, and for newer versions of the software
that corrects specific problems. www.charis­mac.com/Support/Discribe/. Or email sup­[e-mail].

3. For telephone technical support, please call 530-885-

4420. Before calling, please have your Macintosh
configuration (CPU, recorder make & Model, version
of Macintosh operating system) and a description of
the problem you are encountering.

NOTE

Note: When calling for support please be in front of the Macintosh
computer where the software is installed so the technical support
technician can easily assist you in resolving the problem.

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Overview

Overview

A Word About CD-R and CD-RW

CD-R

is the term used to denote CD-Recordable me­dia, or discs. CD-R discs are recorded permanently.
Once information is written, it cannot be erased. Data
can be added until the disc is full (see “Multi-Session
recording). CD-R media is good for creating archived
information that does not need to be changed, or for
distribution thanks to the rapidly declining price of
CD-R media over the past few years.

CD-RW

dia. CD-RW media allo ws your CD-R W dri ve to erase
the disc, and then write to the media again as your
backup scheme requires. CD-RW media is rated for
approximately one thousand complete writes to the
media (the actual number of writes may vary depend­ing upon type and brand of media). CD-R and CD-RW
drives differ only in the fact that CD-RW drives can
write to both CD-R and CD-RW discs.

CD-RW drives are also capable of erasing CD-RW
discs (through the Discribe interface) and allowing
you to write to them again. Discribe handles the writ­ing process to either CD-R or CD-RW media in the e x­act same fashion. The steps of writing to a CD are
exactly the same with the exception of which type of
media is inserted prior to the write process (CD-R or
CD-RW). With this in mind, the term CD-RW will be
used throughout this manual to denote a CD-Record­able device, disc or format.

Launching Discribe

Double click on the Discribe icon and you’ll be greet-

is the term used to denote CD-Rewritable me-

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ed by the Discribe splash screen. After a few seconds

the splash screen will give way to Discribe’s Quick
Start menu.

Discribe’s Quick Start Menu

While unlike a traditional “wizard” this menu allows
for quick and easy selection of the most commonly
used functions:

burning Data CDs (HFS), Audio CDs and Disc Copy.

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Quick Start

Y ou’ ll also find buttons that provide you with addition­al information about your recorder and disc informa­tion for the disc in the recorder. Additionally, you can
extract audio tracks from CDs or launch AudioScribe;
the direct-to-disk recording application included with
Discribe.

To get started, you can make your selection from one
of the three main choices presented, drag files you
wish to write to CD to auto-select the disc format, or
you can click the Close Window box to reveal Dis­cribe’s other more powerful functions in Discribe’s
main window.

Making an Audio CD

For a brief overview of the software, let’s start by
clicking the
face changes.

Audio CD

button. Notice Discribe’ s inter -

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Adding Audio Tracks

Drag AIFF, MP3, WAV , Sound Designer II (SDII) files
or tracks from mounted Audio CDs to the windo w . You
can drag one or multiple files to the window in any
combination.

Files that are in MP3, WAV and SDII file format will
need to be converted into a file format that Discribe can
use to write to CD. Discribe will prompt you for a save
location for these files when they are dragged to the in­terface. Select the desired location and click the

“Your Location”

place. Once the conversion has completed, the newly
converted file will be added to your project.

button for the conversion to take

Select

NOTE

Note: AIFF Files will need to be in a specific format in order for
Discribe to accept them. Please be sure that your hard disk has
enough space for the converted files and that the files adhere to
the following guidelines:

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Quick Start

• Stereo

• 16 Bit

• 44.1 KHz

Tip: SDII, MP3 and WAV files will be converted into
this format, files added from a mounted audio CD do
not have to be converted, but can be con verted by hold­ing down the Command key when drag ging tracks fr om
a mounted audio CD to the interface. Discribe will
prompt you to find out where you would like the ex­tracted tracks saved to.

Click the
with an Audio Picker window.

This window will show all the tracks that have been
added to your current audio project. Y ou can add tracks
by clicking the
sired track, or you can remove tracks by selecting them
in the Audio Picker window and clicking the
button.

Audio...

Add...

button and you will be presented

button and navigating to the de-

Remove

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Sequencing Audio Tracks

Click the
with an Audio Picker window.

Click and drag the audio track to the desired location
within the Audio Picker window. You can select multi­ple files in the same way that the Finder’s ‘List’ view
works (click and drag or by Shift clicking on multiple
files).

Audio...

button and you will be presented

Setting Audio Tracks Pre-Gaps

Click the
with the Audio Picker window.

Discribe allows you to customize the pre-gap, or, the
space at the beginning of a track, from 0 to 9 seconds.
To set the pre-gap on a track or tracks, select the de­sired track(s) in the Discribe Audio Picker windo w and
click the pre-gap pop-up menu and select the desired

Audio...

button and you will be presented

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Quick Start

length of time.

NOTE

Note: The first audio track must have a pre-gap of two and is not
user definable. By default, Discribe will set the pre-gaps of tr acks
2 and higher to 2 seconds.

Previewing Audio Tracks

You can preview the audio within the track by select­ing the desired track and clicking the

Play

button.

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This also allows you to listen to the tracks and make
sure that the tracks are sequenced the way you want
them. Previewing also lets you listen to extracted
tracks for any audio artifacts that may have been intro­duced during the extraction process if the tracks were
saved to the hard disk. A speak er icon displays next to
the track you are previewing.

Writing the Disc

Once you have sequenced your tracks and set the de­sired pre-gaps, you are ready to write the CD. If you
are still in the Discribe Audio Picker window then
click the OK button to return to the main interface.
V erify that the correct CD-R W writer is selected, if it’ s
not, select it from the Recorder pop-up menu, then
click the
with a Write Options window.

Write Disc...

button. You will be presented

The Write Options window contains choices for the
following:

T est Write / Write

write or a simulated write to your media.

Write Speed

lected recorders write speeds. Defaults to the fastest

- Option allows for either an actual

- Allo ws for a selection of the current se-

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write speed that the current selected writer supports.

Open Next Session

disc open for another session to be written later.

V erify After Writing

discs to be verified against the original to ensure that
the copy and the original are the same.

Using BURN-Proof/JustLink

take advantage of drives using BURN-Proof/JustLink
type technologies. If your CD-RW drive does not sup­port BURN-Proof/JustLink writing this option will be
grayed out.

In Background

CDs in the background, leaving your Macintosh free
for other tasks. This option is available only with
BURN-Proof/JustLink drives by default. See Prefer­ences for more information.

Once you’ve set your options in the Write Options
window, click the
cess. When the write completes you’ll hear Discribe’s
completion tone and your recorder will eject the fin­ished CD.

- Writes to the disc leaving the

- Allows freshly written data

- Allows Discribe to

- Options allows Discribe to write

Start

button to begin the write pro-

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Creating A Data CD

DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software

From Discribe’s Quick Start menu click the
button.

Notice the change in Discribe’s interface. You can pro­ceed by doing one of the following:

Drag and Drop Directly to the Discribe Windo w

Drag the data you wish to write to CD from your hard
disk to the Discribe window. Notice the Size of the
data and the Time reflect the data that’s been dragged

Data CD

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into the window.

Click the Data... Button

Click the
Picker window. Here you can drag files from the desk­top to the picker window. The Macintosh HFS Picker
window acts much like the list view in a Finder win­dow, allowing you to rename and move files and fold­ers around to suit your needs.

Data...

button to reveal the Macintosh HFS

T ake note that the CD name is listed as, “Untitled,” be
sure to change the name as this will be the name of
your finished CD when it mounts on the desktop. To
edit a filename or the CD’s title you can single click an
item to highlight the name, or double click it and a

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name editing window will appear.

Macintosh HFS Picker Options

Resolve Aliases

files will be resolved to the original when they’ ve been
added into the Macintosh HFS Picker window.

- When this option is checked alias

New Folder

the Macintosh HFS Picker window.

Add...

Picker window by clicking the

Remove

Macintosh HFS Picker window

Cancel

window without saving any changes

OK

- Saves changes to the current project.

- Creates a new , “Untitled Folder ,” within

- Y ou can add a single file to the Macintosh HFS

Add...

button.

- Removes the selected file or files from the

- Returns you to the main Discribe software

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Writing the CD

Once the data has been added and arranged to your sat­isfaction just click OK to return to the Discribe main
window. Verify that the correct CD-RW writer is se­lected then click the

Set up your options for Write/Test Write, Open Next
Session, Write Speed, Verify After Writing, Using
BURN-Proof/JustLink and In Background, then click
the Start button to begin the write process.

A Word About Multi-Session Macintosh

HFS CD-ROMs

There is nothing special that needs to be done to write
multiple Macintosh HFS sessions to a CD other than
selecting the Open Next Session option in the Write
Options Screen.

Write Disc...

button.

NOTE

Note: Macintosh HFS multi-session CD-ROMs can really be
called multi-volume. When a multi-session Macintosh HFS CD­ROM is mounted an icon for each Macintosh HFS session written
to the CD will mount on the desktop. T o eject the CD you will need
to drag all of the CD icons to the trash.

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Copying a CD

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From the Discribe Quick Start menu click the

CD

button. Notice the change in Discribe’s interface.

Select the Source Drive

Under Source will be listed a pop-up menu that states,
“No reader selected. ” Select the driv e (other than your
CD-RW drive) to be used as the read source for your
original CD. If no CD is within the drive it will prompt
you to insert a disc to read, or you can use Command­. (period) to cancel. Once a disc is inserted into the
source drive Discribe will display the size of the disk
and/or the total time of the disc.

Copy a

Click the

Disc Info...

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button to view information about

Quick Start

the current CD in the Source drive.

Writing the CD

Verify that the correct CD-RW writer is selected then
click the
log will show up.

Write Disc...

button. The Write Options dia-

Set up your options for T est Write, Ignore Read Errors,
Using BURN-Proof/JustLink, Write In Background,
Write Speed, Cache Disc to File Before Writing, and
Verify After Writing, then click the
gin the write process.

Start

button to be-

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Discribe Pull-Down Menus

A quick overview of all of Discribe’ s pull-down menus
reveals many useful functions:

File Pull-Down Menu

Open Project

project file

Save Project

a file

Save Project As...

new name that you specify

Begin Again

menu

Preferences

- Open a previously saved Discribe

- Saves the current Discribe project into

- Saves the current project with a

- Returns you to the Discribe Quick Start

- Allo ws you to define certain parameters

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with Discribe according to your specific needs:

Preferences: Application Startup

Show Disable Inits Warning

checked a warning will appear each time Discribe
is launched reminding you to disable any unneces­sary extensions prior to burning a CD.

- When this box is

Show Quick Start

Quick Start screen will appear after the Discribe
application is launched. Disabling this preference
will take you directly to the Main Application win­dow upon the launch of the Discribe software.

Preferences: Default Project Settings

Show times in Min:Sec:Frames

is checked audio track information will be dis­played in the format minutes first, followed by sec­onds and frames.

Delete cached audio files when done

this box will cause Discribe to delete any extracted

- When this box is checked the

- When this box

- Checking

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audio tracks, whether AIFF, MP3, WAV or SDII
created during the audio extraction process.

Default to Disc-at-once audio

checked audiodiscs will be burned in Disc-at-once
audio format. Unchecking thebox will result in
Track-at-once burns.

Default Pregap

tween audio tracks for default operation. Times can
still be customized in Discribe’s Audio Picker win­dow .

Preferences: Advanced Writing Settings

Enable Background Writing on all Drives (Not
Recommended)

use this option with extreme caution. Extended
lengths of time holding down the mouse button or
launching processor intensive applications can
cause writes to fail. We only recommend back­ground writing on BURN-Proof/JustLink enabled
CD recorders.

Save Folder Location for Disc to Disc Caching
File

-

Quit

- Quits Discribe and returns you back to the Find-

er

- Sets the amount of time to set be-

- Generally not recommended,

- When this box is

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Main Functions

Utilities Pull-Down Menu

Recorder Information

currently selected recorder

Disc Information

within the currently selected recorder

Extract Audio...

from a mounted Audio CD

Write Physical Image...

hard disk of the data in your current project.

Erase Disc...

it can be written to again

Eject Disc

CD-RW drive

Enable BURN-Proof /JustLink

Proof and JustLink Recording on CD-RW drives that
support this ability. Check with the manufacturer of
your drive to see if your drive supports this function

Web Pull-Down Menu

- Allows you to erase CD-RW media so

- Ejects the tray of the currently selected

- Shows information on the

- Shows information of the disc

- Allo ws you to Extract a single track

- Writes a physical image to

- Enables BURN-

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