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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>