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A Thousand Words
It's true. A picture really can be worth a thousand words. And it's especially true with programs like this new Playlist Manager & Ripper because they do so many things. It's better to see the screens to make it clearer. As you look below, I hope that you'll see the parts, angles and buttons clearly so that you'll have a 100% clear understanding of just what this product can do for you. Products don't get reviewed unless I think they're good. I hope my pictures help you determine if you agree or not. . . Drew
512 Megabytes And It's Tiny In Your Hand
Look how small it is in my hand. The big top mounted buttons let you choose the important functions. But the multifunction 1 finger button really let's you control all the music while you are actually listening. And the display is super bright and fully adjustable so you'll easily see it anywhere.

Lots of MP3 players look small in pictures, but between seeing this one in my hand above and next to the quarter here, you can see just how small the MP3 Player really is. You'll love carrying it with you. And with 1 full Gigabyte of RAM, you'll have about 16 hours of music to choose from.
Crystal Clear Displays Show You Everything.
It's much more than just an MP3 player. You have a full 1 Gig of RAM. You can see the actual song name plus it even supports lyrics if you want to sing along. And you can see the bitrate, the folder you are in and the EQ settings you've chosen. And you'll see it all on the super sharp Backlit LCD Display.
Built In Playlist Manger - Unique
OK, this is special. With just about all tiny MP3 players, you load in your tracks and listen to them in the loaded order. You can skip from track to track. But that's it. This unique MP3 breakthrough, has a built in playlist manager. You can just view, choose and listen to your tracks by the artist, by the album or by the song. And it supports folders, so you can have one folder for each album and keep really organized and listen to just the songs you want. You FINALLY have real control over your music. This is unique. This will really make the difference.
For Voice Recording, Here's One Of Your Quality Choices
For voice recording, you've got choices. You can have Fine, good and average. Unless you really do want 32 hours of recording, Fine gives you great quality sound.
2 Of You Can Listen. Plus ADD More tracks with SD Cards
Most MP3 players let one person listen. This advanced MP3 Player, give you dual outputs so you and a friend can listen. And, BOTH sets of ear buds are included. It's great.

PLUS ADD MORE TRACKS. Sure 1 Gig is a lot. it's over 400 songs. But you can plug in SD cards for an unlimited continuous musical extravaganza. Just plug in cards and you'll have every song you own with you wherever you go.
Direct USB Export From Your Computer To The Tune Tosser
DIRECT EXPORT TO MP3 PLAYERS.
No need to go looking for a folder with your tracks and then open the folder of your USB MP3 player. Just load the tracks you want in the Playlist Manager.
Of course you'll want to have used preserved track order so that they will play in your MP3 player in the correct order. Then just choose Copy To Media and navigate to your USB MP3 player. That's it. You'll get a digital copy automatically sent into your USB attached MP3 Player. No fuss. No muss. Just click and it's done.
Plug In Anywhere
Want to add tracks but don't have your cable? No problem. The Pop Out USB jack plugs into any PC. You can add tracks or exchange files wherever you are. You'll never loose that cable with this unit. Of course we ship a cable along with the MP3 player, but I really like using the built in Pop Out jack because I never have to look for anything.
DAK's NEW
PLAYLIST MANAGER & CD RIPPER 10+ AUDIO TOOLS
FIRST, PRESERVE TRACK ORDER WONDER
The problem. Windows sorts all the tracks on your computer, in your MP3 player and when your burn CDs alphabetically.
That's not the order you want for your musicals, symphonies or any of your tracks to be in. For a musical, you want the overture as the first track.
For a symphony, you want the first movement. And for your favorite, folk, jazz or rock songs, you want your tracks in the order they were in on the CDs, LPs or cassettes.

Till now, this was an unfixable Windows problem. Now, when you EITHER rip a CD or open a group of files from your hard disk, the Preserve Track Tool will assign a number prefix in front of the track name so that even when Windows sorts it, your track will stay in perfect order.
It looks like this:

01My Track Name
02My Track Name.

But that's not all. If you have tracks from different albums you can tell the Preserve Track Tool to assign a common Prefix so all the tracks stay not only in track order, but with the album they belong too like this:

FirstAlbum 01Track Name
FirstAlbum 02Track Name
SecondAlbum 01Track Name
SecondAlbum 02Track Name
DAK puts your tracks in perfect order and keeps them there in your computer, when you copy your tracks to MP3 players and when you burn CDs. This is a major new breakthrough in Digital music enjoyment.
PRESERVE TRACK ORDER IN ACTION
Here's a real life EXAMPLE you can do it yourself of Windows Sorting that ruins your enjoyment of the music. I took my copy of Phantom Of The Opera and Ripped it to my computer. What you see on the left is the actual ripped results that I got and you would get too. As you can see the Overture came out as track 7.
IT'S THE SAME WHEN YOU COPY LPs, CASSETTES or anything onto your computer. Windows by default will put it in alphabetical order AND THERE'S NO SOLUTION that I've found till now.
On the right, you'll see DAK's Preserved Track Order in Action. It adds a small numerical prefix in front of the name that tricks windows into keeping your tracks in the exact order that you want them.
It's simple. It's fast and you can have it added EITHER when you rip CDs, or use the Playlist Manager to PERMANENTLY CREATE TRACK ORDER that will never change. It's a whole new world of finally having your music stay in the order it's supposed to be in from now on. Plus below you'll see how easy it is to add a prefix that will also keep all tracks from an artist or album together and still in track order too.
PRESERVE TRACK ORDER IN ACTION- WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
Here's how it really looks. When you use either the Ripper or the Playlist Manager.

Arrow 1 Just choose MP3 or Wave

Arrow 2 can be your PREFIX. In this case I am using the Album Name as my prefix. This is my favorite folk group, the Limeliters and this is their album Harmony.
Arrow 3 shows you the DAK TRACK PRESERVING number. This is track 14 and it will always be track 14 of this album. Windows can never change it. And it won't be confused with track 14 of some other album because of the Harmony Prefix.
Finally, Arrow 4 is the Actual Track Name. This is what you really care about and now it's in the order it's supposed to be in. Now you'll listen to your music just as it was supposed to be listened to. It's all up to you. And now, it's all easy.


PRINT TRACKS PLAYLISTS INSTANTLY
This is big. Sure using your burner software you can often print a track list when you burn a CD. But there's been almost no way to print a track list for the tracks you keep on your computer or load into an MP3 player.
And, with several hundred tracks going into an MP3 player these days, how will you ever know what you have?
Now just load the tracks in the Playlist Manager. There's nothing special to do. If the tracks are on your computer, you can load any MP3s and Wav files.
Anyway Click Print and you'll instantly have the entire list in Window's Notepad. Then just click Notepad Print for a printed list, or save the file and you can import the text file into any fancy label printing program you might have. Any good one does have import.
You'll really appreciate the printed tracks. I carry the printed track lists in my car for my 12-disc changer and in my brief case for my MP3 player.

Plus it's great to have on my computer so I can instantly search it to see where a particular song is located. This is a great tool.
NORMALIZE TRACK VOLUMES
So what is Normalize really? OK when you record copies of your LPs, cassettes and CDs, they usually all have different volumes. Oh, all the tracks on any CD, LP or cassette are usually the same, but no two are identical.
That means that when you burn a compilation CD, that you'll constantly be adjusting the volume as you listen. One track is too loud the next too soft.
Well, no more. Just direct the Playlist Manager Normalize tool to make all of the volumes the same and you'll see it run through the tracks twice.
It first evaluates the volume of a track and then it matches it to the prior tracks. It's a remarkable set of algorithms that will really enhance your listening pleasure from now on.
NAME AND RENAME YOUR TRACKS
Everyone has been asking for this. When you create a bunch of tracks, how do you easily rename the tracks without going through the tiresome Windows Rename process. Well, I've made it super easy.
First. When you are ripping, just click on the track number or name and type over whatever is there. You can type over it whether it's just a track number or even when the program has found the track name for you automatically.
Second OK, so you've got a bunch of tracks on your hard drive and you want to rename them. Just load them in the Playlist Manager. Then highlight any track, click on Rename and type away into the box. It's just that easy.
Plus, you can play any to be sure it's the track you want to rename. It's quick. It's easy and now you can easily name and rename any .WAV or MP3 track on your computer.

NOTE: Above I've added onto the name. But you can rename, add on or do anything you want. Every character is yours to command.

CONVERT WAV TO MP3 AND MP3 TO WAV
Nothing to it and very, very fast. Just choose Convert from the menu and all the tracks in the current Playlist will be copied to the other format. No hassle. No effort. Just click convert and you'll get a new folder of converted tracks.
So if you have Waves for CDs and want to now convert to MP3s, it won't be a pain any more.

DIRECT EXPORT TO MP3 PLAYERS.
No need to go looking for a folder with your tracks and then open the folder of your USB MP3 player. Just load the tracks you want in the Playlist Manager.
Of course you'll want to have used preserved track order so that they will play in your MP3 player in the correct order. Then just choose Copy To Media and navigate to your USB MP3 player. That's it. You'll get a digital copy automatically sent into your USB attached MP3 Player. No fuss. No muss. Just click and it's done.
CREATE M3U PLAYLISTS
OK let me explain. This is in addition to the Preserve Playlist Tool described above. This is a way to have your tracks played by an automated Window's Jukebox. And you'll pick only the tracks you want in exactly the order you want them to play.
You see, an M3U Playlist is an internationally used little bit of code that tells Window's jukeboxes like Windows Media Player, Musicmatch, Winamp and more to play certain tracks in a certain order.
What's neat is that it works automatically almost anywhere. So once you have a set of tracks with an M3U code snipit, you're all set.
Note 1:The Playlist Manager creates the snipit for you. Just name it. There's nothing you need to do. Then you'll see an Icon on your desktop or in a folder that you can click that will launch most default music players and you'll see all your tracks in the list played in the order that you want.
Note 2: You aren't restricted to one Playlist. You can have the same track in 10 Playlists if you like. So you can have a Playlist by artist, one by mood or anything. Just create the M3U file and you're all set. Your music will play just the tracks you want in just the order you selected.
Note 3: Our optional CD burner below will operate form Playlists too, which makes it just about unique. So, once your tracks are set, you can even burn CD copies of them too.
CREATE & EDIT ID3v2 TAGS
MP3 files can have lots of information associated with them. Wave files and tracks on your CDs have none. Most people think that CDs actually have the track names on them, but they really only have the track numbers and no names. To get the names, our Ripper for example goes to a special part of the Internet and finds them.
But with MP3 tags you can have the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. And that's why you see the title, artists, album and things like genre moving across the screen as you listen to MP3 files. We fully support the ID3v1 and now the ID3v2 tags. You can read, edit and add tags to any MP3 file with this powerful MP3 Audio File Tag Editor.
The DAK CD RIPPER - Actually A Separate Program We Sold Alone!
This is a whole program in itself that I used to sell separately before we had the preserve track order super feature. And I've got a whole review of it by itself if you want to read it. Here's a link.

In short this is about the only Ripper ever that:

1.) Preserves Track Order when you rip.
2.) Automated Track Naming. It goes out to the Internet and identifies most tracks on most CDs. Then when you rip the track, the actual track name will be the name of the MP3 or Wav file that you save.
3.) Add a Prefix to each track name so you can keep an album's tracks together in your computer, in your MP3 player and when you burn CDs.
4.) Rip to Wave and MP3
5.) Gives you BOTH fixed bitrates between 8Kbits and 320Kbits and also variable bitrates anywhere in between.
6.) Allows renaming of tracks by simply overtyping anything that's there.
7.) Rip All and Rip None for easy ripped track selection.

It's fast. It's super easy to use. It's easily worth the entire price by itself. This is the most powerful ripper I've ever used.
SET MP3 BITRATE PLUS VARIABLE BITRATE TOO
128Kbit sampling frequency is pretty much the industry standard. And it's the default for our CD Ripper. Some people think that 192Kbit sounds better, but frankly it's also a bigger file so I use 128 myself.

Why do you care? MP3 is all about file size. If you don't have room for WAV, then you use MP3. The bigger the file, the better it sounds. Our Ripper let's choose as high as 320Kbit/second which frankly is just as big as Wav files. For most music, just use 128 or at most 192Kbits.

But what if you've got spoken word or a telephone recording? Then you can reduce the bitrate all the way down to 8Kbit. It's very low quality, but fine for voice. And you can get hundreds of hours in a very small space.

One more thing. I didn't show the picture here, but you can also use variable bitrates. And that's pretty neat. What that does is let you choose a higher bitrate like 192Kbit as the maximum bitrate. Then the program will lower the bitrate whenever the music isn't too intense. So you end up taking a lot less space and still have the higher bitrate when needed for really dramatic music.

Now you know more about bitrate than maybe you ever wanted to know. But the DAK CD Ripper gives you all the options to enjoy your music.
CREATE TRACK NAME PREFIXES
What are prefixes and why are they important. After you've named tracks, you want to keep track of groups of tracks. By putting a common prefix in front of the track name, you can easily group all tracks that come from an album or are preformed by an artist.
This might not seem important till you go to load your tracks in an MP3 player, play them with the jukebox software in your computer or burn CDs.
By using the prefixes all of the tracks with a common prefix name (album name) and will always stay together and you'll know them as a group.
It's always been hard to do, but now with both DAK's Ripper and Play List Manager, just type the prefix you want in the box and every track in the Playlist will be saved with that prefix.
And there's more. The prefix comes before the DAK Preserved Track Number Order system, so you'll have all the tracks in order by the prefix and then in sub-order by the actual track number.

Prefix_TrackNumberTrack Name
Phantom_01Overture
Phantom_02Think Of Me
It works great and it couldn't be easier to have the program create them or for you to use the prefixed tracks after they are created from now on.
 
 
A Quick NOTE About My Pictures.
Some of the pictures aren't as sharp as I'd put in the print catalog. You see I have to cut back their files sizes or this page would never load (especially if you're on a dial up modem).
The technical side is that I'm shooting JPEGS at 80-100 percent quality and I cut them back to 50-60% and pretty much limit them to 600 pixels in width or less so that they'll fit on your monitor and load reasonably fast. In short, each picture is about 450,000 bytes when I shoot it and 20-40,000 bytes here on the page. A picture for the catalog is about 6,000,000 bytes.
I've created this page using separate tables for each picture so that you don't have to wait for everything to load in order to start looking. The picture captions will display first and then the pictures (usually starting at the top, but not always due to the way your computer interprets the web).
BUT HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE. I don't feel you can really know about a product unless the pictures are big and clear enough for you to really see (almost touch). Then you'll know what you're getting. So in my print catalogs the pictures can be sharper, but on the web I can show you a lot more angles, sides and parts of each product. I hope this helps. If I ever forget to show you some part of the product that you want to see, Email me at DrewKaplan@DAK.com and I'll do my best to add it to the page quickly.
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