Playing Media in PowerDVD > Playing Music > Playing Audio Discs and Music in the Library

To play back audio in CyberLink PowerDVD, do one of the following:

Note: when you play music in CyberLink PowerDVD, it continues to play if you view photos and play slideshows, and browse through media on the other tabs. Playback stops if you start movie file, video, or movie disc playback.

•insert an audio CD into your disc drive and CyberLink PowerDVD will play it automatically. If there is a disc already in your disc drive when you opened CyberLink PowerDVD, click the My Computer tab in the media panel, browse to and select the disc drive, and then click play to begin playback.

Note: you can rip the audio on CD to your computer's hard drive using CyberLink PowerDVD. See Ripping Audio from a CD for more information.

•drag and drop audio files directly onto the CyberLink PowerDVD user interface.

•to play an audio file in your media library, select Music in the media panel, and then browse to the folder that contains your audio. Double-click on an audio file to begin playback.

•to play audio files on your hard drive, click the My Computer tab in the media panel, and then browse to the folder that contains your audio files. Double-click on an audio file to begin playback.

Note: you can also play audio files that are on a network (UPnP/DLNA/DTCP-IP) media server. See Playing Media Shared on a Device or Home Media (DLNA) Network for more information on playing media on a network.

Ripping Audio from a CD

In CyberLink PowerDVD you can rip* the audio from an audio CD. To rip an audio CD using CyberLink PowerDVD, do this:

Note: * this feature is not available in some editions of CyberLink PowerDVD 18.

1.Place the audio CD in the disc tray and then close it.

2.If required, select Music in the media panel to display the tracks on the CD.

3.Click the Rip CD button.

4.In the Rip CD dialog, ensure that the artist and album information is correct. You can modify the Artist, Album, and Genre fields if required.

Note: if the album art is not displayed, just click on the album art box and then browse to and locate an image on your hard drive to use it as the album art.

5.Select the tracks that you want to rip from the audio CD by ensuring the check box next to the track name is selected.

6.Click the More Settings button to configure the rip audio settings as follows:

•Destination directory: set the folder on your computer where the ripped audio will be stored by clicking the Change button and selecting the new folder.

Note: if you select a folder that is not in media library, CyberLink PowerDVD will auto add the folder and the ripped audio into the media library for you.

•Format: select the preferred audio file format of the ripped audio.

•Bitrate: set the quality of the ripped audio files.

Click OK to close the More Settings dialog.

7.Click the Rip button to rip the audio from CD and import it into the media library.