User Manual HOFA DDP Player V1.0.12 - HOFA
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1. File Settings D Track BI Index Start 2 Pregap 2 Start 3 Pregap 5 Pregap Start 6 Pregap 6 Start n ini pE L Pregap Start 3 Pregap Start d Pregap Start Pregap Help CD time 00 00 03 23 03 25 06 57 06 59 10 25 10 27 14 46 14 48 Duration 03 23 00 02 03 32 00 02 03 25 00 02 04 18 00 02 03 54 00 02 03 52 00 02 03 08 00 02 UPC EAN 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 DBP Image C ini Gespenst_DDP_Image ISRC DEL211300838 DEL211300839 DEL211300840 DEL211300841 DEL211300842 Muss Seltsam Fast Gespenst Zeit 4020796447335 DEL211300843 6 Plan 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 4020796447335 DEL211300844 DEL211300845 DEL211300846 DEL211300847 DEL211300848 DEL211300849 DEL211300850 Auseinandergehn Lass Betrug Teilen Genug furtick Manchmal Album Tithe Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Gespenst Track Artist Album Artist ini ini Album Genre Pop mMm ree eee 20 05 e e HOFA DDP Player V1 0 4 User Manual HOFA DDP Player V1 0 12 Ho E A LE BT WO e ee Content Introductio araneae AEE E T A 2 aere EE2. Genre The CD Text entry Genre is identical in all rows as it is always valid for the whole CD The displayed order of the columns can be adjusted by moving them with the mouse By clicking on a marker line the current playback position will be set to this marker A double click will start playback The control panel The control panel is used for controlling playback and for starting the CD burning process The playback controls are just like on any CD player The lt lt and gt gt keys have double functions A short press will skip to the previous or next track start Holding them a longer time will fast forward or rewind Below the playback control buttons you can move the playback position inside the current track To make it easier to listen to track transitions the end of the previous and the beginning of the next track is also visible The time display shows the current playback position of the track and the whole CD Click on the display to toggle between current time and remaining time For an objective judgement of level loudness and stereo width HOFA DDP Player comes with a peak meter an EBU mode loudness meter and a goniometer The peak meter always shows a range of 60 dBFS up to O dBFS The maximum levels for left and right are shown above The EBU mode loudness meter lies between the l r peak meters Loudness is only shown as one value and not for left right according to EBU mode specifications Furth
3. used in eastern European languages like Polish or Turkish are missing Generally you should be aware that titles stored in CD Text will often be displayed on CD Players or car stereos that have only very limited displays Many of these devices will not show any special characters at all So you could think about avoiding special characters all and replace for example a German a by its equivalent ae Alternativaly the CD Text standard also allows for Japanese which is stored using the so called Shift JIS character encoding This encoding does not include the European special characters so a mixture of both is not possible As mentioned before not all CD Players that support CD Text will be able to display Japanese HOFA DDP Player will automatically recognize the encoding used in the DDP image and can also display CD Text in Japanese EBU R128 EBU R 128 is an EBU European Broadcasting Union standard defining guide values for loudness in broadcasting The origin of this standard lies in the increasing loudness in broadcasting and the dynamic variations resulting from that e g adds are often louder than regular program To counteract this loudness normalization was introduced aside with a referenced target level With EBU R 128 an open standard for loudness measurement was created Also new units LU and LUFS Loudness Unit Full Scale were introduced One LU is basically the same as one dB but describes a loudness measured acc
4. 3 8 E EE E Special characters in CD TeXt ccccccccccccsecsecsecsssssssessessessessessessesusssssssssssssssssssstsssssssssssess 14 EBUR EE EE 15 Eann E E EEE 16 Introduction Most people will not be able to do a lot with a DDP image For burning such an image to CD or even for listening to it you will need a specialized software that you will not find to be installed on most computers HOFA DDP Player is a simple and quite inexpensive alternative Installation To install HOFA DDP Player you will need the HOFA Plugins Manager which you can download here http hofa plugins de pages start_en downloads_ en php The HOFA Plugins Manager also allows installing all further products by HOFA Plugins which you can test for 14 days if you are interested Select Install in the field HOFA DDP Player By clicking Apply Changes the latest version of the software will be downloaded and installed to your computer If you have not yet bought the product you can test it for 14 days Click on Start Demo to start that 14 day period Please use the demo period before buying to make sure that HOFA DDP Player is compatible with your CD writer Important note for Windows XP and Vista users To burn CDs with HOFA DDP Player on Windows XP or Vista you may need a Microsoft update which is not installed automatically by Windows The update can be downloaded here 45c0 980a see 6710 ie ae anipiulieplaviang entdispiayianes
5. ansfer error 2 DDP a registered trademark of DCA Inc ISRC The ISRC International Standard Recording Code is an identifier that is unique for a track on a CD When the track is played on the radio this code can be used for managing license fees Normally this code is available on all commercial CDs The ISRC consists of two letters followed by a 10 digit number The single parts are Country code 2 letters e g DE for Germany Deutschland Registrant code 3 digits Year 2 digits Designation code 5 digits The ISRC Code is always provided by a registrant It always belongs to a certain recording of a song If a song is re released e g on a best of compilation it will keep its ISRC For a remix you will need to get a new code For further information have a look at http www ifpi org content section_resources isrc htm UPC EAN The UPC Universal Product Code or the EAN European Article Number used in Europe are the numbers under the bar code that you can find on the package of any product For automatic identification this number can also be stored within the CD data This code is also provided by a registrant It is a number with 12 UPC or 13 EAN digits CD Text CD Text is an extension to the red book standard which is supported by several CD players When playing a CD in your computer you should be aware that not every software player will show CD Text information Often the titl
6. ck is 4 seconds In most cases there are silent pauses between the tracks It is also possible to have a track change without a pause The pause between two tracks is called pregap It can contain absolute silence but it can also be filled with audio A CD player normally displays a negative time during the pregap which runs down to zero Furthermore there are subindex markers which can be used to mark a certain position inside the track These markers are not supported by all CD players In most cases they can only be displayed but it is not possible to jump to a Subindex directly Audio data is always stored with a sample rate of 44 1 kHz with 16 bit On the CD they are grouped in blocks of 588 samples so called frames One frame equals to a playing time of 1 75 second The markers for track start track end and subindex are always related to a frame So the minimum distance between two markers is 1 frame 1 75 second With HOFA DDP Player it is also possible to create CDs up to 99 minutes To write these special high capacity blank CDs are necessary and your CD writer has to support this feature Please ask your pressing plant which maximum length they allow Generally it can not be guaranteed that CDs with these lengths can be played back with every CD player 1 In fact the red book does not define a maximum playing time but a track distance with tolerances The first CDs had a maximum playing time of 74 minutes Meanwhile the productio
7. d in the U S and other countries Windows Media Player is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the U S and other countries
8. e information is downloaded from the internet which can differ from the information that is stored on the CD itself Windows Media Player as well as Apple iTunes do not show any CD Text information But there are freely available extensions and other players that make this possible For example For Windows VLC Media Player http www videolan org vic Winamp http www winamp com Extension for Windows Media Player http bmproductions fixnum org moreprogs wmpcdtext htm For Mac OS X Extension for iTunes http dougscripts com itunes scripts ss php sp cdtexttocdinfo drutil If you like it cryptic type drutil cdtext in the terminal window This will list up all CD Text information contained on the CD in plist format CD Text can store the following information for the complete album and for each track Title Artist Performer Songwriter Composer Arranger Additional message For the complete album you can also specify a genre 3 Windows Media Player is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the U S and other countries 4 iTunes is a trademark of Apple Inc registered in the U S and other countries Special characters in CD Text The CD Text standard as defined by Sony uses the ISO 8859 1 character encoding which includes the most common characters used in western European languages Unfortunately not all languages are covered completely Especially some characters
9. en Activation The activation of the plugin or standalone is done with the HOFA Plugins Manager which is also used for the installation A detailed description of the activation and deactivation process is available here Limitations of the evaluation version During the 14 days of evaluation time you can test the software as you like As a limitation the right stereo channel will always be muted during playback and on the created CDs Quick Start For anyone who does not like to read manuals here is a quick start guide how to play back a DDP image with HOFA DDP Player and write a CD from it Start HOFA DDP Player Load a DDP image Start playback Click Burn CD Select CD writer and burn the CD Step by step To load a DDP image Menu File gt Load DDP image a file dialog will open that allows selecting folders only A DDP image always consists of multiple files that belong together Because of that you have to select the folder that contains all these files here A folder that contains a DDP image can also simply be dropped on the DDP Player to load it While loading the DDP image is automatically validated An invalid image where files are missing or that contains wrong MD5 checksums can not be loaded The track list After opening you will see the track list with all additional information contained in the DDP image Wy HOFA DDP Player Lo jens a y File Settings Help DDP Image C ini Ges
10. ermore loudness range is shown as square brackets inside the loudness meter More about EBU mode and loudness range in section EBU R 128 At the right of the meter you can find the goniometer The goniometer shows three curves Peak orange region Peak Hold white line and Energy white line with gradient Peak Shows the current distribution peak the maximum and energy the averaged distribution The display shows a logarithmic scale of 40 dB The scale adjusts to the level in order to show low levels as well as high levels The volume control is only used for playback The volume of the DDP image or the CD will not be modified here HOF A LN D T WW e a Burn CD To start burning the CD there is the following dialog window j ff i HOFA DDP Player B urn CUO Burn the Project on CD CD writer F CD R PREMIUM E Eject CD write speed 24 Wa Start playback when finished Start In the select box CD writer you can select the device that should be used for burning the CD if there is more than one in your computer The CD write speed is not selectable until an empty CD has been put into that device Click Start to begin the burning process If the Start playback when finished option is activated playback will start after a CD has been written Please note that this will play back the project from your hard disk and not from the CD as the CD will be ejected Save tracks as audio files W
11. ith the save buttons you can save single tracks as audio files Using this button in the bottom line all tracks will be saved To save all tracks you can also select Save all tracks as audio files from the File menu Before saving a dialog will be opened that allows choosing which CD Text information should be used to create the file names Furthermore you can select if the files should include the pregap of the track or the pregap of the following track This can be useful e g for a live album where the applause after a song is the pregap of the next track Settings In the Settings menu you can find all basic settings used by the application Audio output device Select the device that should be used for playback Language English or German Keyboard shortcuts Some playback functions can also be used with the computer keyboard Taste Funktion Enter Start playback O in number pad Stop playback Space Start Stop playback Shift Space Start playback at the position where it has been started the last time Leg Jump to start of track 1 9 Arrow left right Fast forward Rewind Arrow up down Jump to next previous marker Interesting facts Red Book Audio CD The CD A is specified in the so called red book A CD A can contain max 79 minutes and 48 seconds of audio which can be separated into up to 99 tracks The minimum length of a tra
12. n tolerances could be reduced so that longer times became possible Most CD pressing plants allow a playing time of up to 79 48 CDs of 90 or even 99 minutes are beyond the restrictions of the red book standard DDP DDP Disc Description Protocol is a format that describes the content of a CD It is frequently used to transfer the content of an Audio CD e g from the mastering studio to the CD pressing plant By using a DDP image you can avoid the use of CD Rs and the CD writer as a possible source of errors Furthermore you can transfer the final CD via the internet HOFA DDP Player supports DDP Images for CD A in DDP 2 00 format The DDP image is not a single file but a folder All files inside this folder belong to the DDP image and always have to be used in this combination A typical DDP image folder consists of the following files DDPID Contains information about the format of the DDP image DDPMS Contains information on which files belong to this DDP image PQDESCR may have a different name Contains information about the tracks UPC EAN and ISRC IMAGE DAT may have a different name and may be split up into multiple files Contains audio data so this file can be pretty large CDTEXT BIN optional may have a different name Contains all CD Text information Additionally there is often a checksum file Using checksums you can assure that the single files of the image have not been modified e g by a tr
13. ollowing columns Current position The orange arrow on the left will show you the current position for playback Save track as audio file With the save buttons you can save single tracks as audio files Using this button in the bottom line all tracks will be saved Track The track number Index The type of the marker Start Pregap Index 2 3 The numeration of subindices will start at 2 because a CD player will display the normal track start as subindex 1 CD Time The time position of the marker on the CD Duration The duration of a track or a pregap The next columns are only visible if the DDP image contains the appropriate information The entries will only be displayed in the lines of a track start marker for that track and in the last line for the whole CD UPC EAN The UPC or EAN is identical in all rows as it is always valid for the whole CD ISRC The ISRC for this track Track Album_ Title The CD Text entry Title for this track or for the whole CD rack Album Artist The CD Text entry Artist Performer for this track or for the whole CD Track Album Songwriter The CD Text entry Songwriter for this track or for the whole CD Track Album Composer The CD Text entry Composer for this track or for the whole CD Track Album Arranger The CD Text entry Arranger for this track or for the whole CD Track Album Message The CD Text entry Message for this track or for the whole CD
14. ording to EBU R 128 While LU is a relative level LUFS is an absolute level the relationship being O LU 23 LUFS To judge the program dynamic EBU R 128 defines the loudness range LRA The loudness range quantifies the variations of loudness in time e g the proportion between louder parts and quieter parts EBU R 128 claims a program loudness of 23 LUFS 0 LU On the other hand the loudness of most music is about 10 LUFS ranging up to 5 LUFS So one might ask why an EBU meter should be used for music The answer is simple While a loudness reference of 23 LUFS isn t very Suitable for music having a standardized tool for loudness measurement certainly is Due to the open standard loudness is comparable between different measurement tools The loudness range can help judging the loudness across several music titles premastering or on long tracks Especially on premastered music this value might not be very meaningful Contact HOFA GmbH LusshardtstraBe 1 3 D 76689 Karlsdorf E Mail plugins hofa de Telefon 0049 7251 3472 444 www hofa plugins de CH PLUGIN S DDP gt Registered Trademark DCA Inc 1989 2011 DDP is a registered trademark of Doug Carson amp Associates Inc DCA Inc and protected by U S Copyright 2004 Disc Description Protocol and the DDP Logo are trademarks of DCA Inc Copyright DCA Inc 2004 All Rights Reserved iTunes is a trademark of Apple Inc registere
15. penst_DDP_Image Track Index CD time Duration UPC EAN ISRC Track Title Album Title Track Artist Album Artist Album Genre 1 Start 00 00 03 23 4020796447335 DEL211300838 Muss Gespenst ini 2 Pregap 03 23 00 02 2 Start 03 25 03 32 4020796447335 DEL211300839 Seltsam Gespenst ini 3 Pregap 06 57 00 02 3 Start 06 59 03 25 4020796447335 DEL211300840 Fast Gespenst ini 4 Pregap 10 25 00 02 4 Start 10 27 04 18 4020796447335 DEL211300841 Gespenst Gespenst ini 5 Pregap 14 46 00 02 5 Start 14 48 4020796447335 DEL211300842 Zeit Gespenst 6 Pregap 18 42 00 02 6 Start 18 44 4020796447335 DEL211300843 B Plan Gespenst Pregap KASS 7 Start 22 39 4020796447335 DEL211300844 Auseinandergehn Gespenst 8 Pregap 25 48 8 Start 25 50 4020796447335 DEL211300845 Lass Gespenst 9 Pregap 29 27 9 Start 29 29 4020796447335 DEL211300846 Betrug Gespenst 10 Pregap Sates 10 Start GEES 4020796447335 DEL211300847 Teilen Gespenst 11 Pregap 11 Start 36 36 4020796447335 DEL211300848 Genug Gespenst 12 Pregap 40 02 12 Start 40 04 4020796447335 DEL211300849 Zur ck Gespenst 13 Pregap 43 18 13 Start 43 20 4020796447335 DEL211300850 Manchmal Gespenst 47 20 4020796447335 Gespenst SEMAN CERDO UO CD TIME 0 0 k 0 0 The track list is a table containing all CD markers for track start pregap and Subindex Additionally in the bottom line you can see the total number of tracks and the total playing time of the CD The track list contains the f
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