ACD Gold Edition Jumbo Pack-CD Player + MP3 Educator + CD-ROM/DVD Tester - for Windows 95/98 only

The ACD Gold Edition Advanced CD Player makes use of CDDA technique for playing audio CD's. The ACD Gold Edition Player requires a CD-ROM drive which is capable of CDDA that can perform DAE at least at 2X speed. In addition, when you are connected to the Internet (for instance to cddb.com), the Player can look up and retrieve the disc title, artist name and the track names for the CD you are playing. A Graphic Equalizer with frequencies band assignments especially chosen to enhance your listening pleasure will give you the optimum professional sound quality.

The CD-ROM Performance Tester - CDDA Benchmark Program measures your CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and system performances while playing audio CD's through measuring Digital Audio Extraction (DAE). DAE is the method used to gather access to audio data in an audio disc. The faster and more problem-free your CD/DVD can read digital audio, the more reliable the program which makes use of DAE, will be. The program measures the speed of the DAE and the CPU usage during this operation. Many low end to middle performance computers are affected by DAE that it is almost impossible to perform other tasks on the computer during DAE operations. Also if the system's CPU is slow, the quality of the digital audio can be adversely affected by "drop outs".

The Mp3 EducatorT is a tool to collect, organize and normalize your many Mp3 files. These files might originally have been recorded at different volume levels.The Mp3 EducatorT helps you to normalize the Mp3 files. This means that the volume of the MP3 files will be brought to the same peak level so there is no need to constantly change the soundcard mixer settings or player's volume control when you want to listen to different MP3 files. The program can also helps you rename the files once they are re-encoded. Many people encode their Mp3 files from CD, Tapes, LP or other sources, using file names such as "Track01.mp3", "Track02.mp3", etc. If you have such files, and they have an ID3 tag that stores the album name, track title,performer etc., Mp3 EducatorT can use the ID3 tag information and rename the file the way you want it. It is an excellent utility to keep your Mp3 files in order and to play them without unnecessary interruptions!