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It has never been easier to transfer music tracks stored on optical media either to Windows Media Player or to Apple’s iTunes program: Primera Technology is now offering the necessary “PTRip” software, which is compatible with devices from the Disc Publisher family. Users of one of these burning and printing robots can obtain the software free of charge at http://www.primeraeurope.de/ptrip.
“Following the successful establishment of Qflix, PTRip is the next step in expanding our offering for the mass market,” comments Primera managing director Andreas Hoffmann, adding: “We expect around eighty to ninety percent of our customers to use iTunes.” Only three steps are needed to use the entirely “private music studio”: first, the optical media are inserted into the respective Disc Publisher; the user then opens the new software and uses a mouse click to decide whether the tracks should be transferred to Windows Media Player or iTunes.
Everything else runs fully automatically. After the transfer, the tracks are available in MP3 format for playback or copying to a portable player. “Users of an iPod or iPhone in particular will appreciate the simple way to transfer a large quantity of music tracks to their mobile device virtually without an intermediate manual step,” predicts Andreas Hoffmann. Depending on the type of Disc Publisher, music tracks from twenty to one hundred optical media can be transferred to the program being used in a single operation. Alongside consumers, Primera Technology’s complete solution is aimed primarily at music studios and bands that have long been waiting for a way to handle their rehearsal or live recordings quickly, easily and flexibly.
