How to ensure PerfectMeta is working?

[dmahmoudi]

I've attempted to rip about 20 CD's now, only 10 of which were picked up by PerfectMeta. Even these 10 had no album art! I tried what I thought were more popular artists, like Weezer and Pearl Jam. So it got me thinking ... how can I ensure it's connecting to the correct meta data servers?

Also, how can enter my own information for rare or limited edition CD's?

[Spoon]

If you click view log it might show the metadata povider.

[dmahmoudi]

It doesn't -- but I know Pearl Jam's Ten CD should show album art.

Again, when a CD isn't found, how can I manually enter in the data?

There's seems to be some issues because it can't find very many CD's, and does not get any album art.

How can I change the naming convention to include album year?
Artist\Year - Album\TrackNumber - Title

Here's the log as you mentioned:

dBpoweramp Batch Ripper
Batch Name:
Batch ID: 50002
Using Profile: (default)
Batch Rip Started: 10/21/2008 23:16:47

Disc 1: [MB] Weezer - Weezer (Green Album) Reject 1: Ripping Error
Error ripping to , 'All Tracks' to 'All Tracks'
Unable to Read CD Disc, is Audio CD?
Disc 1: Reject 2: CD Same as Last Reject 2: CD Same as Last

Disc 2: [MB] Pearl Jam - Ten
Track 1 Result: Complete
Track 2 Result: Complete
Track 3 Result: Complete
Track 4 Result: Complete
Track 5 Result: Complete
Track 6 Result: Complete
Track 7 Result: Complete
Track 8 Result: Complete
Track 9 Result: Complete
Track 10 Result: Complete
Track 11 Result: Complete

[Spoon]

The [MB] means it is coming from MusicBrainz. So something is blocking AMG and GD3, is there any security software on the machine?

[dmahmoudi]

Ah yes - I had forgotten I installed PeerGaurdian as a service on the homeserver.

Easily solved, as I whitelisted the IP's listed on the other forum post:
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?p=79259

166.90.203.0/24
64.92.237.0/24

Or, in human-readable form:

166.90.203.1 thru 166.90.203.255
64.92.237.1 thru 64.92.237.255


Now I'm getting a much higher rate of CD recognition and album art. Thanks Spoon.

Do you know the IP's of the GD3?

[Spoon]

if you ping:

gdwebservice.getdigitaldata.com

that is the IP

[bhoar]

Perhaps these domain names and IPs, as well as those for the other metadata sources and accuraterip could be put into the documentation, perhaps in a troubleshooting section?

-brendan

[Thg6276]

Hi, Just for your info, i'm using DbPoweramp since two months and I have never seen of my life : Music Brainz.

I don't know, if tags of MB are good quality but never seen it

Only AMG, GD3 & Freebd!

[Spoon]

Although this thread is for RipNAS and your post indicates standard dBpoweramp CD Ripper:

Select the drop menu next to Meta button and choose retrieve from >> MusicBrainz to see if it works. MB will not work through a proxy.

[LtData]

There, in the FAQ, thanks Spoon! http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?p=83344*blooper*post83344