Ripper changes

[Ian Berrington]

Good morning rippers! PLEASE I could really use some help here! I have tried everything I can think of, including using an AI assistant to trouble shoot. I have deactivated my firewall, made sure that dB is allowed in both the antivirus and Firewall settings to connect to the internet. I have installed the newest version of dB. Checked and rechecked the settings. And no matter what I do, accurate rip will not activate. The CD drive is configured with accurate rip. Accurate rip is enabled. The metadata is retrieved for all albums, but each one says not in accurate rip so I have to rip every track on every disc multiple times. I have switched Ultra Secure off, because it means another pass or 2 depending on settings which takes 4 times as long, so it is now set to Accurate rip only with 2 passes. It is double the time firstly, and secondly I don't REALLY know if the rip is ACCURATE which is the main point of having dB. The strange thing is I had one disc with one track that was a problem, so to try to get around it I switched to BURST. When I did that the track displayed 'Not in accurate rip". The burst didn't help, the track is corrupted and the rip result is worth deleting. But out of 15 discs yesterday until 2am, every one was "not in accurate rip". I have ripped 1000's of discs already with my drive and the same laptop and same internet connection, only real difference really is the recent Sequoia update from Mac. And indeed the meta data does work. I had one local disc yesterday that the metadata didn't pick up, so I got the Discogs URL for it and manually pasted it in and it was all there. Tomorrow I have 50 discs arriving, and would like to ensure that Accurate rip is working before I rip them to library. As we all know, ripping takes a lot of time, if you do not have accurate rip to get by with one pass it takes so much longer, who knows if it is really accurate, and if there are problem discs that need re-ripping of frames it is painful. Please see screen shots attached, and PLEASE someone help!

[Ian Berrington]

I have again deleted the dB application, and Perfect Tunes, emptied the trash and reinstalled them. Somehow there must be files left over somewhere because when I opened the application now it was on exactly the same settings as I previously had set. Also, when I go to the Accurate Rip box settings the program / Window says that "Accurate Rip is un-configured", what does that mean? And how do I configure it please?

[Ian Berrington]

Okay, connected the drive, put a disc in and now it says accurate rip is configured. But it's still the same.

[Spoon]

You said you have perfecttunes, does that work with accuraterip?

Which security software do you have?

[Ian Berrington]

Security Software is Intego, and dB has been set within the program for all allowances to connect to the internet, also in Mac OS / Firewall. And yes, Perfect Tunes is working with Accurate Rip. I have had Intego even before dB, and it has always been okay.

[PeterP]

Thanks for all the details, problem is being investigated.

Please look at tags of your Men at Work - Cargo rip, post values of AccurateRipDiscID tag present in your files, so I can compare against my CD.

[Ian Berrington]

Thanks for all the details, problem is being investigated.

Please look at tags of your Men at Work - Cargo rip, post values of AccurateRipDiscID tag present in your files, so I can compare against my CD.

Thank you, happy to do so. Sorry for my ignorance but where do I find it in my files? I have set the ripping program to display results but not to save to the album file. Otherwise, i can re-rip it (overwrite) and post those results. Attached is a screenshot of the Perfect Tunes Tags on that rip. Probably the wrong one that you need. Please explain where I can find the file you need. Thank you.

[Ian Berrington]

This is from Perfect Tunes

[Ian Berrington]

I Just inserted the Cargo disc to re-rip and post the results, and it says "CD in Accurate rip" ?!?!?!?

[Ian Berrington]

I Don't know what has changed. But see attached! Hopefully the problem is resolved!

[PeterP]

Good to hear that it's gone, perhaps it was a momentary AccurateRip communication issue after all.
By AccurateRipDiscID tags I mean:



I'd specifically like to know what it says on your previous rip where it claimed disc-not-present-in-AccurateRip.
If you no longer have this exact rip, post tags from any other rip where it claimed disc-not-present.

[Ian Berrington]

Hi Peter, It took me a while, but I think this is what you wanted, please see attached.

[raleighwood]

Peter, a while back (wish I could find the post) I asked about why Accurate Rip wasn't working in my dbpoweramp install (Mac), without me having made any setting changes. I recall you were in the thread. Checked everything I could think of, reinstalled repeatedly, etc. etc...

It turned out to be an ISP problem, they had a node located in France that was malfunctioning. The whole region (Triangle area in North Carolina USA) had the connection problem only if they tried to access sites in certain parts of Europe. Talk about arcane. Found this out in the AT&T customer help forum. The actual support staff didn't help except to say nothing appeared to be wrong and perhaps they'd have to escalate... Other users with more knowledge than me deduced the issue. After being presented with our findings, we finally got the specifics of the node, location, etc. Eventually it was fixed, and I got AccurateRip back. You never know, this could have occured for you Ian, and after someone somewhere fixed it, and voila!

Not a big AT&T fan... Did the forum drop old posts at some point? I did try to find it.

I wanted to post this here so folks could consider this scenario should nothing be wrong for them except no AccurateRip. Happy New Year Peter, Spoon, and everyone.

[Ian Berrington]

Thanks Peter!