Rip As One Problem

[ProgMan]

Hello everyone!

For the first time, yesterday, I try to rip two tracks of a CD as one, with my recently acquired and registered dBpoweramp CD Ripper version, but all the successive rips involved (two normal rips followed with three secure rips) ends with an error message saying the rips cannot be verified as accurate, using AccurateRip... It seems to be obvious: AccurateRip knows the results of individual tracks, not concatenated ones! The tracks, ripped individually, ends normally, and perfectlly (compared with an EAC rip), after the first rip: the quality or state of the CD (which is new!) has no matter here. So, where is the problem, and what is the solution??
I will end saying that, one time , the rip comes to an end (but, with the same error message) but the resulted file lacks exactly one CD sector (2352 bytes).

Thank you by advance for your help.

ProgMan

[Spoon]

Rip as one cannot be verified against accuraterip.

[ProgMan]

Yes, that's what I said! But why and where an error message, then? The individual files are ripped without any problem, and, once concatenated, it doesn't work anymore!

[simbun]

The individual files are ripped without any problem, and, once concatenated, it doesn't work anymore!

Are you concatenating two tracks from a rip and expecting it to verify afterwards? AccurateRip uses the disc TOC as an index so without the correct signature it won't verify.

What is it you're trying to do as there are probably better ways to do it?

[ProgMan]

What I'm trying to do is the basic rule of what should be this "Rip as One" command: digitally extracting two (or more) concatenated files, and ending without errors, knowing that the extraction of the same individual files are done without errors, and that the CD itself is new and in an absolutely perfect state. Don't ask me the error message, it doesn't exist: done with error... final dot!

[simbun]

What I'm trying to do is the basic rule of what should be this "Rip as One" command: digitally extracting two (or more) concatenated files, and ending without errors

I tried this with a couple of CDs using the latest version of dBpoweramp and I couldn't replicate the problem.

Given that Rip As One isn't verified with AccurateRip, it might be better to rip them as tracks and then combine with ffmpeg:

# concat.txt
file '01.02.flac'
file '01.03.flac'

ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -vn -i concat.txt -i "01.02.flac" -map 0 -map_metadata 1 01.0203.flac

This concatenates 01.02.flac and 01.03.flac and adds metadata from 01.02.flac to the output file 01.0203.flac

I'm not sure of the purpose (maybe for gapless playback), but if you're ripping the rest of the tracks then you can create a CUE sheet to generate the disc TOC so it verifies with CUETools (PerfectTunes doesn't use CUE). If you want to do this let me know and I'll document the steps.