Discs with silent tracks wont load

[Ian Berrington]

Thanks for testing.
What if you stay clear of 'manual meta review' page in latest dBpoweramp? If you configured dBpoweramp to automatically show it (ripper menu button / Active Providers / After Metadata Display Review Metadata), uncheck the option.
A plausible explanation is that recent changes in that area are going off the rails for you.

Hello Peter, I have tried this and it is still the same, disc wont load and I have to force quit to exit dB.

[PeterP]

Attempted fix-

https://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/DMC-2025-07-18.dmg

[Ian Berrington]

Attempted fix-
https://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/DMC-2025-07-18.dmg

Hi Peter, Thank you for trying, unfortunately it is the same and the program stays on "looking for disc". I have to force quite to exit.

[Ian Berrington]

Hi Peter, my first response using quote was again "unapproved" . Thank you for trying but the program stays stuck on "looking for disc" and I have to use force quit to exit. Cheers!

[PeterP]

Thanks.

Regarding unapproved posts, forum script is paranoid about non-staff members posting links, defaults to hiding the post, which stops most of the spam.

.. okay, so it's not last 'review metadata' change.
How's this build- https://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/2025...2025-07-07.dmg ?
I'm having trouble understanding how I broke this, seemingly nothing relevant changed lately

[Ian Berrington]

Hi Peter,

Okay, so perhaps this might give you some insight into what is going wrong, at least on my side. I tried this latest build on my Mac silicone M3 running Sequoia 15.5, and got the same result, stuck looking for disc. Out of curiosity I loaded it onto an old Mac that I have which is an Intel chip and running on Monterey 12.7.6. On the old Mac running Monterey the disc loaded right away. So the issue would seem to be something to do with the M3 or Sequoia. That's all that I can think of at this time. I have always run dB on the Mac M3 and never run into this issue before. I hope that helps!

Regards,

Ian

[PeterP]

Thanks for the details.

This bug is getting more and more mysterious. I wouldn't blame M3 or Sequoia right away - we might have a "random" bug in our code, that results in different behavior on specific configuration and goes away with any change of parameters, such as running Intel code instead of ARM.

Please get dBpoweramp to lock up again, open Activity Monitor, double click stuck dBpoweramp process, click "sample" button, post text that it produces.