CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

[Richard Allen]

It was very fast until yesterday when it slowed right down. It now takes a few minutes to bring up a track listing which is slowing down burning discs. Windows Media player runs at the same time (is that normal) and WM is also crashing occasionally . Other times the track listing appears in WM before dbpoweramp. Something is delaying the loading of the disc

[Spoon]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

You have tried a reboot?

I would not run WMP at the same time as ripping.

[Richard Allen]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

You have tried a reboot?

I would not run WMP at the same time as ripping.

Yes tried that. WMP automatically opens when I open dbpoweramp. Not sure how to stop this. In any event it was OK previously with WMP open. This problem has only appeared since that huge Windows Update the other day. Essentially the problem is that you put a disc in and it just says <reading disc> and either eventually does read the disc or just crashes.

[Spoon]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

When you insert an audio cd it should appear instantly, if it does not and you look in Windows File Explorer and it shows no audio cd for the cd drive (if you click on it), then something fundamentally is wrong on the system. If you have security software, uninstall it.

[Richard Allen]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

In task manager whilst it is hanging it reads "not responding"

[Richard Allen]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

Its just an ordinary PC with Norton. Nothing unusual... You want me to uninstall all of Norton ? Seems a bit drastic. Surely only certain bits of Norton might interfere with it

[Richard Allen]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

OK it appears in Windows explorer ..not immediately..its just damn slow . Something is causing it to hesitate

[Richard Allen]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

OK...Found it I think. Some idiot at Microsoft decided to add a feature that asks what I want the CD drive to do every time I put a CD in it...so I have to click a setting telling it what to do .. Because I hadn't told it but had told dbpoweramp what I wanted to do the CD drive was having an existential crisis..... " How to you turn off a PC...go to start"

[Richard Allen]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

QUESTION : Where you set the various data bases to interrogate re track listings from presumably the more you have chosen the slower it is ? I'm guessing its faster if I just choose one ?

[Richard Allen]

Re: CD Ripper taking ages to read disc and load track listing and cover art

OK the CD Text and ISRC data options were both checked. I unchecked them and now its instant.