Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

[Jailhouse]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

@galtfrog Your screenshot in reply 6 shows 13 successful track rips and two not completed. Have you tried a second rip, choosing only those hung tracks?

[galtfrog]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

I noticed that when it is hung, the processes are still showing as seen in the attachment. I can open and run a new instance.

[galtfrog]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

Thanks Jailhouse. I have, in the past, been able to be using other applications. Even so, my testing showed that it might hang even when I wasn't being active in other windows.

[Jailhouse]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

For what it's worth:

Occasionally I find CD Ripper stopping for a few seconds, with the drive spinning down, after a track is ripped and before its encoding begins. Once encoding completes, the drive spins up and ripping resumes. It happens when encoding on CPU1 or CPU2; I have not seen encoding using the other two cores on my CPU (an Intel Core i7 from 2009). The delay before encoding has never been any longer than about 5 to 10 seconds or so, though, and ripping has never resumed before the encoding has completed. I rip exclusively to FLAC, and do so with other applications open but not being actively used during the ripping process.

[galtfrog]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

I meant to be more specific. The hangs are in CD Ripper or in a process underneath it. The encoding sits at 0% and the elapsed time counter continues to count. I have attached a screenshot as an example.

[Spoon]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

When it hangs, you mouse stops?

[galtfrog]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

Thanks for the suggestions. I ran some tests today. It is independent of running a music player or local vs ext HDD. My results follow; but I couldn't find a clear result. Please let me know what you think.
1) TEST: No music player open, light CPU usage
CONFIG: Fresh boot, opened one chrome window & CD Ripper, my standard target configuration - rip to ext HDD & a network drive.
RESULT: Hung on first track.

2) TEST: CPU usage - Ripper only open application
CONFIG: Fresh boot, only CD Ripper open, my standard config:
RESULT: hung

3) TEST: Use local HDD
CONFIG: Fresh boot, only CD Ripper open, configured with C: as target drive:
RESULT: Passed

4) TEST: CPU usage - Light
CONFIG: Fresh boot, Directory explorer and Notepad open:
RESULT: hung

5) TEST: CPU usage - Ripper only
CONFIG: Fresh boot, only CD Ripper open, configured with C: as target drive:
RESULT: Passed

6) TEST: CPU usage - Light
CONFIG: Directory explorer and Notepad open:
RESULT: hung

7) TEST: CPU usage - Ripper & Notepad
CONFIG: Fresh boot, Notepad open:
RESULT: Passed

8) TEST: External Drives (my target config)
CONFIG: Notepad open, my standard config:
RESULT: hung

9) TEST: Fresh boot,
CONFIG: Fresh boot, Notepad open, my standard target config:
RESULT: Passed

10) TEST: Open windows
CONFIG: Notepad, 1 dir, 2 chrome windows w 6 & 3 tabs each open, my standard config, not active on keyboard:
RESULT: Passed

11) TEST: Open windows some usage
CONFIG: Notepad, 2 dirs, 2 chrome windows w 6 & 3 tabs each open, my standard config, active in Chrome:
RESULT: Hung on one Track

12) TEST: Open windows, light usage
CONFIG: Notepad, 2 dirs, 2 chrome windows w 6 & 3 tabs each open, my standard config, active in chrome during encoding of first 4 tracks.
RESULT: Rip completed; but error on 1 track (Error overwriting)
My runs, until the last 1 were not overwriting existing files.

[Spoon]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

Try ripping to the local HDD.

[Dat Ei]

Re: Can't Rip a Complete CD Without Hanging

Any other music software like Windows Media Player running in the background accessing the CD drive?


Dat Ei

[galtfrog]

I just rebuilt Intel Core 2 Quad CPU desktop with 8 GB of RAM & Win7Pro. Purchased R16.3 after using 14.4 for years.

As I get back to ripping, I find that tracks hang on encoding frequently. I can't rip an entire CD without hanging. Running multi-core helps; but one or more of the cores hangs during a rip. I've seen all four hang. Same happens when I run single core. I'm ripping to mp3 and m4a simultaneously; but have run mp3 only and still seen it happen.

Any ideas?
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