dBpoweramp 17.5 not recognising certain CDs?

[MrWriter]

I have the latest dBpoweramp, Release 17.5, running on macOS Big Sur version 11.6 (latest) and dBpoweramp does not recognise about 10 percent of the CDs I put into my CD drive. It just says 'looking for CD' and it stays like that for ages with the occasional chugging sound.

I have two CD drives, a genuine Apple USB one and another third party one I bought from Amazon just last week to see if that would help, it didn't.

The CD I'm trying to rip is the soundtrack to Blade Runner, recent issue bought off Amazon Oct 2021).

Any ideas?

[Spoon]

Re: dBpoweramp 17.5 not recognising certain CDs?

Try unchecking the metadata provider GD3, it is currently down.

[MrWriter]

Re: dBpoweramp 17.5 not recognising certain CDs?

Try unchecking the metadata provider GD3, it is currently down.

What does this mean and how do I do it?

[Spoon]

Re: dBpoweramp 17.5 not recognising certain CDs?

Open cd ripper, click the green options button at the top and there you can find the active metadata providers.

[MrWriter]

Re: dBpoweramp 17.5 not recognising certain CDs?

Thanks, Spoon. I just unchecked it, but dBpoweramp still says 'Looking for disc...' under Rip Status when I insert a CD so it did not work.

[MrWriter]

Re: dBpoweramp 17.5 not recognising certain CDs?

Says Looking for disc under Rip Status and the Blue progress bar at bottom says Retrieving intelligent metadata from: MusicBrainz and the blue render line only goes up about 3 per cent, sits there for a few minutes before the drive spits out the CD.

I unchecked MusicBrainz and ran CD again, but next time it did the same thing, only it said on blue render line at bottom Retrieving intelligent metadata from: GD3 so I unchecked that one too.

In the end I unchecked them all, except Manual metadata search, but it still did not work.

After it did not find anything it gave me the option to search discogs myself, which I did, then I chose the correct resulting metadata for the album and inserted the disc again, but it just said Looking for disc under Rip Status again. It just will not have this disc, period.

CD is Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis. Recent issue.