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  • teksaport

    • Nov 2006
    • 7

    Audio CD Input program malfunction...

    Hello, I have purchased and installed the latest dbpoweramp and I'm using it to rip some CD's (The Old Testament). All day yesterday it was working fine. I have 49 CD's to rip, and I'm on 45. On this 45th CD when I load the new CD into the drive, the Audio CD Input program shows me either one of two things. It either shows the message "Insert Audio CD..", after I've already inserted it, or it shows only one (1) track with a weird track name (Notti Senza Cuore_ragazzo Dell'europa_contaminata_amandoti_profumo_i Maschi_aria_una Luce_california_latin Lover_meravigliosa Creatura_amore Cannibale_oh Marinaio). At first look, someone might want to blame freedb, but keep reading.

    If I goto "My Computer" (Windows 2000 Server), and "Explore" this CD/DVD drive, it shows me all of the individual files/tracks (1-14). Also, if I open my winamp and try to play any of the 14 tracks, they all play fine. Now on some of the previous CD's I've ripped, the display area in the "Audio CD Input" program shows the plain name of "Track 1 thru Track 14" for a second or two and then updates the screen with the freedb results which was the correct process and outcome.

    This time, the one track that shows up doesn't seem to contact freedb before showing the false track name, it comes up with the bad track name way to quickly, which would indicate it's being stored somewhere locally. However I don't have a local db setup. I've looked for the local db file and it isn't on my computer, and I have rebooted my machine without any change in this problem. And I have also used "Etherreal" to sniff for any traffic going to freedb and there is "NONE". It doesn't even try to ask freedb, it just throws out that single track and back track name. Also remember that the first 44 worked fine, and I didn't all of a sudden change my network, or add proxy's or add firewalls, etc. This is all on the same machine, same network, same firewalls, etc.

    And obviously, 1 track is not enough tracks, as there should be 14 found. So it's not reading my CD/DVD drive properly. It has been, and my OS is still reading the drive correctly and playing it correctly from winamp, so this all points to the Audio CD Input program as the problem. So I re-installed the whole dbpoweramp program again and it still does not work. It keep showing me this one track that looks like a spanish or greek opera name.

    And another few things to consider. If/when I click on the "freedb" icon, it does go to freedb and retrieves a list of CD titles. There are 13, and all of the titles are wrong. So it is my impression that the program is not reading the CD correctly and/or whatever tells freedb what CD I have, is not working. I believe this to be true because I took another CD that I previously ripped and it was able to retrieve the track names properly (disk 43), and place it into the CD/DVD drive, and the "Audio CD Input" program shows me the exact same bad/wrong (1 only) title as disk 44 is showing me.

    Anyone seen this, or have any ideas on how to fix/resolve this?

    Thanks
    John
  • teksaport

    • Nov 2006
    • 7

    #2
    Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

    Also, I have just now uninstalled dbpoweramp, and deleted the directory out of the program files folder. Rebooted, and reinstalled. Tried the "Audio CD Input" program again and it is doing the same thing with the same invalid track name.

    And, I began going backwards, taking each of the previously correctly ripped CD's and putting them into the CD/DVD drive and the "Audio CD Input" program showed this same "wrong/invalid" track name and only 1 single track for each and every CD I put in.

    Since I have uninstalled and rebooted, there must be a registry entry that is screwed up or a file that was not deleted with the uninstall.

    And, if I click on Options/AccurateRip Results, the DISC ID for every disk is:
    Disk 43: Disc ID: 00000000-fffffe01
    Disk 44: Disc ID: 00000000-fffffe01

    I don't know what the "AccurateRip" is, but wouldn't/doesn't the "Disk ID" show that the disk is being read wrong when previously it was read correctly?

    Thanks for any help,
    John
    Last edited by teksaport; November 06, 2006, 10:23 PM.

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    • teksaport

      • Nov 2006
      • 7

      #3
      Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

      I hate replying to myself here, but so far no one else is, so there must be low traffic here.

      Anyway, this program:


      Calculates the disc id on each of my CD's and returns a unique disc id. So I think I've proven it's not a problem on my machine. There is something up with the "Audio CD Input" program.

      Perhaps tomorrow someone will help me.

      Thanks
      John

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      • LtData
        dBpoweramp Guru

        • May 2004
        • 8288

        #4
        Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

        CD meta-data is stored in your windows directory (default of C:\windows) in the file CDPlayer.ini.

        Also, getting wrong titles with FreeDB is a known problem. The problem is that the length of the discID is not long enough to prevent two CDs getting the same ID.

        You may want to try toggling the "Table of Contents" detection in Audio CD Input. This option is found beside the down arrow of Options under "Standard CD Player Emulation".

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        • teksaport

          • Nov 2006
          • 7

          #5
          Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

          Originally posted by LtData
          CD meta-data is stored in your windows directory (default of C:\windows) in the file CDPlayer.ini.

          Also, getting wrong titles with FreeDB is a known problem. The problem is that the length of the discID is not long enough to prevent two CDs getting the same ID.

          You may want to try toggling the "Table of Contents" detection in Audio CD Input. This option is found beside the down arrow of Options under "Standard CD Player Emulation".
          I found the CDPlayer.ini in my C:\WINNT directory. The last section looks like this:
          [0]
          artist=Gianna Nannini
          title=Perle
          genre=Rock
          comment=
          year=2004
          EntryType=1
          numtracks=1
          numplay=1
          0=Notti Senza Cuore_ragazzo Dell'europa_contaminata_amandoti_profumo_i Maschi_aria_una Luce_california_latin Lover_meravigliosa Creatura_amore Cannibale_oh Marinaio

          Which is the cached version of that weird track name. However the interesting part is the [0]. I believe that shows that the disc id is not getting calculated.

          As for toggleing off the "Table of Contents", that removed the single track and gave me back my 14 tracks, but of course without the freedb because of the [0] disc id. Do you have any suggestions on what could be causing a [0] disc id?

          Thanks for your time,
          John

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          • LtData
            dBpoweramp Guru

            • May 2004
            • 8288

            #6
            Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

            You might want to try switching your CD communication setting (Options --> Advanced button beside CD drive selection) to Windows Internal (Limited).

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            • Spoon
              Administrator
              • Apr 2002
              • 44574

              #7
              Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

              Try R12 alpha (the beta section of this forum) it uses AMG for meta data, much better.
              Spoon
              www.dbpoweramp.com

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              • teksaport

                • Nov 2006
                • 7

                #8
                Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

                Originally posted by LtData
                You might want to try switching your CD communication setting (Options --> Advanced button beside CD drive selection) to Windows Internal (Limited).
                Thanks for your help. I have switch to "Windows Internal" and it appears to be creating the disc id correctly now.

                Thanks again,
                John

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                • teksaport

                  • Nov 2006
                  • 7

                  #9
                  Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

                  Originally posted by Spoon
                  Try R12 alpha (the beta section of this forum) it uses AMG for meta data, much better.
                  Spoon, the forum says it's Alpha, but the title says Beta. My question is, whichever it is, can I have it both versions installed? Or does this beta overwrite the current install?

                  Thanks
                  John

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                  • LtData
                    dBpoweramp Guru

                    • May 2004
                    • 8288

                    #10
                    Re: Audio CD Input program malfunction...

                    It is the beta section of the forum, but an alpha version. And the alpha of dMC r12 overwrites dMC r11.

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