Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

[dealmein]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Hi,
I recently picked up an MF digital Scribe PC. Is there a way to use the batch ripper with it? I cannot PM Bhoar because his mailbox is full. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Have you got the MF digital Scribe PC working with batch ripper? I am considering picking one up too. What MF model do you have?

Thanks.

[sandman]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Thanks! Sorry I didn't see that.

[Spoon]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

He gives this message as his signature:

email: brendan|hoar+gmail|com ... replace both '|' with '.' and also '+' with '@'.

[sandman]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Hi,
I recently picked up an MF digital Scribe PC. Is there a way to use the batch ripper with it? I cannot PM Bhoar because his mailbox is full. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[HeyJoe222]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

We bought a Rimage 3 not realizing it is not compatible with our prevoius Rimage 3 autoloader. Is there a way you can get this to work? Can someone suggest and after market autoloader that will make it work?

[mrmusicman]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Hi Spoon / All,

I've skimmed through the thread but not sure I ended up with clear answer

Can anyone recommend a sub $600 auto-loader that will work well with batch ripper. It doesn't have to be fancy or super fast or hold hundreds of CD's and I don't need any printing functionality. Even a newer version of the Sony XL1Bx disc changer (I can't seem to locate one in Australia)

I have about 500 Cd's to rip. While batch ripper is working well doing this manually, it's pretty time consuming

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit.

Thanks in advance!!

[Spoon]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Sorry there is not.

[patman0815]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Hello Spoon,

i bought the dBpoweramp Reference R14 and i am really impressed!
Now i call a Xystec 1112 my own (i think its simmilar to Aleratec / Dexpreso 1000 ...). Is there a driver for the batch ripper provided by illustrate? ... or can i buy it from you?

thx
Patrick

[Spoon]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

I do not think it would relate to anything, for example you would find the deadlock is in a DeviceIO command which is the actual SCSI command.

One thing you can try is to change CD Ripper >> Options >> communication to Windows Built-in.

[mjbraun]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

It suggests your firewire connection is not as good as it should be, but saying that firewire has such bad support on Windows.

Well, I've swapped out most everything (except the changer itself); cables, OS's, hardware, Firewire cards, drivers, configurations, etc, yet I'm still having ripping troubles. It seems that the actual rip software is hanging (and by hang, I mean hours-long rips that make no progress). So I decided to get under the hood, and I've started poking around with Microsoft's Application Verifier to identify where a possible deadlock condition is manifesting (I'm speculating it's within CDGrab.exe).

Thanks!
Would it be possible to get the symbols file for BatchRipper, CoreConverter, and CDGrab.exe so that I can report back on my findings? I'm getting a number of unhandled exception errors from the start and I'd like to help you improve the program if at all possible

[Spoon]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

It suggests your firewire connection is not as good as it should be, but saying that firewire has such bad support on Windows.

[mjbraun]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Crud. I guess I spoke too soon, as rips are not completing. Strangely, I was able to run one full batch (200) of discs with only seven rejects using both drives, yet when I try a second batch, neither drive will rip anymore. The program won't cleanly exit, and when I kill it with Process Explorer, the system hangs.

What I've noticed, however, using Process Monitor is a massive amount of messages that read:

Process Name: CDGrab.exe
Operation: DeviceIoControl
Result: FAST IO DISALLOWED or SUCCESS (they alternate)
Detail: Control: IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT

We're talking hundreds of thousands of these events. I changed from SPT to the limited account communications, but the problem persists. I can't find any setting for PIO vs. DMA mode for the FireWire controller (unlike for the IDE bus), so that doesn't seem to be the issue.

Thoughts?

[mjbraun]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Huzzah! I finally got it working by downgrading from Server 2008 to XP. I think part of the problem is that with 2008, Windows didn't think it needed to use the drivers from PowerFile, though with XP it does. If I had forced it to use the PowerFile drivers anyway, it might have worked (just for anyone else out there with the same obscure problem).

Thanks for all the assistance!

[mjbraun]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

You would have to try on a different system.

Alas, I'm at my wits' end: I rebuilt my host from scratch today, as I don't have access to another functioning Windows machine that I can test the system on, and yet the problem with the unending rips continues, both in BatchRipper and just CD Grab talking to a single drive. The external FireWire hard drive performs just fine, so that partially rules out the FireWire bus as being the root cause.

One thing that gives me pause is that the software doesn't want to quit, even when I abort the rip, and killing the process tree via Process Explorer seems to leave the system in an unstable state (CD Grab refuses to start up afterward, necessitating a reboot). It's as if some lock is being acquired but not released or checked and freed on startup.

Also, I tried test encoding using burst (versus secure) and received the same error.

Finally, and most strangely, I installed iTunes on the system and was able to successfully rip a CD. While iTunes was only able to rip at a paltry ~2.5x speed, it was able to make progress, leading me to believe that there is something afoot in the CD Grab software rather than in the system configuration.

Are there some debugging/profiling strategies I should try to help isolate the problem?

[Spoon]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

You would have to try on a different system.