Impossible to rip ANY cds with dbpoweramp

[ianstuart]

My apologies if this is a newbie error on my part but after searching the forum and support sites I was unable to find any answer to my problem.

When I try to rip ANY of my CDs Dbpoweramp tells me that for each track:


Error ripping to mp3 (Lame), 'Track 1' to 'F:\Emmylou Harris\Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball - 01 - Where Will I Be.mp3'
Error unable to open File 'F:\Emmylou Harris\Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball - 01 - Where Will I Be.mp3' for writing. [clEncoder::BeginConversion]


This probably a newbie mistake but I can rip any of these cds with Itunes so it is not a question of copy protection, besides which some of these cds are over 10 years old.

I am running Windows XP with all updates current on an HP Media Center computer.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

[Spoon]

Re: Impossible to rip ANY cds with dbpoweramp

What is drive F? that is where it is trying to write to.

[ianstuart]

Re: Impossible to rip ANY cds with dbpoweramp

F drive is the cd drive from which dbpoweramp is ripping

[garym]

Re: Impossible to rip ANY cds with dbpoweramp

F drive is the cd drive from which dbpoweramp is ripping

hmmm, sorry but that doesn't make sense. Your message indicates it is trying to WRITE to the F: drive during ripping. Maybe you haven't set your rip settings destination drive correctly (that is you are trying to save your ripped files to the F: drive, which it can't because your F: drive is your CD/DVD drive from which it is reading). Make sure you have your DESTINATION drive set to what it should be (the drive where the tracks will be stored).

[Wayne]

Re: Impossible to rip ANY cds with dbpoweramp

Can you also confirm that you are using the CD Ripper to rip the tracks?