dBpoweramp Batch Ripper: Discussions

[bhoar]

Re: Batch Ripper and external loader commands

The drive handle might be left open, nothing should be accessing the drive from our end on a load.exe

Ok. Thanks, that helps.

I'm working out some issues with Jason regarding IDE drive access (trays on connected-via-IDE PX-708 drives were only opening halfway, etc. with the current ULCLI drivers, when there wasn't a problem over USB/Firewire which I've done 90% of my testing with).

For now, I've added a switch to bypass my own SPTI calls and use some more everyday calls instead...that seems to have worked for him, but you give up a bit of throughput if you uses that flag (better than a stopped process though!).

In the future, I might try to either grab an exclusive (non-shared) write handle to the device for SPTI use before using SPTI calls...or fall through to non-SPTI calls if the handle-request fails (which I suspect it will if you have a handle open).

EDIT: there's also a chance that my SPTI calls are in some way malformed from the perspective of a raw ATAPI device (one that isn't bridged via another protocol...) or at least a raw ATAPI PX-708 device.

I don't have any PX-708s to test here, but the workaround I gave to Jason lowers the issue priority for me.

Thanks again.

-brendan

[EliC]

Re: dBpoweramp Batch Ripper: Discussions

I have 2 things I would really like to see soon in the batch ripper:

1) Automatically save the highest resolution album art from BOTH AMG and GD3. You are paying for them, and if one is wrong or poor quality the other will be their without paying for another lookup

2) PerfectMeta Quality Meter

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?p=79113#post79113

-use spell checker, grammer, artist lists, previous manual edits in PMdb, agreement between sources, etc to come up with some sort of measurement of the meta data quality. Prompt users to manually examine the metadata if the quality measurement is below a certain value (and of course upload any manual edits to the PMdb)

[Donovan]

Re: dBpoweramp Batch Ripper: Discussions

Is it possible to do something other than audio ripping with the batch ripper? I'd like to use it with an MF Digital Baxter to rip DVDs to .iso, and I was hoping there was a way I could configure it to run a command-line disc imaging program that works with DVDs instead of attempting to rip CD audio tracks. I don't mind writing some external scripts on my own.

Also, the Baxter I ordered will probably not come with any software (repackaged under another name with unknown control software)...does the batch ripper need any drivers that come with the unit or does it just need its own?

Thank you in advance.

[bhoar]

Re: dBpoweramp Batch Ripper: Discussions

Is it possible to do something other than audio ripping with the batch ripper? I'd like to use it with an MF Digital Baxter to rip DVDs to .iso, and I was hoping there was a way I could configure it to run a command-line disc imaging program that works with DVDs instead of attempting to rip CD audio tracks. I don't mind writing some external scripts on my own.

Also, the Baxter I ordered will probably not come with any software (repackaged under another name with unknown control software)...does the batch ripper need any drivers that come with the unit or does it just need its own?

No, at the moment dbpoweramp only handles audio CDs. I suspect that for the foreseeable future, Illustrate will stay away from DVD ripping (for legal/liability reasons) though only Spoon can say for sure.

The Baxter-type (baxter, minicubis, dupliq, etc.) units all use the same windows driver (the driver proper is a renamed copy of microsoft's bulkusb.sys), though often the .inf file packaged with the units differ because of branding and/or the PID/VID combination that the USB device reports itself as. In other words, other than the paint and print on the outside of the units, they only differ in the device (product/vendor) ID that they report. In the past, I've modified the inf file to masquerade a dupliq as a baxter, etc.

Spoon has stated in that past that his baxter "drivers" (in the batch ripper, not windows sense: load.exe, unload.exe, reject.exe, pre-batch.exe, post-batch.exe) should work for all varieties of these devices regardless of whether the device reports itself as a baxter or something else.

-brendan

[Donovan]

Re: dBpoweramp Batch Ripper: Discussions

Spoon has stated in that past that his baxter "drivers" (in the batch ripper, not windows sense: load.exe, unload.exe, reject.exe, pre-batch.exe, post-batch.exe) should work for all varieties of these devices regardless of whether the device reports itself as a baxter or something else.

So then it should be possible for me to call those executables directly from my own batch file and use another program to image the DVDs? Even just having that would be enough to make it worth buying dBpoweramp.

[bhoar]

Re: dBpoweramp Batch Ripper: Discussions

So then it should be possible for me to call those executables directly from my own batch file and use another program to image the DVDs? Even just having that would be enough to make it worth buying dBpoweramp.

See "Loader CLI Switches" in this thread for more info: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=13597

Again, I doubt you're going to get any support doing something like that, and probably risking a moderator stop the discussion if it goes into any further specifics.

-brendan

[MrBuBBLs]

Re: dBpoweramp Batch Ripper: Discussions

Okay, hi everyone. My company just got it's hands on a licence of dbpoweramp and I'm actually testing the batch ripper.

There are a few "glitches" in it.

First, there is no scrollbars on the right side of the CD-ROM list when you rip.
So I have a machine here with 9 Plextors with the batch ripper running and I can't see all of the 9 drives at the same time. Could there be scroll bars in future batch ripper release ?
(Reducing batch ripper's windows size doesn't either solve that problem... There aren't no scrollbars appearing)

Sorry for my bad english guys, I'm a frenchy.

[sredmyer]

Album art

I am sure I am just not doing it correctly but I can not get the Batch Ripper to save the Album Art. I have it set so that it is retrieved and saved when using CD Ripper. Is there some other place it must be set for the Batch Ripper to use it?

Thanks,
Steve

[LtData]

Re: Album art

Do you have an active PerfectMeta (r13) or AMG (r12) subscription?

[sredmyer]

Re: Album art

Do you have an active PerfectMeta (r13) or AMG (r12) subscription?

Yes I have r13 not sure if the PerfectMeta feature is turned on or not...How do I tell?

No I have not yet subscribed to AMG (plan to in the future but I haven't yet)..will need instructions on how to go about signing up for that service in the near future

[LtData]

Re: Album art

Check dBpoweramp Configuration (see "Need to find your version?" below), it will tell you the status. You should have at least a 30-day trial if you activated it and it has not yet expired.

[sredmyer]

Re: Album art

Check dBpoweramp Configuration (see "Need to find your version?" below), it will tell you the status. You should have at least a 30-day trial if you activated it and it has not yet expired.

Yes it looks like the AMG thing is on. However I do not believe this is the problem because as I stated originaly when I use CD Ripper the album art is downloaded and saved to the appropriate folder. It is only when using Batch Ripper that it is not.

[Spoon]

Re: Album art

Switch on the Manual Input & Review (meta button) to check that metadata is retrieved from AMG

[sredmyer]

Re: Album art

Switch on the Manual Input & Review (meta button) to check that metadata is retrieved from AMG

Uh...wont that then require me to manually review each CD/Track's meta data meaning: rip one CD, stop to verify the meta data, then move onto the next CD? If the answer is yes then what would the point of batch ripping be?

Again I think you guys are overlooking an importat point here...it works fine when using the "CD Ripper" app (the application that provides single disc at a time ripping) it does not work when using th "Batch Ripper" application. This tells me that the "Batch Ripper" is probably using a different configuration value (at least for this parameter) than is th "CD Ripper". Problem is I can not find anywhere to set any of the values used by the "Batch Ripper"...it appears (at least for other parameters) that the "Batch Ripper application use the settings defined in the "CD Ripper" application.

[sredmyer]

Re: dBpoweramp Batch Ripper: Discussions

Is there a tutorial somewhere that describes setting up the software for ripping and batch ripping. Something that explains what parameters affect what applications and where one must go to see/set those parameters?