dBpoweramp Music Converter OS X Discussions

[docmart]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter OS X Discussions

I'm sure I posted this yesterday, but it doesn't seem to be here.

I earlier reported a problem with a greyed out 'Review Metadata' button on the full version (not beta) of the Mac version. At the time I thought it was just one random disc giving strange results, and as requested I posted my configuration to Mr.Spoon.

However, it is now apparent that the problem is much bigger than I thought. I purchased Gary Moore's 'Live At Montreux' and loaded it up into the CD Ripper. I commenced as usual by changing the Album Artist name to 'Moore, Gary' (I'm a bit OCD that way), and changed the Artist tag to 'Moore, Gary'. Originally it was presented as <Various Artists>, because Albert Collins features on several of the tracks. As is my usual practice, I then clicked on 'Review Metadata', so that I could add '(feat. Albert Collins) to the tracks on which he plays, and clicked on Show Artist (I think that's what it's called). I then tried to edit the appropriate Title Fields, but all that happened was that the appropriate line went blue, but I couldn't actually change what was in that field.

Did a bit of head scratching, and went back to the main CD Ripper window. Lo and behold, the Review Metadata button was now greyed out! I tried to edit the title fields on that screen, but again the program wouldn't let me do it.

So, went ahead with the rip, and did post-editing of the metadata tags (using dBpoweramp) afterwards. Very tedious.

Got another couple of random old compilation CDs (previously ripped using the Windows version), and tried them. On first loading, on the main screen, I could click on each track title and edit it, but when I tried the same thing after clicking on Review Metadata, what happened with the Gary Moore CD was repeated.

Restarted my Mac, and put the previously tried CDs into CD Ripper. Greyed out 'Review Metadata' button present from loading - so whatever happened earlier seems to have fixed itself in the Mac CD Ripper 'memory'.

Also : Why can't I submit my rip data to the online databases using the Mac version? (as you can in the Windows version)

[docmart]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter OS X Discussions

Thanks for your feedback.
I would like to get a snapshot of your dBpoweramp configuration for analysis.
Please go to dBpoweramp configuration ( "configure" button in the launcher window ), Music Converter tab, "Save configuration snapshot" button at the bottom; email the resulting file to peter@dbpoweramp.com.
Thanks.

Well, I thought my problem with the Mac version was with only one CD, but today, I set about ripping Gary Moore, Live At Montreux. I wanted to edit the metadata to "Moore, Gary" for Artist and Artist/Album. Did that on the first page of CD ripper. Then decided I wanted to edit the titles of those tracks with Albert Collins, by adding (feat. Albert Collins) to the title. (I usually do this for albums where some of the tracks have guest artists on them). Went into Review Metadata, but it wouldn't let me edit the track names (I did click on the 'Show Track Artists' button). Then if I click on the track name (or anything else in that view, the line goes blue, but I can't actually edit the contents. If I come out of that view, quit CD ripper and reload, then the Review Metadata button for that disc is greyed out.

I finished up ripping my Gary Moore CD using the Mac versionand then editing the metadata after ripping (using Finder/R Click/ Services/dbPoweramp). Tedious, and really must be fixed.

[NaimGaim]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter OS X Discussions

In the AAC settings: Why can't I choose VBR as an option?
In iTunes I always used VBR for my rips...

[eejit]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter OS X Discussions

So I went ahead and purchased the reference version at the discounted price this evening and, lo and behold, everything works! Accuraterip configuration is fine, the "view metadata" button is no longer greyed out, and album art is being fetched like it should (albeit with quite a few irrelevant results, but that's no real problem). So my advice to anyone experiencing problems similar to those I have previously described, is to begin your troubleshooting by checking if your AV (if you have one installed) is the culprit. Conclusion in my case: Two thumbs up for dBpoweramp and a foot up the arse for Avast.

[eejit]

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My Avast for Windows 8.1, includes the browser add-on Avast! Online Security. I have disabled this add-on in both the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Maybe Avast for OS X has a similar add-on, that you can disable in your OS X browser, rather than completely removing Avast.

Good shout, thanks for the tip. I already uninstalled Avast because, like I mentioned, I was becoming fed up with it randomly breaking functionality in different apps. My general impression is that Avast doesn't work as well with OSX as with Windows, and running a complete AV suite is arguably less necessary on the former platform. I'm not completely sure (and having uninstalled the whole thing I have no way of finding out), but I think the browser extension was already disabled, and I only got album art search to work by disabling the whole web shield. Also, exclusions only seemed to work on a domain-by-domain basis, so I couldn't find an easy way to make it allow dBpoweramp and other apps to just do their thing without interference. Other users experiencing similar problems and wishing to keep Avast on their systems should definitely start by checking if disabling the browser extension helps, though.

[mville]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter OS X Discussions

I have resolved the album art problem, it seems that Avast wasn't allowing dBpoweramp to search the web for images.

My Avast for Windows 8.1, includes the browser add-on Avast! Online Security. I have disabled this add-on in both the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Maybe Avast for OS X has a similar add-on, that you can disable in your OS X browser, rather than completely removing Avast.

[eejit]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter OS X Discussions

Update:

I have resolved the album art problem, it seems that Avast wasn't allowing dBpoweramp to search the web for images. Disabling the shields made album art search work as intended. I suspect the unability to contact Accuraterip servers may have been a similar issue. It's not the first time that Avast has impaired the functionality of other software, so I think I'll just get rid of it. The greyed out "review metadata" button bug remains, but I can live with that until a fix is in place. dBpoweramp for Mac now works well enough that I'm happy to shell out for a new license. One question: Will I be able to go back to using the 1.2 beta instead of 1.1 once I've purchased the license?

[eejit]

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Hi guys, long time lurcher, first time poster. I'm a big fan of dbPoweramp, having used the Windows version for a couple of years before replacing my PC with a Macbook Pro about a year ago. As I haven't been able to find another piece of secure ripping software that I like as much as this one, I was pretty excited when I found out about the OSX version last month. After trying it out, however, I'm not sure I want to fork up the money for a new license as it presently stands.

When I first downloaded the 1.1 trial, I had the problem of being unable to configure Accuraterip, but this was resolved by swapping the stable release for the 1.2 beta, which has been working pretty well for the past few weeks, apart from never finding more than two album art alternatives. When trying to rip a cd tonight, however, I got error messages for all tracks, which I assume has to do with the three week trial period having expired. I therefore decided to go back to version 1.1 to see if the Accuraterip problem persisted. I'm happy to say that it doesn't, but I noticed another couple of annoyances in its place. No album art is found for any cd and, as someone else pointed out, I'm unable to open the metadata sheet because the "review metadata" button is greyed out.

I suppose these and similar bugs could well be rooted out in future updates, but at present they are annoying enough that I'm considering firing up my old (and now horrendously slow) Windows PC instead of making OSX the permanent home for all my ripping needs. Paying for a new license would be a no-brainer if the OSX version worked as well as the Windows one, but in its current state it doesn't, at least not for me. Am I missing a fix for the aforementioned niggles?

Edit: 13' Macbook Pro Retina, OSX 10.10.3

[NaimGaim]

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Found another little bug...

Since I don't like to have a different genre for any other album, I group similar genres together as one:
e.g. Electro/Wave/Gothic, Blues/Classic Rock, Hardrock/Metal, Jazz/Swing, ect.

With the ripped and tagged .AIFF files, it worked as expected.
But with the .AAC files, all slashes got replaced by backslashes!

Had to retag the genre with another utility to make them appear at the right place in iTunes...
I guess, this was an old DOS habit got stuck in the programmer?

[NaimGaim]

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I'm having a problem when using the Multi-Encoder. I have it setup to do both Apple Lossless and m4a FDK AAC. It seems to error out on multiple tracks. The destination that the Lossless files are supposed to go shows only Folder.jpg and no-filename-specified.m4a. The destination that the AAC files are supposed to go to show the same 2 files.

If I just rip the same CD with only Apple Lossless I have no issues.

I have had this happen with both the released version and the 1.2 beta. I'm running 10.8.5 Mountain Lion if it's helpful.

Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 4' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
---cut

Thanks,
Ron

I have that problem, too! I use AIFF for my QNAP silent NAS (home stereo), and AAC for iTunes (portable use). Single encoder works for both formats, but multi-encoder does not. Although the ripping process seems to run through normally, only one "Folder.jpeg" and one empty "no-filename-specified.(audioformat)" file exist in the end in each target folders (MQ and LQ). Not even the folder structure /artistname/albumname gets created...

In the info after the single format rips, it show no errors. But in the multi-format rips, it shows quite some errors (from the same CD!) live e.g. those:

AIFF: Warning 'RiffSizeLeft != FileSizeLeft' must be extra data on end of file.  [ScanFile]
   AIFF: Error calculated total AIFF chunk size differs from file.  [ScanFile]
   Warning 'RiffSizeLeft != FileSizeLeft' must be extra data on end of file.  [ScanFile]

Silence detected, ReplayGain track tag not generated  [EndConversion]
   AIFF: Silence detected, ReplayGain track tag not generated  [EndConversion]
   m4a FDK (AAC): Silence detected, ReplayGain track tag not generated  [EndConversion]

 AIFF: Warning 'RiffSizeLeft != FileSizeLeft' must be extra data on end of file.  [ScanFile]
   AIFF: Error calculated total AIFF chunk size differs from file.  [ScanFile]
   Warning Chunk is out of AIFF area (but still inside file).  [ScanFile]

Tested with dBp 1.1 final and 1.2 beta with same results. iMac 27" mid 2011 with integrated Superdrive, OS 10.10.3 with all current updates.

Any news when and in which version this bug will be fixed? I waited a long time for the OS X version and wanted to license it now - but this is some kind of show stopper... I have a lot of CDs to rip and don't like to unnecessarily double the effort and time. Thanks ;-)

[PeterP]

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Bought the MacOS version last week. Still haven't deleted the Windows version from Bootcamp on my iMac (same computer as the Mac version!), but was going to do so today until I came across the following fault :

Put the latest Classic Rock magazine CD (One Nation Under The Groove) in the mac's superdrive, and as expected, not yet in database, so set off to enter all the details manually. However, the 'Review Metadata' box was greyed out, so couldn't enter the various artists etc. Restarted in Bootcamp, and the Windows version is working fine. Review metadata NOT greyed out, so I entered all the details and ripped the CD.

Tried a couple of old (previously ripped on Windows version) compilation CDs on the Mac version, and Review metadata was OK (i.e. not greyed out).

Does the Mac version just 'not like' this particular CD?

Thanks for your feedback.
I would like to get a snapshot of your dBpoweramp configuration for analysis.
Please go to dBpoweramp configuration ( "configure" button in the launcher window ), Music Converter tab, "Save configuration snapshot" button at the bottom; email the resulting file to peter@dbpoweramp.com.
Thanks.

[Eric Seaberg]

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I think I mentioned this several months ago and have opted to use the Win version running Parallels for multi encodes. I still use the Mac version for everything else.

[HRockefeller]

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I'm having a problem when using the Multi-Encoder. I have it setup to do both Apple Lossless and m4a FDK AAC. It seems to error out on multiple tracks. The destination that the Lossless files are supposed to go shows only Folder.jpg and no-filename-specified.m4a. The destination that the AAC files are supposed to go to show the same 2 files.

If I just rip the same CD with only Apple Lossless I have no issues.

I have had this happen with both the released version and the 1.2 beta. I'm running 10.8.5 Mountain Lion if it's helpful.

Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 4' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 5' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 9' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 14' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 15' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.

Thanks,
Ron

Hi, I'm having the exact same problem. Can rip tracks effortlessly with many settings using a single encoder, but attempts at making any multi-encoder rips don't work: Get the same no-filename-specified message.

HR

[wouldbeirish]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter OS X Discussions

I'm having a problem when using the Multi-Encoder. I have it setup to do both Apple Lossless and m4a FDK AAC. It seems to error out on multiple tracks. The destination that the Lossless files are supposed to go shows only Folder.jpg and no-filename-specified.m4a. The destination that the AAC files are supposed to go to show the same 2 files.

If I just rip the same CD with only Apple Lossless I have no issues.

I have had this happen with both the released version and the 1.2 beta. I'm running 10.8.5 Mountain Lion if it's helpful.

Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 4' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 5' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 9' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 14' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.
Error converting to [Multi Encoder], 'Track 15' to '/tmp/no-filename-specified.ignore'
Apple Lossless: Error audio file failed verification '/Users/ron/Music/dBpoweramp/no-filename-specified.m4a.tmp.m4a'.

Thanks,
Ron

[docmart]

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p.s Mr Spoon : perhaps that should be in the on-line manual (if it isn't already)?