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Hi there! I am a new customer of your product, having purchased it to aid in a project where I am re-ripping my collection of about 1200 CDs. My previous rips were in MP3 and not secure (Itunes), so I am redoing my collection with secure/accuarate rips, and in lossless.
Due to the high volume of discs to be ripped, I am using two computers at once, one is a mac using the donation-ware XLD software, and the other is a PC using dBpoweramp reference.
While I am very happy with the product overall and commend you on your excellent work, the concurrent use of both programs has given me a chance to notice that there are two very specific aspects of dBpoweramp that make a large ripping project much less "automated" for the average user with one drive per computer, that it seems to me would be trivial to implement on a programming level:
1-dBpoweramp does not have an optional preference setting to "automatically begin ripping" once the disc is inserted and the title info is looked up. As a result, every time I put a disc in, I have to stop and wait for the data to be looked up, then manually click on the "rip" icon in the upper left. This is not ideal at all for two reasons:
a-It goes against the goal of just quickly putting a disc in, while walking by the computer, when you see a previous disc has finished ripping and has auto ejected
b-Even when sitting and using that same computer, it is way too easy to "forget" that last step of clicking the rip icon when you are multi-tasking. As a result, I have had several times when I put the disc in and then time goes by before I remember to do that last step.
I have seen some discussion on the forums that you can get this feature by purchasing a 2nd program called Batch Ripper, that provides this auto start feature. However, that feature seems to be aimed at professional situations and has many other features, whereas I, like many customers I imagine, just want to use your main program, dBpoweramp, but have the ripping process be as automated as possible.
By contrast, XLD on the mac has this feature and it makes a big difference. You put in a disc, it starts ripping, period (as an optional setting of course)
2-dBpoweramp can be set to auto eject the disc, but does not have a preference for the eject process to reflect the status of if all of the rip was accurate. It would be ideal to have a preference setting that lets you know that if you see/hear that disc eject, then all tracks were ripped accurately with accuraterip, and you can not give it a 2nd thought and proceed to put in the next disc. By contrast, if any of the tracks were not accurate or secure, then it can make a "finished" sound, but not eject the disc. This serves as your warning that something was not ideal, and to check out the log.
Again, this is how XLD does things, and it makes things so much easier. If I hear/see a disc eject, I don't even need to look at the saved log, since I know all tracks were ripped accurately. With dBpoweramp, I always need to stop and carefully look at the log, because I have no idea if all the tracks were ripped accurately or not.
When you combine both of these issues above, it really does slow down the process of ripping a large collection, compared to using XLD. With XLD on the mac, I can just blindly feed it discs with the monitor turned off, and just know that's all I have to do and that if a disc ejects, all was accurate and no need to check logs. With dBpoweramp, things are much more "hands on": I have to keep the monitor on, wait and click the rip button (and remember to do so), and then carefully check the popup log window at the end to make sure there were no innacurate rips.
Could you please let me know if either of these features are planned, and if so, when we might expect an update with them implemented.
If they are not planned, could you please let me know the idea of why this would be so, such as too difficult to implement on a technical level, or if it is a business decision, in order to protect sales of the batch ripper program.
Thanks!
Due to the high volume of discs to be ripped, I am using two computers at once, one is a mac using the donation-ware XLD software, and the other is a PC using dBpoweramp reference.
While I am very happy with the product overall and commend you on your excellent work, the concurrent use of both programs has given me a chance to notice that there are two very specific aspects of dBpoweramp that make a large ripping project much less "automated" for the average user with one drive per computer, that it seems to me would be trivial to implement on a programming level:
1-dBpoweramp does not have an optional preference setting to "automatically begin ripping" once the disc is inserted and the title info is looked up. As a result, every time I put a disc in, I have to stop and wait for the data to be looked up, then manually click on the "rip" icon in the upper left. This is not ideal at all for two reasons:
a-It goes against the goal of just quickly putting a disc in, while walking by the computer, when you see a previous disc has finished ripping and has auto ejected
b-Even when sitting and using that same computer, it is way too easy to "forget" that last step of clicking the rip icon when you are multi-tasking. As a result, I have had several times when I put the disc in and then time goes by before I remember to do that last step.
I have seen some discussion on the forums that you can get this feature by purchasing a 2nd program called Batch Ripper, that provides this auto start feature. However, that feature seems to be aimed at professional situations and has many other features, whereas I, like many customers I imagine, just want to use your main program, dBpoweramp, but have the ripping process be as automated as possible.
By contrast, XLD on the mac has this feature and it makes a big difference. You put in a disc, it starts ripping, period (as an optional setting of course)
2-dBpoweramp can be set to auto eject the disc, but does not have a preference for the eject process to reflect the status of if all of the rip was accurate. It would be ideal to have a preference setting that lets you know that if you see/hear that disc eject, then all tracks were ripped accurately with accuraterip, and you can not give it a 2nd thought and proceed to put in the next disc. By contrast, if any of the tracks were not accurate or secure, then it can make a "finished" sound, but not eject the disc. This serves as your warning that something was not ideal, and to check out the log.
Again, this is how XLD does things, and it makes things so much easier. If I hear/see a disc eject, I don't even need to look at the saved log, since I know all tracks were ripped accurately. With dBpoweramp, I always need to stop and carefully look at the log, because I have no idea if all the tracks were ripped accurately or not.
When you combine both of these issues above, it really does slow down the process of ripping a large collection, compared to using XLD. With XLD on the mac, I can just blindly feed it discs with the monitor turned off, and just know that's all I have to do and that if a disc ejects, all was accurate and no need to check logs. With dBpoweramp, things are much more "hands on": I have to keep the monitor on, wait and click the rip button (and remember to do so), and then carefully check the popup log window at the end to make sure there were no innacurate rips.
Could you please let me know if either of these features are planned, and if so, when we might expect an update with them implemented.
If they are not planned, could you please let me know the idea of why this would be so, such as too difficult to implement on a technical level, or if it is a business decision, in order to protect sales of the batch ripper program.
Thanks!
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