PART 1: Technical Discussion; Questions CDDA Ripping, PerfectTUNES etc.

[Edward3]

Hi Spoon,

Thank you for your continued work—I’ve been following your forums for many years.

Apologies for the length and number of questions. I’ve consolidated them here for efficiency, and due to text limits, had to post in multiple parts. I hope that’s okay.

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[racsan24]

I had ripped a few hundred CDs with the trial version with no problem, now that I bought the license 2 days ago, none of my very common (Bjork, Kate Bush) CDs are in AccurateRip according to dBPoweramp. I am currently using Secure ripping, but is there anything else I can do?

[PyroRocker]

Hi,

I'm trying to set the name of the directory that CD Ripper rips to. I would like it to be basically `year - albumname (Disc discno - disctitle)`. The disc segment is omitted for single disc releases, e.g. '1969 - Led Zeppelin' and '1993 - In Utero (Disc 2 - Live 1993 / 1994)'. Any...

[Wickedfox]

In dbpoweramp control center I have tagging set to ID3, yet when I rip a album and play it through windows media player, the album art doesn't come up. Does WMP not read those tags or am I missing something? I also have the tag album art selected in the CDGrab tagging settings. Im gonna put the files...

[Vergiss Es]

I would like to convince Windows to start "Edit ID Tags" on double click of a flac/mp3-file. If I select the program GetPopupInfo.exe dbpoweramp tells me, that this program can't run standalone.
Is this possible?

[RetroBurner]

Good morning! I am experiencing an odd issue. Whenever I power my laptop on, I am initially able to rip from "problematic" discs without any issues. However, after that first rip, if I try to rip from the disc (or another problematic disc), I get tons of re-ripped frames. This is happening...

[RetroBurner]

Good evening! I have several questions about C2 Error Pointers, AccurateRip, and ripping discs over USB as opposed to SATA.

1) I recently purchased a BD-RE BH14NS48 (supposedly the most reliable drive according to AccurateRip). I loaded a Marker Test CD, a CD with a bunch of scratches,...

[RetroBurner]

Good morning! Has anyone written a guide on how to get dbPoweramp running in Linux, preferably inside of Bottles for Fedora 42? I would REALLY like to move from Windows 10 to Linux once and for all, and this is one of the very few pieces of software that I really need to hold onto from Windows!

[uff-da]

I had just finished setting up a NAS and was looking forward to turning my back on iTunes for ripping my CDs and using this software I hear so much about. The NAS was built using an old mac mini I have, and the most recent version of macOS it'll run is High Sierra, which the current dBpoweramp doesn't...

[steadytothesun]

Hi! I'm trying to rip a cd to .flac for the first time because there exist only .mp3 files of the album; however I'm getting inaccurate reads on only the last 2 songs, and the cd ejects in the middle of ripping the second to last. This happened with EAC as well so I switched to dbpoweramp.
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[XanderKnox]

System: Windows 10
dBpoweramp release: 17.1

Howdy! When I open dB and click on "Batch Converter", everything shows up fine (two windows, one on the left shows all of my drive paths/folders). When I click on the "parent" folder for my music, nothing shows on the...

[miserablethekid]

Hi I recently downloaded EAC because I was trying to rip the Singles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)[Deluxe Edition] from 2017, which I found out was an EU pressing. I use an ASUS BW-16D1H-U PRO blu-ray drive which I had bought in June 2022. and up till this point I had already ripped some 20-30...

[ejiggle]

To get a few inevitable questions out of the way:

Ripped using DBPoweramp- Secure (Recover Errors) > Drive Speed MAX > Ultra Secure 2/4/2 > Re-Reads 34, Speed MAX > Drive Read Cache 1024KB- AccurateRip > Query Rupping Results > Cross Pressing Verification- CD ROM >...

[belinea2010]

If i hover my mouse over a known 32 bit float wav file the dbPoweramp info box its displayed showing the various atributes of the file.
Things such as:
Type:
Size:
Length:
Channels:
Sample Rate:

and importantly for me
Sample Size:

as...

[Aoxomoxa]

Hi there, I just bought dBpoweramp and PerfecTUNES (version 2024-04-01) yesterday, so I'm still poking around trying to understand stuff.

One thing I'd be grateful for a little explanation on: in PerfecTUNES it says "Fully registered, no restrictions - updates for life". But...