Windows 8 and music converter

[srenovo]

Back again -
For some reason Win8 will not allow the right click feature of MC to work once I navigate to the desktop.
But I do get multiple cores working.

Win8 forces me to restart MC each time I switch albums - I have to go to the taskbar and click on the icon - once I do a conversion Win8 closes MC and I have to restart MC from the taskbar for the next album.
Any Thoughts?

When I do conversions I always have a folder with the album name nested inside the original album folder to serve as a home for the new MP3s.

I have tried pausing the conversion process and using one of the setting (do nothing) and I still closes the others would slow the process even more.

Is there a way to a. make the right click feature work? and b. keep MC open in windows 8 after the conversion.

If not, then since music is a hobby it will be time to rip :cry:out this HDD and put in a new one and install WIN7

[Spoon]

You could run Batch Converter, which will stay around after a conversion completes.

[srenovo]

Dear Spoon,

Not with my Win8 install - batch convert just sits there and does nothing. perhaps I don't know how to use it but when I press
convert for a group of album folders that I "checked" nothing happens it just sits there.

Do you have a link for using batch converter?

[dbfan]

When you click convert in batch converter, the music converter options page shows where you select the encoder.

[srenovo]

As I said not in my windows 8 install - nothing happens

[dbfan]

Perhaps you have security software which is blocking dBpoweramp....

Our testing of dBpoweramp on a fresh Windows 8 install, it operates 100% as normal.

[woeger]

Spoon, Glad to hear that it works with a fresh Windows 8 Install.

[ijarvile]

Hei Spoon, which you recommend or you would prefer to use with dbpoweramp, windows 7 or 8?

[Spoon]

Makes no difference.

[CD_Rewinder]

Having trouble with the install also. Windows 8 Pro (upgrade version) plus Kasperski Anti-Virus. I have tried installing with Kaspersky on and disabled. Makes no difference. I can't get the CD ripper to install at all, and the software will only run very slowly, if at all, if I first copy the tracks to the hard disk then convert them.

Messages like:

Error converting to FLAC, 'L:\Track01.cda' to 'C:\Users\XXX\Music\YYY\ZZZ\Track01.flac'
Unable to match CD drive to file.

Error converting to FLAC, 'C:\Users\XXX\Music\YYY\ZZZ\Track01.cda' to 'C:\Users\XXX\Music\YYY\ZZZ\Track01.flac'
CD Audio files can only be read from CD Drives (not .cda file copied to hard disc) [clDecoder::Open]

Am I missing something?

[Spoon]

You cannot copy .cda files to the HDD as they are virtual files (1KB each) the real track on a CD would be 30,000KB