Ripping stops in the last cut

[Shawn Rosvold]

Hi,

I am running into a problem with some, not all, discs ripping with no problem until they reach the last cut on the CD. Then it stops at anywhere from about 50% to 80%. It sits and does nothing. I can't eject the CD until I power off the B2 and turn it back on. Then I have to re-start the web UI so that the ripping CD disappears and it says CD empty. Any ideas why?

[Peter Lowham]

Hi Shawn,

One possibility is that the problem CDs have something like a non-music (such as a video) track on the last track.  The B2 does not deal with these at all well.

Regards,

Peter.

[Shawn Rosvold]

Thanks, Peter. I'm not sure why this happens, so I have been ripping the recalcitrant discs to my laptop. I had never done this before, and I am very pleased with how easy Windows Media Player makes the task. Then the upload to the B2 is quite easy and quick.

[PMB]

Hi sros...,

Try doing a Web Upgrade - Settings menu.

How many CDs does this affect?

Paul

Brennan Support.

[Shawn Rosvold]

Hi Paul,

It doesn't happen that often. Maybe one in 30. I just updated, so if it happens again I'll reply here and let you know.

Thank you!

Shawn

[Daniel Lowe]

I just had this happen, two CDs in a row. Ripping is going normally then half way thru the last track, the ripping stops, really locks up, the CD will only eject manually. I did a web update, and tried one again, and it locked up half way thru the last track again. Not a video track.

Just tried a different CD and it ripped normally.

Ideas?

Dan

[PMB]

Hi Dan,

Please let us details for the two CDs that didn't completely rip.

Using the web UI check the track list for these CDs - insert one into the drive and wait for look up to display a title (bottom left hand panel) >> make sure it displays the correct title for the CD >> click the title to show the Track listing - check this exactly matches the CD - it could be the CDDB is different from the actual CD.

Paul

Brennan Support.

[Daniel Taylor]

Look for scratches on the disc that run tangential to the circular direction of the data.  The last track will be further away from the center hole.  Circular or tangential scratches can cause any CD player or drive to have fits.  Sometimes even a tiny bit of lint laying in that direction can have the same effect.

[Mark Fishman]

Also, any CD with playing time over 80 minutes is actually out of spec. The Red Book (audio) CD spec is for 74 minutes maximum playing time, but the spec allows for +/- tolerances on the pitch of the spiral ("groove"); by keeping to the tightest allowed pitch they can get 80 minutes.

Anything over 80 minutes is not guaranteed to be playable on all drives.

Are any of the problem discs very long?

[Shawn Rosvold]

I had this happen on several discs that I was trying to rip using an external CD player connected to the B2 via USB. I'm not sure why they wouldn't work. I found success by using Windows Media Player to rip them. I then uploaded them to the B2 using the web UI.

[M Story]

I am a new B2 owner with 500+ discs to load.  I am reading the conversations to develop a strategy for loading.  I will connect the B2 to an audio/video system controlled by a Savant system here in the US.  My wife is site impaired and my first question is: should I load them in a genre order to assist her in finding "her kind of music" more easily?  I have concluded that the most efficient way to load the CDs is to do so on a computer-transfer to a Fat32 USB and then input via USBA (preferred) or C.  We have only Apple computers and I have not seen any discussions using them nor whether to rely on their ripping programs or use some other?  Any comments please.  Has anyone any experience with the Savant System?

[JFBUK]

Hi,

you will have seen mention of dBpoweramp on this forum and its a good choice for ripping CDs. There is a version for Apple OS X.

There is a free trial period and a nominal amount to register for the full product

https://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper.htm

dBpoweramp also have the capability to script the naming of your ripped music files according to the metadata tag values it finds for the music when it searches the

databases it uses. Note than you can also edit those metadata values before you actually rip.

The B2 does not currently make significant use of metadata tags.

I have a large number of compilation albums (magazine giveaways and subscription) which have a CD artist = "Various Artists" so I build a ripped file name that includes

the track artist name. This screenshot might help illustrate

this means I can see the artist  name when I look at what's playing for these albums

You do not mention how you plan to control the B2 once connected to your existing system ?

If you plan to use the B2 Web UI then this has good search functionality for artist, album, & track but the B2 does include genre as an attribute to search on.

The B2 does have the ability to create playlists and you could address the genre question by building playlists based on genre.

An alternative is to build your track names to include the genre similar to the above (some other contributors on here might be horrified by that :) )

e.g.

Train’s Leaving[Worry Dolls ] - Americana.flac

where genre = Americana

There are probably other ways to skin the genre cat

I have no experience of Savant I'm afraid but I would not expect you to be able to manage the B2 playback via the Savant app.

Hope this helps

John