Yes, with Unattendet

Hi Coen,

All my tracks are wav and it happens just since a few days ago, never happened before. On the other hand I´m making some important changes in the OS like partitions, besides testing different cd-roms. Maybe some of this has affected the XX configuration. The sound is great though.

I´m not sure yet if it happens with all my albums or only with some.

Juan

Hi Peter, I have a problem with the second track. After the first track is finished, I receive two messages "No Track given" and "Fail! No Track Data found" . If I turn on again XXHighEnd and select that second track then I have no problem with that track or the following. This only occurs when passing from the first track to the second one.

I´m not sure if I read something about this issue in some posts, sorry but I can´t find it

Juan

It happened again, the message is:
"Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key".

Today it happened while I was trying to use EAC, the CD/DVD drive was not recognized by EAC

In the bios the Sata 1, where the OS is installed, was not detected, neither the Plextor CDRom I was using that appeared in the bios just as a general CDRom, the only Sata detected was the Music hdd which has not OS.
Maybe the problem is in EAC (it is a beta version), or in the DVD/CD Plextor PX 890SA that I installed lately.

After rebooting (many times) I´ve installed a new Plextor 230A that I received today, I´m only using dBp and it´s working ok so far. If I get again the message I´ll make the partitions as you said.

Thanks a lot for your help!
Juan

So far it is working fine


I´m not using any external hdd, the two hdd I have are internal and are:

C: with two partitions:
- n.1 with OS (W7 Ultimate)/XXHighEnd
- n.2 with OS (W7 Ultimate)/dBpoweramp and EAC, besides Winrar and something else. No updates on any of the partitions and SP1 on both. No internet in the 1 partition and yes in the n.2 plus antivirus (off most of the time)

D: just with Music

To make the partitions I used Parted Magic

Juan

The problem is that once in a while the whole hdd where the partitions are "disappears" from the bios. It doesn´t "exists" anymore and I have to reboot again and again until it appears and is located in the bios, then I have to set again the booting order.

Now it is working ok and I´ve deactivated the virtual memory because I read in some place that it can affect the partitions to boot correctly, but I really don´t know if it could affect other things, neither for how long it will work correctly. If it fails again I´ll tell you the message that appears in the DOS window, I don´t remember exactly but it is something like "restart the system and set the booting order again"

Thanks boleary, I get the same DOS window as you and the settings in the control panel but I don´t know why once in a while it fails to boot properly.

Hey Mani, special happy New Year for you and your family!.

I´ve made a partition in my OS/XXHighEnd hdd to rip from there directly to the hdd where I have my music. The partitions give me some problems at reboot because some times this hdd can´t be found in the bios.

Boleary, don´t you have had any problems with your partitions?.

At the end I don´t know if I´ll have to forget about partitions and look for another way to rip directly to the music hdd, at this moment I don´t know how to do it. Any help will be welcome.

Cheers, Juan

Hey Peter, no more champagne before dinner ... I'm the one with white hair and mustache. What other else?

Cheers, Juan

Happy Christmas to all of you and your families from Juan´s Band

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Ok, thank you, I need some time to check it with Glitching in XXHigEnd and today is time to start thinking a little about tonight dinner and all those kind of things.

Happy Christmas to all of you!!

Thanks Peter,

Well, then it´s a matter of probability.

Thinking again about it, if I get Accuraterips with the laptop that means that they are correctly read. If the music PC can´t read that files could means that the laser or whatever in the driver is not as good for reading.
Juan

Some of my older cds have errors when ripping, that´s due to some scratches because of the use.

The problem is that when I rip this cds in my Sony laptop with a Blueray/dvd/cdrom driver using EAC or dBpoweramp they are ripped correctly with no errors detected but if I rip these cds in my music PC with the LG driver either with EAC or dBpoweramp the errors are detected.

What does it mean? that the Sony driver is a bad driver because it doesn´t detect the errors or is the LG driver in the music PC that is a bad driver that can´t read correctly some cds in bad conditions?.

After I read the thread mentioned by Peter in the previous post I took other path. I made a copy of one of those cds using Nero in a cdr and after that I ripped directly this cdr in my music PC. The result: perfect files with no errors at all and correct AccurateRip results in all the tracks.

I´d like some help though on the previous question about which one is the bad driver

Juan

Hi Flecko,

This is what Peter said in a previous post about this issue:

"Two identical files should not bring any difference that I can think of.
The processing coming along with it (like rip - play after 5 minutes or so), does.
The location where it is played from ? does.
There's some more."

As I said in my post I´m not a technical guy, so I can´t help on this regard, sorry. What I can say is that ripping with the two different methods (direct/indirect) and with the two different software (EAC/dBpoweramp) and locating the ripped files in the same directory, even in the same final folder, the sound is different. Why?, some other could explain it better. What I did is to choose the method I liked more or sound better for my taste. Something absolutely subjetive and I can uderstand perfectly that other person could choose other different method/software. This is why I´d recommend to test it in your own system.


Hi boleary,

I know your post about it:

"Anyone ever done an analysis of dbpoweramp v EAC? Is one supposed to be better than the other?"

That pushed me to make this test, so the idea was yours and I thank you for it. I encourage you, however, to do a test and thus have more points of view.

If I understand well you have two partitions in one hdd, one with Vista and other one with W7. The partition with Vista has internet/antivirus/dBpoweramp. The partition with W7 has the OS and XXHigEnd. You have also another internal hdd where you send "directly" the ripped files. That files are backed up to an external hdd automatically when you plug it in.
Is that correct?. If so I think that´s a similar way to rip as mine. Could it be even better than mine because I have dBp in the same drive as XXHighEnd and the OS and I don´t know if it could have any influence in sound.


Hi Coen,

Very interesting, I don´t know if I would be able to make correctly that test, maybe others could enlight us about it.

Juan

Hi Joachim,

In order to get full advantage of dBp or EAC you need to have an Internet connection in the computer you have the ripping software installed, it´s needed to get the Meta Data and to use AccurateRip.

What I wanted to say is that when I was using my laptop to rip the cds the internet connection was in this laptop. In such a case I was using the music PC just for playing music and I wanted to keep this music PC as "clean" as possible even without internet. This is what I called the "indirect" way of ripping because I used an usb card to transport the ripped cds from the laptop to the music PC.

Now that I use the "direct" ripping method I have the internet connection in my music PC. No other software in this PC other than XXHighEnd and dBpoweramp. Neither antivirus.

Sorry if I was confusing
Juan