Ok, I tried it. I love what you've done! It's 1000% better than the way it worked. I have some comments, suggestions, and bugs. I'll go through what I did:
I installed MC9, and set the default ripping settings. I told it to associate with audio CD's. Interestingly, it didn't default to associate with mp3's when installed. I changed that.
I then killed MC9, and stuck a CD in each of my two CD drives (D: and E:). XP popped up a dialog, asking me what app to associate with audio CD's. Can't you make it so that this doesn't happen? What effect does the "associate with audio cd's" setting in MC9 have?
After telling XP to associate "mcext...exe" (or something like that) with audio cd's, MC9 started up, and began ripping the first cd. (minor gripes: I think it would be nice if the rip dialog showed the album name, and showed the time elapsed while ripping) Question - what's the "5.1x" (for example) in the progress bar, mean?
MC9 then finished ripping the first CD, beeped, and ejected it. Cool! This is great.
Unfortunately, it didn't automatically start ripping the second cd (in the E: drive). It seems that auto-rip will only work with the first cd inserted.
Also, after ejecting the CD in the D drive and inserting another, it didn't auto-rip that, either. Obviously a bug - it needs to be able to auto-rip even if MC9 is already running.
Question - if it doesn't find a cd during lookup, how can you manually enter the info? I think the auto-rip dialog should let you enter in album name, genre, and track names for all tracks, and then have a continue button, or something.
Thanks for listening, and bfn.
- Dave