I've got an Adaptec 2906 SCSI adapter in a P3 running XP Home. I have 3-Plextor PX-32TSi drives with the latest drivers. Everytime I try to rip wavs from any of the drives I get the following message:
Read Track Failed. Failed to extract digital audio.
What actually happens is that I hit the "Start" button, the "Status" column reads "Initializing", the front bezel drive lights toggle between "Disc" and "On/Busy" a couple of times (at times they are both lit), then the "Status" column changes to "Copying" and the the error message appears at the exact same moment.
This seems to happen regardless of changes to Options settings, except that ripping works when the copy mode is set to "Analog". Interestingly, when I simply try to play the CD using MC9, I can get the disc to start but the none of the drives will respond to either "Pause" or "Stop".
Funny thing is that Windows Media Player works fine - both playing, pausing, stopping and ripping the disc. Also, EAC has no problem ripping the disc as well. I have done all of these tests with multiple discs so it's not an issue of bad media.
I really want to use MC9 for ripping - can anyone please help me to understand why this is not working.
Thanks so much.
For the record, I have searched the forum for solutions, tested advice given to others and uninstalled all potentially conflicting software and it hasn't had an effect on this problem. This machine has almost nothing else on it besides MC9 and I'm using version: 9.0.180
UPDATE: I just installed 9.1.291 and the error message comes up in around 3 or 4 seconds, as opposed to the 20 seconds it took for 9.0.180.
Media Center 9.1.291 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium III 795 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 94 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1226 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32 DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive K: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive L: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / No burners found.
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None