Because, what I'm getting now is not what I was expecting and I don't know if it's a bug, something funky with my setup, or just the way it's supposed to be.
I now have 3 CD-ROM drives in my PC. I set MC's Advanced Rip Settings to use 3 drives. I'm also having it rip to a single APE with CUE. I put CD's in each of the drives and closed the doors. I got one disc that ripped correctly, one disc that didn't rip at all, and one disc that ripped, but it's CUE had track info from the CD that didn't rip.
So I'm assuming that HAS to be a bug.
The next time, I put them in kind of staggered, so they wouldn't all try to run at the same time. One disc ripped, then the second disc ripped, and the third just sat there.
So from then on I stuck to just two drives.
Then I updated to .172. Now Autorip seems to be totally broken. It'll kick in and rip the first disc I stick in the drives, then spit it out. The second drive will then rip its disc, although sometimes it won't. And then more times or not, when I stick the next disc in, it'll get the info from YADB, but then never start ripping the CD.
I was under the impression that MC would rip from all three CD-ROM drives simultaneously. But it seems to be doing one, then the next. I'm not sure why three drives doesn't seem to work, and I'm wondering if there's some bug in the autorip with multiple drives part of MC.
Can anybody shed some light on this for me?
Here's my system info, if it helps...
Media Center Registered 11.1.172 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
AMD Unknown 1827 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 482 MB
Internet Explorer: 7.0.5299.0 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive X: E-IDE CD-ROM 48X/AKU Mode:ModeSecure Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive Y: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B Mode:ModeSecure Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive Z: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 Mode:ModeSecure Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: Yes Soundfile: C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Notify.wav
Burning / Drive Y: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B Addr: 0:2:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Drive Z: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 Addr: 0:0:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No /