I have used 4 rom drives with both MC11 & 12, on my last PC, and this new PC.
Sometimes MC will have trouble detecting insertion of discs and need to be prodded.
For example, insert one disc at a time but in quick succession. Select one disc for pre-rip tagging. Switch to another drive, and it is empty, no message to 'double-click', just empty until the drive is re-selected after selecting another (sometimes 2-3x). Sometimes there is a lag upon selection of a drive, then the tracks show up; most of the time I'm switching between drives trying to jumpstart recognition.
This is all occurring after the drives have had plenty of time for access. Maybe it's just good old Windows at the root of this issue; could be a bad drive mucking the whole thing up. In the end, MC can 'see' all the discs, but it often requires the aforementioned switching. Other issues have also cropped up:
1. Insert, tag, and rip disc
2. Eject disc
3. Insert new disc
4. Drives & Devices window for same drive shows disc info from step 1.
5. Manually select update from cdplayer.ini with no change
6. Select other drives, view their meta-data, and come back to problem one, no change.
7. Eject disc, re-insert, and MC correctly updates (from cd-text or YADB)
I commonly use Player or Audiograbber and updating cdplayer.ini manual with MC works fine most of the time. I do however often have to select my drives more than once to get MC to read from them (using 4 drives and observed this for a long time).
Media Center 12.0.523 Registered -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 12\
Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
Intel Core 2 3008 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 2095 MB, Free - 1152 MB
Internet Explorer: 7.0.5730.13 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive E: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716AL Mode:ModeSecure Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive P: LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S Mode:ModeSecure Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive Q: LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S Mode:ModeSecure Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive S: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-3450A Mode:ModeSecure Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive E: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716AL Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:32 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Drive P: LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S Addr: 2:0:0 Speed:16 MaxSpeed:16 BurnProof:Yes
Drive Q: LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-1635S Addr: 2:1:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Drive S: _NEC DVD+-RW ND-3450A Addr: 2:2:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:24 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No /
Portable Device Info
Removed devices:
Interface Plugins:
last.fm (Active)
Library Server (Active/Enabled)
TiVo Server
UPnP Server
Data Master (not usually Active)
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