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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: savkar on September 28, 2004, 06:24:48 am
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I recently upgraded from MediaJukeBox 9 to Mediacenter 10. I was able to flawlessly rip from my two CD drives (one is a CDRW (TDK) and the other is a Plextor 708a).
However since i upgraded, I cannot rip anymore in MC...
The symptoms:
(i) Put in CD, YADB lookup, everything set and I select the right tracks for ripping.
(ii) Hit "rip" and for a few seconds I see the message "initializing". Then next thing I know, it indicates complete without having done anything!
I looked thru the forum and did not see anyone with this same issue, and I tried updating to the latest MC to try to fix things, with no change.
I presume a setting just got borked, but I have tried everything and so far no results.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is quite depressing. Otherwise MC looks great, and I am excited at having a more robust interface.
Sunil
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Can you copy your system info from MC...
Help
System Info
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Here it is:
Media Center Registered 10.0.173 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium 4 1778 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 172 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1552 / Shell32.dll: 5.00.3900.6922 / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0002) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0002)
Ripping / Drive D: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive E: TDK CDRW5200B Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A Addr: 2:0:0 Speed:40 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Drive E: TDK CDRW5200B Addr: 2:1:0 Speed:52 MaxSpeed:52 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
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Try uninstalling, rebooting, and resinstalling.
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Okay, I'll try this evening when I get home. I note that i am able to rip with almost every other program I have-- very strange.
Sunil
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Well, no go.
I unintalled, rebooted, and reinstalled. Additional symptoms I am having:
(i) Noticed that with digital playback checked for audio, that I would get errors even when trying to play a song. I unchecked, and now it starts "playing" the song but there is no sound... I checked windows media player and another third party program, and they both work and play thru my speakers.
(ii) I still get the same issue when trying to rip. I will select the album, and it just indicates (a) initializng and then (b) complete without any indication of what went wrong.
Any additional checks/fixes? With Media Jukebox 9, I could just install it and away I went. I can't see why Media Center needs tweaking up front to work...
Sunil
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Are you logged in with admin privileges? If not, we have a small utility which will open up access to the CD drives for non-admin users in MC.
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No, I think I definitely have admin privileges. I am running Windows 2000 on the machine...
Is there any other information dump I could provide that may (i) ascertain why playback is not working properly and (ii) what the issue with ripping is too... Some sort of debug diag mode or something where I can get a dump to send you?
BTW, I will try playback of mp3s tonight that are already ripped and see if that is a problem too.
Sunil
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Sunil,
You've got one of those "weird" problems going on. It's more than MC. Possibilities I can think of include:
Bad download. Try downloading again and don't use a download manager.
Virus checker mangling the file?
Security settings preventing installation of some components?
Drive problems or memory problems.
Virus problem.
Etc.
Version 10 isn't any different than 9 in terms of installation and setup. It should install and run.
You might learn something by installing the same file on another PC.
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Okay, I will check it out. I may go back and reinstall MJ 9 and see if the problem is there too (it certainly wasn't previously).
Sunil