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Title: Ripping Problems with MC 10
Post by: TPerkins on November 26, 2005, 02:54:40 pm

I cannot seem to rip CD's any longer with Media Center 10.  I have it all set up correctly, because it worked before, but now when I go to rip a cd, the program freezes and I am forced to restart.  As a solution, I tried downloading MC 11, which works, but then I found out that I would have to pay for the upgrade.  I don't understand why 11 works and 10 now does not.  Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Problems with MC 10
Post by: modelmaker on November 27, 2005, 04:04:09 am

Please post your system info from the help menu so we have more info to help you.

Title: Re: Ripping Problems with MC 10
Post by: LonWar on November 27, 2005, 07:58:15 pm

What format are you ripping to?  Any chance it's wma?

Title: Re: Ripping Problems with MC 10
Post by: TPerkins on December 03, 2005, 06:21:48 pm

Wow, I'm totally lost now.  I actually made this post for my boss, who has it on his AMD system.  On all my Pentiums, it works fine.  It's weird because for example, he upgraded to MC 11 today, and it worked for like the first 3 cds it ripped, then it froze again.  I think there is something seriously wrong with his computer, but I don't know what would interfere with MC 11 like that.  Any ideas?

I already checked for free disk space, thta's not a problem.

His system specs:
AMD Athlon 2200+  ~1.8Ghz
512 MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce2  64MB card
Hard drives:
Main: 7 GB 
Alternates:
75 GB
250 GB removable drive (This is the drive I'm ripping to, and I'm storing temp files and images on here as well.)

Thanks in advance for any help you all can provide.

Title: Re: Ripping Problems with MC 10
Post by: AndyCircuit on December 03, 2005, 06:54:06 pm

If I was you I would check the removeable drive. If it fails ( maybe for short periods of time only ?) it can force MC down while writing on it, even more likely if connected with USB. Just an idea...

Title: Re: Ripping Problems with MC 10
Post by: TPerkins on December 03, 2005, 07:05:49 pm

Quote from: AndyCircuit on December 03, 2005, 06:54:06 pm

If I was you I would check the removeable drive. If it fails ( maybe for short periods of time only ?) it can force MC down while writing on it, even more likely if connected with USB. Just an idea...

I thought of this, so I tried ripping to another internal drive, with no luck.  Also, it never fails in the middle of ripping.  For example, last time I tried, I did 3 cds with no problem, and then when starting the 4th cd, it failed.  I later came back after restarting and letting it sit for a while, and it ripped this 4th cd fine.  Very odd

Title: Re: Ripping Problems with MC 10
Post by: TPerkins on December 19, 2005, 11:15:37 am

any ideas anyone?

Title: Re: Ripping Problems with MC 10
Post by: JohnT on December 20, 2005, 09:21:33 am

Try ripping to uncompressed wave format to rule out an encoder bug.