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Title: Multiple rip processes?
Post by: patricklang on December 30, 2012, 10:07:09 pm

I just hooked up two 1394 drives to my machine, and am trying to get it to rip 2 CDs simultaneously on MC 17.0.189

I set each drive to the right mode (Secure), and set Concurrent Ripping Processes to 2.

When I put a disk in each drive and hit rip - it says multiple discs, and lists the total number of tracks of the 2 cds combined.  However, once ripping starts, only one drive works at a time.  Once the first drive completes, the second one starts ripping.

Is this expected?  If its a bug, please let me know if you can try a fix in 18.  I can switch to 18 if needed, but I wanted to get this looked into before changing anything.

Title: Re: Multiple rip processes?
Post by: patricklang on December 30, 2012, 10:15:27 pm

Ah, looks like I may have found something.

Max combined processes was greyed out, and set to 1.  If I uncheck "Encode concurrently with ripping," then I can set max combined processes to a higher number (6).  It's now ripping 2 cds at once

Title: Re: Multiple rip processes?
Post by: JohnT on December 31, 2012, 11:35:46 am

Good find.  This will be fixed in the next build:

1. Fixed: When rip/encode simultaneous was enabled in advanced rip options, MC would not always allow multiple audio CD's to be ripped concurrently.

Title: Re: Multiple rip processes?
Post by: patricklang on January 01, 2013, 06:17:52 pm

Thanks for the update!  My stack of Plextors is ripping away.  I'll post on the MC18 forum if I run into more issues.

Simultaneous encode is preferable for me over separate processes because the CPU utilization is consistent.  I can still play games at a reasonable framerate while ripping discs in the background on my Core i5-3550.