When CDs stop ripping

[darrenf]

(Tried to post this yesterday but I must have screwed up in some way, d'oh!)


In the first few days of ripping I've had a few cases where the whole process has just stopped. A CD finishes encoding, but the album art doesn't appear and the next one doesn't start ripping. In every case so far this has been down to the presence of data tracks at the end, like video footage and such like. I've been giving the process a kick -- after the encoding has finished (which is normally when I notice it) -- with these 2 commands (in this order) in the terminal



service vortexbox stop


service vortexbox start



It means no need to reboot, but the album art never arrives (which doesn't bother me, personally). Posting it here both as a tip to others, and also wondering whether anyone has any idea how to stop this happening.

[MikeDC]

I experienced this same exact problem. I found that I had somehow lost my DNS entries and the box was not hitting it's sources for looking up tag info.


The other thing that I discovered is that the box is often working even though it doesn't appear to be. For example, when I first started ripping my first CD's, I found that once the CD was ejected, the files were in place ready to play. Now that I have several ripped, I find that this process takes longer and it might be several minutes after the CD is ejected that everything has been converted from wav to flac and is ready to play.