VortexBox Appliance not encoding

[mtsars]

I've ripped approximately 500 cds with my VBA, but there a few that won't rip anything besides .wav files. *For example, here is the RipIt log of one cd where it creates the .wav files just fine, but doesn't encode Flac, W4A, or MP3. *Any ideas on what to do? *Any help would be greatly appreciated!



Thanks,

Mike



Artist: Sarah McLachlan

Album: RemixedID3-Genre: Techno ()

Category: musicbrainz

ASIN: B0000DEO1C

CDid: 92112d09

MB id: WWabYJ5_h1NZApG.jvrJvITji48-

CD length: 73:19

new-mediadir: /storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1

system: mkdir -m 0755 -p "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1"

system: mkdir -m 0755 -p "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1"

new-mediadir: /storage/music/flac/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1

system: mkdir -m 0755 -p "/storage/music/flac/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1"

system: mkdir -m 0755 -p "/storage/music/flac/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1"

system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 1 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/01_Fear_(Hybrid's_Super_Collider_mix).rip

"system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 2 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/02_Sweet_Surrender_(DJ_Tiësto_mix).rip"

system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 3 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/03_Angel_(Dusted_remix).rip"

system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 4 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/04_I_Love_You_(BT_mix).rip"

system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 5 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/05_Silence_(DJ_Tiësto's_in_Search_of_Sunrise_remi x).rip"

system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 6 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/06_Black_(William_Orbit_mix).rip"

system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 7 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/07_Possession_(Rabbit_in_the_Moon_mix).rip"

system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 8 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/08_Hold_On_(BT_mix).rip

"system: cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 9 *** * * * * * * "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/09_Plenty_(Fade_mix).rip"

system: eject /dev/sr0



"/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1/09_Plenty_(Fade_mix).rip"

system: eject /dev/sr0system: rmdir -p "/storage/music/wav/Sarah_McLachlan_-_Remixed_1" 2> /dev/null


All complete!

Ripping needed 11 minutes.Encoding needed 0 minutes.****************************************** ******************************

[Ron Olsen]

Several users have reported this problem.

Looking at your log file, my guess is it may have something to do with special

characters in the album name or track titles — see tracks 2 and 5.

You can try downgrading to the previous version of ripit and see if that helps.

Instructions are in this post:*http://vortexbox.org/forum/gen.....it/#p12374

[mtsars]

Thanks Ron, downgrading didn't seem to help, has it worked for others? *Also, do you have any idea on how to reach out to the development team that created/maintains ripit? *There seems to be quite a few applications with the ripit name online, and I'm not sure which one VB uses.



Thanks again,

Mike

[andrew]

Still not really sure what the problem is since many CDs with strange characters works fine. The home page for ripit can be found here.



http://www.suwald.com/ripit/about.php

[Ron Olsen]

mtsars said:


Thanks Ron, downgrading didn't seem to help, has it worked for others? *Also, do you have any idea on how to reach out to the development team that created/maintains ripit? *There seems to be quite a few applications with the ripit name online, and I'm not sure which one VB uses.

Thanks again,

Mike


You have several options for a CD that doesn't rip/encode using the VB Auto Ripper:

1. Change the metadata lookup options to use CDDB instead of Musicbrainz.

My guess is that the metadata for one or more tracks on the troublesome CD are

what's causing the problem. *Using CDDB instead of Musicbrainz for the metadata may help.

Edit /etc/ripit/config and change mb=1 to mb=0 and CDDBHOST=musicbrainz.org to CDDBHOST=freedb.org, then restart the*Auto Ripper.

2. Use dBpoweramp on a Windows machine.

dBpoweramp is an excellent ripper/encoder, but it costs US $38. Well worth it if you

have a Windows machine with a decent optical drive. See http://www.dbpoweramp.com.*

3. Try ripit from the command line.

You can specify which tracks to rip, and even run ripit interactively with the "-i" option.

*See man ripit for details. *Turn off the Auto Ripper first by service vortexbox stop.

Using ripit from the command line in interactive mode, and selecting which tracks to

rip, may shed some light on which tracks are causing problems with the encode step.

4. Download and install crip, a command-line ripper.

crip is an interactive command-line ripper available at http://bach.dynet.com/crip. *

You can edit filenames and tags before the rip. See*http://info.vortexbox.org/tiki.....?page=crip*

for info on installing and using crip.

[KJ]

An alternative to dBpoweramp (as mentioned above by Ron) is Exact Audio Copy (EAC) which is a free ripper/encoder for Windows.

[stevied123]

Thanks for the tip on EAC, it's helped me rip a few "problem" cds.

Any progress on this problem from anyone? Vortexbox just gets worse with every passing day. I tried to rip 4 cds today, and VB could only manage 2 of them. To add insult to injury, they were both one part of a two disc set - VB could rip one of each set but not the other.

[avalx]

There's a new version of ripit in the latest update - did you try that version


ripit-3.9.0-5.fc14.noarch

[stevied123]

I wasn't aware of it, thanks, I'll give that a try.

[stevied123]

No joy I'm afraid.

Installed the new version of ripit, but it's still encoding to WAV rather than FLAC.

This is getting very annoying.