Normal?
Posted by: True Blue on 02 October 2014
Hi all, in the process of ripping my CD's. Noticed one took AGES and then it only imported half of songs. Tried next album, disc spinning but not ripping, tried another, same
Playback working normally.
Powered down the unit and restarted seems to be ripping first disc.
Anyone else experienced this with the Serve, is this normal or does it require to go back?
Could be bad disks or a bad DVD drive. I just had to replace the DVD drive on my HDX. Look at the ripping log for errors and post it here.
Out of my relatively small collection of ca. 500 CD's I had a couple that wouldn't rip, and quite a few that took a long time to rip.
The 'problem' ones tended to be late 80's/early 90's issues.
But it was only a very small number.
If its happening on every one you are trying to rip now, could be there is a problem.
Have another try today now that the unit has cooled down?
When I was in full rip mode last year, the most I managed was 80 in a day. The Serve was whirring away for over 12 hours. Like Chris, out of 2,000 albums there were about six that would not rip. A couple of others had problems where they started and then stopped, and had to be removed by poking a paper clip in the little hole. If your problems are more frequent than that, ask for a replacement.
I don't have a US but it sounds like it is doing something like the same when I spent a long & boring weekend ripping all my CD's .........
I ripped my CD's using a fairly large commercial grade disc reader with dBpoweramp; it would rip CD's at various speeds depending how easy it could read them, some went thru in 1 or 2 minutes at speeds around x60, others took 5 to 10 minutes with speeds varying slow-fast-slow sometimes as low as x2 & some tracks failed to get the dBpoweramp "AccurateRip" approval (this is dBpoweramp feature comparing your CD against up to 200 others from other peeps rips they keep on their www database)
I tried various things such as washing/degreasing the CD (Astonish Tile & Glass with a fine e-cloth is a good tip)
I found most "failed" tracks were last or near last on the disc (closest to the disc edge) & indicative of the CD "rot" problem.
The nice thing with using this type of machine was I had it hooked into my laptop & could monitor progress & was able to see the signs of trouble, cancel the rip, clean &/or whatever & start again.
In the end, out of 500+ CD's, only 12 failed to get the AccurateRip approval, but even so are able to play OK. And like ChrisH's experience are 80/90's CD's & most all are the free with the sunday paper or giggly pop compilations, so it has to be said - am I bover'd ???
Thanks for all replies. Touch wood since I reset the serve last night I have ripped approx. 100 CD's no problems :-)