XLD problem

Posted by: Paul Hannan on 16 January 2010

Hi

I've been using XLD to rip my music collection but have grown tired of the many times it takes forever to rip a CD. I'm currently looking at an estimated time for completion of one track of nearly 500mins! I've tried MAX but can't get it to maintain the CD title structure when it plays on the NAIMUNity via a NetGear ReadyNAS. Has anyone else experienced this problem with XLD??? I'm using a Mini Mac to rip the CDs. Many thanks

Paul

Posted on: 16 January 2010 by james n

Only with discs with copy protection and others where i can see a distinct mark which i've cleaned off. Copy protected discs tend to stick at the first or second track and then XLD comes up with a daft completion time.

James

Posted on: 16 January 2010 by pcstockton

Paul,

Is this with ALL of your cDs or just one or two?

-patrick

Posted on: 16 January 2010 by Paul Hannan

To be honest its a majority, probably 80 %. Typically this happens when it is about 3/4 through. I have looked at CPU usage and its maxxing out even though there is little or no progress once it gets stuck. the first 3/4 of tracks are processed within a few minutes.

Posted on: 16 January 2010 by pcstockton

I dont think this is an XLD problem. There could be a hundred reasons why it is running slowly.

Unless 80% of your CDs are filthy, are severely scratched, it shouldn't take longer than say 15-20 minutes to rip a disc to FLAC.

Ive ripped with XLD (to FLAC) on a Mac Mini and it seemed faster than EAC. Albeit much slower than an iTunes burst mode rip.

More info...

What codec are to ripping to?
How much RAM?
Have you ever noticed anything wrong with the drive?
Are you trying to do other things with the computer while ripping?
Do you have a ton of other programs running?

-patrick

Posted on: 16 January 2010 by likesmusic

15 - 20 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!

Use dBpoweramp. Verified correct in half that time.

Posted on: 16 January 2010 by Joe Bibb

Check the "CD rip" settings under preferences, they are probably too paranoid. Have a look at those. The "Test Before Copy" will slow things down for no gain, un-check that and try again.

Joe

Posted on: 16 January 2010 by Michael Chare

I use dbpoweramp to rip CDs. In secure mode (where it tries to correct errors) it can take forever to rip a CD if it is dirty or damaged. When that happens I give the CD another clean, and if there are still more that 50 or so errors, I just do a burst rip.

I run Mediatomb on my ReadyNAS because the ReadyNAS uPnP server was displaying a CD's track names in alphabetical sequence.
With Mediatomb the tracks are displayed in file name sequence, and the names all begin 01, 02 etc. These numbers are not displayed on the Uniti as Mediatomb passes the name held in the Tag data.