Ripping Logistics

Posted by: Dozey on 28 September 2013

I have now had the Unitiserve for 5 days. After ripping my 50 favourite albums I have now completed about 150 starting from A and am now up to Beefheart. It takes about 5 minutes per disc, and I seem to be able to manage about 30 a night before getting bored. 1 CD has refused to rip so far, no big mistakes in the data, and only 2 cases where album art has not been located. I will fix this later.

 

The best bit is not having to worry about which software to download to rip, or having to do a separate accuraterip check. Or worry about any computer related settings. This has no doubt saved me several hours of drudgery already. Need to sort my backup NAS at some point though.

Posted on: 19 November 2013 by hungryhalibut

Tim, I suspect that the ripper is not seeing the internet correctly. Have a look in the settings. Mine works fine after the upgrade, so something is definitely amiss.

Posted on: 19 November 2013 by DelR

HH, are you still after a copy of Aeriel?

Posted on: 19 November 2013 by hungryhalibut

It still won't work, so yes!!

Posted on: 19 November 2013 by DelR

HH, let me know the best way of getting my copy to you.

Posted on: 19 November 2013 by hungryhalibut

What a star you are. Send a mail to my forum name at gmail dot com.

Posted on: 19 November 2013 by Timbo

Hi HH:

 

Yes the unitiserve is seeing the internet. It reports a true internet access in system status and also I have no problem with internet radio.

 

Tim

Posted on: 19 November 2013 by hungryhalibut

In that case, send an email to Naim and get help. It really should work. I've had one CD come up as unknown recently, out of about 50 I've ripped since upgrading firmware. The UnitiServe finds AMG quite happily.

Posted on: 20 November 2013 by Timbo

Hi HH:

 

Sent an email to Naim quite a few times regarding several problems including this one. Have got a couple of replies on some but not all, which is disappointing!

 

The Cds ripped before the 1.7a update always had quite a bit of info in the AMG log within the folder on the NAS coupled with a CDDB info log report, that's when the unitiserve looked at the AMG database first. Now in later rips after 1.7a the AMG log file has one line in it "AMG report log generated by CDLookupWrapperV2" plus date and time previously this log file would contain much more info.

 

Don't know what is going on and have updated to 1.7a several times on instructions from Naim but with no change. Add to this problems with up-time starting to count backwards after 24 days and network share dates being reported as 1753-01-01 we have a very unhappy machine, which in my opinion is not performing as it should do but according to Naim will not affect sound quality.

 

Suppose I'd better wait tip the next software update.

 

Tim

Posted on: 20 November 2013 by Jan-Erik Nordoen
Originally Posted by Timbo:
1753-01-01

A good trivia question : That's the default minimum date on SQL Server (the database management system) inside the DigiFi software. Not that that helps in understanding why it is defaulting. Has Phil logged in to your new machine to see what's up ?

Posted on: 20 November 2013 by Timbo

Hi JE:

 

No Phil hasn't but has resolved a few other issues. I'm hoping that he will have the time at some point to take a peek.

 

Tim

Posted on: 15 December 2013 by Dozey

Hurrah! Finished ripping my CDs. Final count was 1300 or so. Also purchased a 2TB Seagate NAS from Argos, and after 12 hours I am fully backed up. Only problem now is how to convert files to flac to play them on my girlfriend Denon system

Posted on: 15 December 2013 by Aleg
Originally Posted by Dozey:

Hurrah! Finished ripping my CDs. Final count was 1300 or so. Also purchased a 2TB Seagate NAS from Argos, and after 12 hours I am fully backed up. Only problem now is how to convert files to flac to play them on my girlfriend Denon system

DBPowerAmp music converter in batch mode and lot of time to let it do its business.

Posted on: 15 December 2013 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Dozey:

Hurrah! Finished ripping my CDs. Final count was 1300 or so. Also purchased a 2TB Seagate NAS from Argos, and after 12 hours I am fully backed up. Only problem now is how to convert files to flac to play them on my girlfriend Denon system

Where's 'The Swami' when you need him.......!

 

G

Posted on: 15 December 2013 by ChrisH

Congratulations Dozey!

Where are all the ripped CD's going now? The loft?

I got all mine stored in a cupboard after ripping, though the only time I open the storage box is to add some new ripped CD's.

Its a nice position to be in, especially once all back up solutions are in place.

Posted on: 15 December 2013 by Dozey

Thanks ChrisH. They are all in the 19 litre plastic boxes from staples and stacked in the basement for now. Will probably move them to the loft at some point.

 

I can now spend more time listening in the listening room rather than from the basement while feeding CDs into the machine!