willyhoops;195795 Wrote: > mgh: > > my experience of dbpoweramp is the same as yours. it can lock the > machine to the extent you reach for the power socket. i see others on > the web report the same thing. i have a golden rule using it - do > absolutely nothing else while it runs and reboot after finishing your > ripping session. its got other bugs as well where it sometimes can't > read the last track which is a real pain. > > nevertheless, despite all these problems i personally find it's speed > advantage and album art advantage enough of a reason to stick with it. > > > by the way - apple lossless is no good for your squeezebox. you should > use flac and convert to apple lossless or aac 256kbps when you want to > play stuff on your ipod. becuase squeezebox does not speak aac, wma or > apple lossless, these formats have to be converted on your machine > before transmission increasing cpu load. there is of course no > difference between flac and other lossless formats - they all produce > sound identical to the original. the compression ratio and cpu load do > differ a bit but it's not that much of a bid deal.
The latest dbpoweramp (R12) has been running very solidly for me and I run other programs while running it. I did have problems with previous versions crashing on long file names and long tags. It would also lock up my machine when I used an SATA CD drive, I never really looked into it, I just switched back to an IDE drive. I woudl be able to rip a few discs with the SATA drive and then it would lock up my computer requiring a reboot. I haven't tried the new version with the SATA CD drive since all is well with the IDE one. -- fred7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fred7's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6523 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34232 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
