by trolleybus » Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:41 am
I'm trying to import my music collection into MM5 Gold 5.0.3.2627. It started well. Windows 11 asked me what the default action should be when a music CD is installed so I chose Rip with MediaMonkey. I successfully ripped many CDs to a external drive and then periodically moved then to my NAS using Auto-organize Files.
But progress is getting slower and slower. Auto-rip now rarely happens, even though I've checked the OS settings and it's still supposed to rip to MM. What happens now is I rip one CD, by manually choosing Tools/Rip Audio CD. It works. I repeat the process, and it may work again. But increasingly what happens is one of two things. Either the metadata hasn't been received, so the rip process wants to rip as an unknown album, or the track list for a previous CD appears. Sometimes repeatedly opening and closing the CD drive and/or manually refreshing Explorer (F5) helps, but it's getting worse and worse. As has been reported elsewhere you can't just close and restart MM under Win11 as some processes don't stop, and can't be stopped through Task Manager, so I need to restart to machine. Then I can import another one or two CDs before I have to repeat the process. My import has just about stalled.
One other minor issue: I'm ripping to a folder on the I:\ drive. Occasionally when trying to tag tracks MM complains that a file is missing. What's happened is that the track has been stored using the external drive's name rather than drive letter. So the path is, e.g. [nasbackups]\Mediamonkey\David Bowie ... instead of I:\Mediamonkey\David Bowie ... I need to manually correct the path before MM can tag or move the file.
I'm trying to import my music collection into MM5 Gold 5.0.3.2627. It started well. Windows 11 asked me what the default action should be when a music CD is installed so I chose Rip with MediaMonkey. I successfully ripped many CDs to a external drive and then periodically moved then to my NAS using Auto-organize Files.
But progress is getting slower and slower. Auto-rip now rarely happens, even though I've checked the OS settings and it's still supposed to rip to MM. What happens now is I rip one CD, by manually choosing Tools/Rip Audio CD. It works. I repeat the process, and it may work again. But increasingly what happens is one of two things. Either the metadata hasn't been received, so the rip process wants to rip as an unknown album, or the track list for a previous CD appears. Sometimes repeatedly opening and closing the CD drive and/or manually refreshing Explorer (F5) helps, but it's getting worse and worse. As has been reported elsewhere you can't just close and restart MM under Win11 as some processes don't stop, and can't be stopped through Task Manager, so I need to restart to machine. Then I can import another one or two CDs before I have to repeat the process. My import has just about stalled.
One other minor issue: I'm ripping to a folder on the I:\ drive. Occasionally when trying to tag tracks MM complains that a file is missing. What's happened is that the track has been stored using the external drive's name rather than drive letter. So the path is, e.g. [nasbackups]\Mediamonkey\David Bowie ... instead of I:\Mediamonkey\David Bowie ... I need to manually correct the path before MM can tag or move the file.