Db Power Amp - is there a better ripper out there?

Wildoats - it would appear that WMP does a very good job of ripping WAV
- I ripped one of my more detailed albums to WAV and I could not tell any difference between that and the same album ripped to AIF using dbPoweramp
- FYI both rips were performed on the same computer and then loaded into iTunes.

However - the one nice thing about dbPoweramp is, it notifies you when ripping problems occur and the severity of the problem by track.

I'm not sure if that feature is available with WMP.

Regards...

wmp does fine for .wav. Used it for years before switching to FLAC and DBPamp for more flexibility with tagging, which adds a lot to the overall experience. I converted all my old .wav files to FLAC and my library is very clean now.

The only problem (avoidable) I had at first with windows media player was when it was set to start ripping automatically and it did so prior to having the metadata for the tagging ready resulting in many track 1s with missing "tags". Live and learn. Even when done right with .wav at rip time, the tagging capabilities of .wav are inherently much inferior to FLAC done well.

Mapman and Zd542,

Thank you for your assistance. I have tried every suggestion you made and nothing helped. There are no errors shown when I rip. I tried ripping to FLAC, no relp. I tried different destinations. No help. I tunes was off. No help. I am stumped. I will go on dbPoweramp forum and see if they have any ideas. I do not want to delete and re-order, because it has worked without a hiccup for years.

Thanks again.

Neal

Nglazer - did you find a solution?

I took a quick look and found various other similar issues pertaining to a "0" file size.

Responses to questions cited issues relating to
- bugs in WMA related software drivers
- certain file types
- the CD drive hardware
- using a USB drive to rip to
- the level of error checking selected

One post on the dbPoweramp forum seemed to indicated that the file was actually complete and could be played, it was just an anomomally that the file size was set to zero - and there was no way of resetting the size to it's actual size.

Unfortunately there did not appear to be any one difinitive solution.

I've only used CD Ripper - without any issue

Did the issue occur using dbPoweramp CD Ripper, Batch Converter or both?

Regards

My solution ($29 for uop tp 5 computers if you own a previous version) was to upgrade to the current version of dbPoweramp, and the problem disappeared. Now the size of the files ripped shows up in Properties and all works well.

Who knows what the problem was. Had it for years and it worked flawlessly, then stopped. $29 eliminated much gnashing of teeth. Cheaper than therapy!

Thanks, all.

Neal