[mythtv-users] CD ripping problem

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/03/2006 09:59 AM, Will Constable wrote:
>
> I am new to the whole CD ripping side of myth, but I figured I’d give 
> it a try last night and to my dismay it would just not cooperate. I 
> have a DVD-RW drive and a CD-RW drive, but the ‘import cd’ feature 
> only searches the cd-rw drive for a CD. When I put a CD in, it finds 
> the CDDB info, and when I say ‘import cd’, it just spins up and spins 
> down quickly, then ejects the disc. Dmesg says something like “cdrom: 
> unknown format” or something to that effect, however it happens with 
> many CDS and they all play fine elsewhere.
>

Note that, IIRC, MythMusic fails to rip CD's that contain "CD extra" 
data (i.e. contain both CD audio data and CD-ROM data for computers). 
Many (most?) CD's these days are built like this. For these, you can rip 
the CD manually and add it to MythMusic.

Mike