jwc Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Rudy. Set me straight on something. I see that you have mentioned two software programs. J. River Media Center dbPoweramp What are you doing with each one. I am interested in ripping with lossless flac too. Does the software have a good "library" interface? I'm hafl way using iTunes and started doing this ripping stuff. I don't want to be locked into using apple stuff. This is a PC with an Audigy 2 sound card with the optical out adapter. jc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 JC. dbPoweramp is not just a ripper, but also a format converter, so I ripped to .flac and can convert to just about any other format. The beauty of both these pieces of software is the 30 day free trial. In my case, dbpoweramp ripped my files to .flac, downloaded the cover art and put them in the correct artist folder. The interface is totally customizable and worked very well. I was very pleased with the ease of use for a newbie. I used JRMC since it has a 30 day trial and there is quite a bit of support for it in the AVSforum and the JRMC site itself. It was a learning curve to get things to work, but after reading many posts it all works great. You can download this stuff here: http://www.jrmediacenter.com/ and here http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dbpoweramp-reference.htm I too am using an optical interface from the HTPC to my Parasound HALO processor. I can now send lossless CD audio, DVD AC3, DVD dts, and DVD dts-es to my processor and it sounds fantastic. I have done A/B listening tests between my new HTPC and my Denon DVD player and cannot tell any differance. The differance is that on the pc I can access any song at any time without having to load individual discs. Other features, which I have yet to explore is JRMC playlists and the ability to have lyrics stored along with the songs. Pretty neat if you ask me. I had originally looked at the Sony high end multi-disk player, but for the money, this HTPC beats it hands down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwc Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 OK. Downloaded both. The dbPoweramp is easy. I ripped to flac. How do you play Flac? Do you have to convert to something else. The jr media wouldn't recognize a flac file....and I couldn't get the dbpoweramp audioplayer to recognize it either. jc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 JC: Both programs need a flac encoder or decoder to plugin. Look here and here: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-flac.htm and here http://accessories.jrmediacenter.com/mediacenter/accessories.php I have not used dbpoweramp to play anything since I have not taken the time to set it up to play lossless audio. I have set up JRMC and Foobar to play lossless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwc Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 This is the second night I have tried to PLAY Flac files and I can't get it to work. I can rip but neither of the above mentioned programs wil play the Flac even after putting in all those plugins. Does anyone have some software that will rip a CD into FLAC and play it ...."out of the Box". Sorry Rudy....I just can't get it to work. jc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian_Dude Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 If you go to Winamps website(www.winamp.com) you can find a couple of plug-ins for flac files. I have a friend who uses Winamp for his flac files so it should be easy to get Winamp to play them. Also make sure that in your option you have the maximum ripping speed set to max(might only be in pro version). I couldn't figure out why before I could only rip at like 6x... I changed that and it let me rip at like 24x(maximum for my drive). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted June 23, 2007 Author Share Posted June 23, 2007 Sorry for the trouble. I did not do anything other than add the plugin and it worked. I will look at my setup and see if anything else rings a bell. I worked for a long time to get things to work since I am new at this HTPC stuff. Keep at it, you will figure it out. You might also look through the JRMC forum or ask for help there. http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy81 Posted June 23, 2007 Author Share Posted June 23, 2007 JC...Are you using ASIO in your JRMC settings? If so, you do have ASIO4All or some other ASIO converter don't you? In my case, since I wanted bit perfect audio (the whole purpose of doing this) I use the SPDIF optical output from my second audio card. My mother board audio card is the default. If you use just one audio card and windows makes any sound at all, the kmixer will interrupt and stop what you are trying to do since both sounds are trying to use the same audio device. In my case I have the Chaintech AV-710 ($27) for my second and dedicated audio card. I set up ASIO4ALL to use the second card output and set up JRMC to use ASIO. To be honest, I don't know if any of this has anything to do with your problem, but I set this up this way after reading many articles on lossless bit perfect playback. I do know that if you don't turn off all of windows sounds and you are attempting to play music in bit perfect mode, it will not work if windows accesses the sound hardware. You may want to read some of these:http://archive.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=39405eb958462ba38dccaeb3ccaa1eab&threadid=247101&highlight=asio http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/faq-emporium/88852-faq-what-bit-perfect.html http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_tasks.html http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1313447 http://www.asio4all.com/ Maybe some of this will help. Hopefully you will have time to research this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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