Fingers crossed.ĭBpoweramp does indeed support ripping to ALAC, its ALAC encoder is based on David Hammerton's reverse engineering of the codec dating back to 2005* and his open-source decoder (see here for details). This might, just might, solve your problem. Reinstall MM cleanly using, if possible, the latest version downloaded directly from the MM website.If it is not associated with anything use 'Change Program.' to associate it with something, e.g. Check that WAV files are associated with a program by going into Control Panel/Default Programs/Associate a File or Protocol with a Program and looking at.Run it and remove MM using the "Advanced" setting to ensure a completely clean uninstall.Download and install Revo Uninstaller (this is a very useful utility to have anyway and it's free).Try the following (should be no risk of any data deletion here): It is furthermore faintly possible (albeit unlikely) that this resulted in your OS no longer being able to 'see' WAV files. It is just possible that MM somehow got screwed up (for instance, maybe the update script was buggy) and as a result CClean ended up inadvertantly removing some registry keys it thought were orphaned but were actually still in use. I am wondering if some interaction between MM and CC is causing your problem. There isn't much downside, at worst you will only waste a bit of time and your system will get a bit of a spring clean. I don't want to get into trying to diagnose your problem because I am not familiar with either MediaMonkey or CClean, however there is one slightly far-fetched but possible explanation I can think of that you should be able to isolate/fix pretty easily. Thanks for the software recommendation.I have not given up n what I own but am close. If this is the future of audio, I will live in the past. I have had to remove and reload this program 3 times so far to get it to work and I live in fear of other incompatibility issues. I have reported my problems to their tech support with no results.īottom line, the program is problematic and tech support assumes a level of PC skill I do not have. If I use Media Monkey as originally loaded, I can rip CD's.if I let it update, this capability goes away. So, now I know not to use that program.OK, next we get the update problem. MY problem is that this software is not supposed to remove permanent files and a registry clean up should not effect either files nor Media Monkey, but is does. Media Monkey seems to be a nice program that does what I want BUT, I keep having normal computer program problems with this software.I do not doubt that CCleaner might have been a cause of my Library disappearing. I looked around for a reliable software designed to do this. That said, the audio press is pushing this new front end almost as the second coming and has been hearkening the near death of CD's for a long while so I thought I would dip my toe into the water and try something that is supposed to be simple.rip some of my CD's in a lossless format to my PC and then to an iPOD. In my experience it has always been tinny MP3 sound through crappy desktop speakers. I claim absolute ignorance of playing music from a computer. There is a free version and if you like it you can pay $36 to get the 'Reference' version which has all kinds of nice little finesses, like using both cores of a dual-core CPU.Īs well as the error concealment of the drive itself (it allows the setting of individual drive offsets which not many programs support) it uses AccurateRip which compares the CRCs of your rip to others of the same CD to provide statistical confidence you have a bit-perfect rip.Īll-in-all a nice program which supports just about every file format going. I use it for all ripping (from CD-to-computer is called 'ripping', 'burning' is the opposite, i.e creating a CD from audio files) duties ever since I swore off iTunes about a year ago. If they disappeared after a registry/trash clean why do you suspect MM is the culprit rather than the CClean utility?įrom personal experience I can recommend dBpoweramp, which does what you want and does it well and pretty easily. WAV is an open file format, not proprietary to MM so your WAVs should just sit in folders on your hard drive like any other files. No experience with MediaMonkey unfortunately but I don't quite follow your logic here.
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