Thanks for all the replies so far.
Allowing cdplayer.ini to be rebuilt worked, for a while. I've carried on trying to import CDs now, on and off, for many days and have almost completed the task. What seems the most reliable way of working for me is:
- Rip a CD and (auto-)eject it
- With the focus in MM5 refresh the listing (F5)
- Leave the focus on MM5 until it's retrieved the next set of metadata and begun the rip
This isn't fool-proof but is working more often than not.
I suspect there are two things going on. First, musicbrainz sometimes fails to return a result even though it has the data. Sometimes trying the same disk later works when it failed earlier. Maybe MM or musicbrainz times out? (as an aside, if more than one match is detected then a screen is displayed asking which match to use (usually regional versions of otherwise identical disks). By this time MM has already displayed the popup matching the tracks on the CD with the proposed tracks on disk, meaning that unless you cancel and restart the rip you get a bunch of unknown CDs).
I think a bigger problem is Windows 11. I often find that Explorer windows don't refresh when the content of the things it's displaying alters. Maybe MM is sometimes simply unaware that a new CD has been inserted because Windows hasn't told it?
BTW, I've had occasions when the CD drive in the folders tree in MM seems to be seeing a different disk than MM does when I try to retrieve metadata or rip.
Thanks for all the replies so far.
Allowing cdplayer.ini to be rebuilt worked, for a while. I've carried on trying to import CDs now, on and off, for many days and have almost completed the task. What seems the most reliable way of working for me is:
[list=]Rip a CD and (auto-)eject it[/list]
[list=]With the focus in MM5 refresh the listing (F5)[/list]
[list]Insert the next CD[/list]
[list=]Leave the focus on MM5 until it's retrieved the next set of metadata and begun the rip[/list]
This isn't fool-proof but is working more often than not.
I suspect there are two things going on. First, musicbrainz sometimes fails to return a result even though it has the data. Sometimes trying the same disk later works when it failed earlier. Maybe MM or musicbrainz times out? (as an aside, if more than one match is detected then a screen is displayed asking which match to use (usually regional versions of otherwise identical disks). By this time MM has already displayed the popup matching the tracks on the CD with the proposed tracks on disk, meaning that unless you cancel and restart the rip you get a bunch of unknown CDs).
I think a bigger problem is Windows 11. I often find that Explorer windows don't refresh when the content of the things it's displaying alters. Maybe MM is sometimes simply unaware that a new CD has been inserted because Windows hasn't told it?
BTW, I've had occasions when the CD drive in the folders tree in MM seems to be seeing a different disk than MM does when I try to retrieve metadata or rip.
