Bob Harvie

Hi Haggis999 Thank you for the reply. I agree with you, which is why I tried in vain to use a fixed address. For some reason, (perhaps it timed out), it seemed that the pioneer disappeared from my network after a period of time when I tried the fixed address. I tried pinging it, it worked, then I tried to rip, and it didn't; I'd ping again, and found I had lost the connection. I found that by switching to Auto, I could locate the Pioneer on my network which had an IP address of 192.168.0.105 (I used ipscan 2.5 to determine this - which you can do as a portable app, rather than by installing it) Having got that address, I typed that into the Autoscript file and it worked. I'm now on day 2 of my ripping, and I it's ripping quite merrily as I type this message. That's after having shutdown my system last night and restarted this evening. I guess once the Auto IP address is set up, it sticks with that unless something changes. I imagine if I have to add something else to my network and the Pioneer wasn't on, that address may be taken by the new device and I'd have to start again. I have very little networking expertise so I don't know. I simply breathe a sigh of sigh relief when things work. I'm now on 10+ SACD's and it's working very nicely.

I just got a Pioneer BDP-170. I have struggled all night, forever getting the 'SACD_extract.exe has stopped working' message. It seems that by ensuring the IP Address in the Pioneer is set to Auto, fixed things for me. Also, I made sure to use the Autoscript folder specific for the Pioneer 160, and also the latest version of sacd_extract, which is 0.3.8. I'm pretty sure setting the IP address to auto was the fix that did it for me, but I mention the other things I did too. This might save someone an hour or two. I'm on my third disc now, all working well.

Hey guys, I'm exhausted reading through your article. I've used JRiver MediaCenter since version 10. Yes, it's good, but boy it needs a lot of care and maintenance, and they seem to expect people to pony up $20 or so every 6 or 7 months for some sort of semi upgrade.<br /> <br /> Have you ever heard of XMplay? Plug that into MP3Toys as an external player. Load up the WASAPI plug in, and hey presto, you can now spend the next several years listening to whatever you like in sublime bliss (unless your idea of fun is dicking around with unnecessarily complicated bits of software).<br /> <br /> Gotta go, I can feel some great sounds comin on!<br />

Why on earth would you want to rip your CD's to WAV? Sure it's lossless, but apart from that you will lose all ability to conveniently find your music again. If you're going to go to the hassle of ripping all of your CD's then please do so with a format which can retain all of the track/album data - trust me it will be well worthwhile. If you still want to use wav, then you can transcode any lossless format into 'lossless' wav and play those files to your hearts content. My guess is that your looking for convenience, but all the while wishing to maintain the original quality? If so go for an established lossless format. I use wma lossless and have done so for a number of years (yes I can hear the anti Microsoft scoffs, but I don't give two hoots about that) and it has worked very well for me. I have used both dbPoweramp and Windows Media Player to rip my files and can find very little difference other than that dbPoweramp seems better able to look up the correct metadata (tags). WAV? With the plethora of lossless formats about, I can see no benefit at all in using that as a format. Other software to consider: MP3Tag XMPlayer MP3Toys (with XMPlayer set as an external player), oh, and you must use Windows 7 with WASAPI