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FWIW, my CD/DVD drive started to take a lot more time ripping with dBpoweramp and it was producing errors. I replaced it with a new Samsung SH-224DB drive and now my rips are much faster (sometimes 4x faster or more) and, to date, I have experienced no errors. My previous drive was presumably approaching the end of its life after several years of use.

 

I use a Samsung, as well an older SE-506 portable BD 2014 build, with just the one short USB cable, so the power is derived from the computer. This drive is used when CDs are bought ad-hoc only. It works; some second hand CDs are iffy at times to read, the only problem come across. dbpoweramp reports the ripping speed as ~ 3x with secure mode.

 

On a HP Z800 Workstation type PC, with Pioneer BD drives BDR-208D , no secure mode is 30x for those larger jobs and 3 x for secure mode.

 

With CD ripping, the location of the saved files is difficult to master for classical recordings, easier for pop/rock and just about any other genre. I tend to rip classical under the standard pop/rock title ARTIST\YEAR-ALBUM\DISC-TRACK ARTIST TITLE, then move the album to the composer folder. dbpoweramp has a profile where you can save preferences like the location and type of rip, you could have a saved location such as COMPOSER\ARTIST\YEAR-ALBUM\DISC-TRACK TITLE. Classical tends to have a cast of thousands in the artist field, and when the path length approaches the 127 character limit for Windows, it creates more problems.

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