

but there's the other elephant in the room, the copy protection on the majority of commercial DVD/BD discs. I think on Windows, JRiver Media Center relies on Windows' system components to playback DVD/BD discs (and playback ISOs). This was all done on an iMac with an external CD/DVD/BD drive, which has ripped many hundreds of CDs, DVDs, and BDs (with other tools). It's more manual (than my other tool) and requires just a bit of fiddling (clicking buttons multiple times, etc). Ideally it would show the ripping window with a message to "insert a CD" or similar.Īll the basic functionality is there. This could be improved, as this is only a symptom of there being no CD in the drive, as opposed to there being a major problem. If you press the Rip CD button (in the Action Window) before you insert a disc, you get a cryptic message informing you that "ripping is unavailable". Ripping seems to work fine about the same speed (give or take) as XLD. If you press "lookup from online database" it gets the metadata just fine. It does not seem to look up metadata automatically.

If you then press "details" it sometimes shows the tracks then. But in the lower left dialog it shows "11 tracks" (or however many there are). It's a little awkward, as sometimes no tracks show up. I've downloaded and installed MC 26.0.82 for Mac and have ripped 2 CDs with it.
