Thanks for your help! I apologize for being so long in responding, but I
only found your answer today (I was waiting for an email notification of
reply). It was the stimulus of your answer which led me to what I believe is
the solution, below. But I've begun with responses to your comments.
1. I'm using WMA (lossless).
2. I "Searched" the My Music folder and the containing external hard disk,
but none of the missing files showed up; nor were they revealed by the "Open
file location" command for the files which had ripped and remained. As it
turned out, they hadn't ripped.
3. All automatic metadata lookup had been disabled.
4. HOWEVER, I believe I've found the problem. If multiple tracks have
exactly the same title on the CD, only one track will copy to the Library.
For example, one of my Vivaldi CDs has 6 concertos; on the CD, several of
those concertos have tracks titled only, for example, "allegro". Only one
"allegro" (not necessarily the first) of the several would rip to the Library
and remain there. However, if I retitled the tracks -- eg., "allegro, 1" and
"allegro 2" and so on -- then all tracks ripped properly. A Brubeck CD had
two takes of "Camptown Races", each titled only "Camptown Races", and only
one of the two tracks would rip. I re-titled to "Camptown Races, 1" and
"Camptown Races, 1" and got both ripped. Several symphonies had each of
their tracks titled only "Symphony #3", for example, and only one track would
rip. Re-naming the tracks with some distsinguishing character got all tracks
properly ripped.
Can't trust what the jewel-case literature says about the track names!
Once again, many thanks for your help, and my apologies for the tardiness of
my reply.
bld
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bld
"Tim De Baets" wrote:
> What format are you ripping to (MP3, WMA or WAV)?
>
> It would surprise me if the tracks really were disappearing from the
> library. They are probably moved to another artist and/or album, due to
> WMP's automatic metadata lookup. Try to find the tracks at other
> locations in the library, possibly even under "Unknown Artist" (WMP's
> Folder view could come in handy for this).
>
> If you go to WMP's Options - Library, is "Overwrite all media
> information" ticked? You may want to set that to "Only add missing
> information" instead, or completely disable the metadata lookup.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Tim De Baets
> http://www.bm-productions.tk
>
> On 20/05/2010 15:09, bld wrote:
> > Using WMP11 in WindowsXP, SP3, on a Compaq Presario, I am attempting to rip
> > all my CDs to an external drive. After ripping many of them successfully,
> > some tracks from some CDs (not all) do not rip to the Library (or to the
> > computer location), although the Rip screen indicates that they have "ripped
> > to library". When such a CD is replaced for re-ripping, the missing tracks
> > are shown as missing in the Rip screen and re-ripped. But most often the
> > "re-ripped" tracks do not appear in the Library. When they do appear in the
> > Library, it is only momentarily and then they disappear (even as I watch!).
> > Very infrequently, a missing track will be re-ripped to the Library and
> > remain there in playable fashion (but in such cases, a previously present
> > track may disappear in compensation). Such a "missing-tracks" CD will rip
> > without problems to another computer (using WMP9). There seems to be no
> > pattern between CDs to which tracks are missing. Could it be that the
> > Compaq's drives are wearing out?
> >
> > I'm at my wit's end! Many thanks!
> .
>
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