Since Microsoft ended support for CDDB or whatever service downloads the metadata for CDs, I can’t use the Media Player to rip CDs anymore. Too bad because it was simple and effective.
Rather than look for alternatives, I’m using Wavelab Pro 12, but it is a bit of a pain. For starters, if you don’t manually change the file name to track number and song name, it will create the files with just the song name, so they will be in the wrong order. Is there no way to have it name the file with the track number by default?
Also, it doesn’t create the folder with the artist, then a subfolder with the album name, and puts the files in it, it just puts the files at the folder you specify. So I have to manually create those folders, then move the files, delete the extra file types that Wavelab creates.
And the last problem is that it rips all the files but also opens them in Wavelab, and when it’s done ripping the last track, it starts playing it, which gets really confusing when I’m listening to music on my receiver and the last song in the CD starts playing from the studio monitors.
Is there a way to make it work more like a usual CD ripper? I know Wavelab is not a music player, but with this stupid fad of killing optical formats, the options narrow. Besides, I like the error correction capabilities in Wavelab.
