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posted by moonroy     (01 January 2005 through 01 January 2010) Audiograbber and this forum has been around for a long time. Most questions have already been asked in some way. There are some that seem to keep popping up though. Please, please, please... use the search function, OK? Here are some of the answers to get you going. 1) Make sure you always have the latest version of Audiograbber. It is freeware and no serial is needed anymore. There won't be any support for older versions. 2) An ASPI-layer is needed in most cases to rip successfully. The most stable version is Adaptec 4.60 which is found in ForceASPI 1.7. Adaptec has released newer free versions of their ASPI-layer which also works for most people but if there is a problem please first try the older. The installprocedure is to first KILL the existing layer, REBOOT the PC, INSTALL the new layer and finally REBOOT once again. The ForceASPI package is not hosted on the Audiograbber website but it is easy to find if you google around a bit. 3) Audiograbber is not shipped with any MP3 encoder. In order to create MP3's, you need to have an encoder installed on your system. The probably best encoder is found at http://mitiok.cjb.net/ and is free to download. Just unzip the files in the same folder as Audiograbber. If you want to get a quick start use the internal encoder method. For more advanced encoding, use the external method. 4) Audiograbber stores the files in its own folder which is c:/audiograbber as default. You can change that in the general settings. 5) The fastest rip method is not always the best. Most secure is to rip using dynamic sync rip method. Note the checksum after a rip. If you rip the track once again and it comes up with the same checksum, then you have a true copy. If not, something failed. 6) Not all drives can actually rip 100% perfect. Hardware is important. If you have problems ripping, please try with another reader on another machine. 7) The disc you want to rip may be copy protected. In some countries it is not legal to try to copy such discs. If you feel a bit like an outlaw you can try the special method found in the Audiograbber menu "CD / Problems with the track list?". Again, hardware is everything. If not all drives can rip, even fewer can rip protected discs. One of the forum moderators, Tomb, has set up a site with some great information. Please visit it and study it carefully: http://www.ripping.v33.org/

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