weird bladeenc behavior under ripperX and grip

[milanuk]

Alright folks, here it is:

I changed out my 48X cdrom for a 16-10-40X CDRW. Now, when I run grip, either w/ the grip version of cdparanoia, or regular cdparanoia selected, it just runs thru and makes a bunch of empty .wav files w/ the right names. Then bladeenc makes empty (128 byte) mp3's. If I use ripperX, it will make the .wav files ok, but still makes empty mp3's. Then, if I run bladeenc _manually_ from the CLI, it makes the mp3's just fine. What gives? Using RedHat 7.0, bladeenc 0.92.7, grip 2.95, ripperX 2.0, cdparanoia 0.9.7 or so.

TIA,

Monte

[Molecule Man]

Sounds like a configuration problem.

[milanuk]

Ok... I kinda had that much figured out already ;) I have perused the settings cdparanoia and bladeenc in both ripperX and grip, and they are the default parameters that come w/ the programs. The crazy part is that grip, at least, worked like a champ before this, and I fail to see what a cdrw drive would do to make cdparanoia quit working from grip, especially since it too works fine from the command line, and works fine in ripperX.

Alternately, I tried some of the scripts that are supposed to do basically the same thing, but they upchuck, griping about perl on my system. Grrr...

Monte

[Harry]

Make sure /dev/cdrom is linked to the proper device. Look in your dmesg to see where your cdrom is. It might be /dev/hdc. If so, type these commands as root:

rm /dev/cdrom

ln /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom