Zen V Won't Rip Audio

Everytime I try to 'rip audio CDs' it says 'Unable to load the database component. The program will now exit.'?Why?

Also, how do you rename an album/track?

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Hey I just bought i creative ZEN micro about a month ago and started ripping a bunch of my CD's to it. Any ways, after awhile i started to notice that some of the songs that were supposed to be on there from that CD were not anywhere on the MP3 player or anything. So i figured i guess it just didn't copy that one song and messed up or something because it ripped all the other songs from the CD. So i go back to try to rip that one song again and it will not rip it no matter what i do.
It happens on CD's every once and a while and i can't find a reason why. I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem before and if they got it fixed through a firmware update (I haven't gotten that yet) or if it was a player problem and had to send the whole thing back to creative and get a new one. From what I can tell it seems like it isn't the player, but i don't know. I'm really just clueless on what to do next because if I can't rip all my songs this seems like a waste to me. I just hope it turns out to be an easy fix lol.
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yes that is what i am using. If it makes a difference the one song i'm trying right now that doens't work is the song ocean from the cold cd "a different kind of pain" It acts like its ripping it but when it gets to the end it seems like its done and i check the player but it hasn't been added.

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My dv5-1160us can't successfully rip audio. Should I try updating BIOS?

When i try to rip audio tracks from my notebook's CD drive, sometimes it DOES rip, but the result is glitchy or distorted. Other times the result is completely unplayable files. Other times, it won't even start ripping and just spins the disc in the drive forever.
I took the computer to Best Buy hoping they could fix it, but they scanned it and said the drive seemed okay. The guy told me i should try updating the system BIOS.
That doesn't sound like good advice to me... My computer DOES recognize its drive, so why go through the hassle and risk of updating BIOS? How would that even possibly help?
It seems like it might be simpler to just replace the CD drive.
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Hi marcdamien:
Thank you for your inquiry.
Ripping audio is a fairly CPU intensive process. When you are listening to a CD, the computer is just reading the data from the CD. When you are ripping the CD, it needs to read the data, convert the format to mp3, and write it out to disk. Some programs are better at doing this then others.
You can try a couple of things to assist.
1. Shut down all other programs, and avoid using the notebook while you are ripping the cd.
2. Try a different program.
I hope this helps.
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SyberCat,
Where did you get the WMA files it won't transfer? Did you purchase them, or are they from a subscription service? Or did you rip these yourself? If you did rip them yourself, make sure you didn't rip them with DRM-protection enabled.
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When i try to rip audio tracks from my notebook's CD drive, sometimes it DOES rip, but the result is glitchy or distorted. Other times the result is completely unplayable files. Other times, it won't even start ripping and just spins the disc in the drive forever.
I took the computer to Best Buy hoping they could fix it, but they scanned it and said the drive seemed okay. The guy told me i should try updating the system BIOS.
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It seems like it might be simpler to just replace the CD drive.
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Hi,
Which software are you using ? Please try the first software of the following link:
http://download.cnet.com/windows/focussoft/3260-20_4-81222.html?tag=rb_content;contentBody
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I found a nice and simple piece of software from www.imtoo.com which can rip the audio out of a DVD and save it as an audio file for import to iPod. For a whole bunhc of reasons I'd rather have just the audio from films and comedy shows than the whole video.
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I am not aware of any tool for the Mac that can rip audio from a DVD-A (audio only) disk.
I am also not aware of any 1 step tool for ripping the audio from ordinary DVD video disks.
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My 24" iMac won't read audio cds--ejects them after about 15 seconds

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One way to figure out if you're in such case is to use one of the many administration tools available to you. Open Terminal (or a X11 xterm) and type 'top' (without quotes).
Check the last line of the header for the "pageouts" indicator. If the number in parenthesis is not zero (0), repeatedly, it means that your kernel is swapping memory block from the physical RAM to the virtual RAM stored on the hard drive (swapping).
Hit 'q' to quit top. You can also try 'top -o cpu'. This will get you which process is currently running requesting the most CPU resources. Normally, on a Unix system, if one process needs CPU and is mostly the only one at the moment asking for CPU, it can be allocated most of the available CPU time and jumps to over 80%. If you consider this "abnormal", just look at the "Load Avg." indicator. It tells you how many processes are "waiting" for their turn to access the CPU - it's averaged throughout the time, through 3 numbers. Remember the "good will" mechanism. If it remains low (up to 3, for a household Mac), then, do not worry. If it goes above, then try to quit some other user applications. An idle system reports numbers below 1.
These few sysadmin tips will tell you a lot about your system's health. Perhaps, you'll figure out by yourself what's wrong. For sure, not iDVD
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T.

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I cannot play or rip audio CDs using iTunes on Windows 8. iTunes does not show any errors. It recognizes that I've put in an audio CD with tracks (and, in fact, matched the tracks in the iTunes database). When I click the Play button, it just skips from one song to the next.
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