Das Rheingold
CD down-load, malfunction peculiarity: can you explain it? Appreciate any resolution suggestions?
Disk-deframentation shows FREE SPACE 58%. So I don’t think the problem is a lack of sufficent memory.
Have Microsoft 2000 XP Home Edition: use Windows Media for music library, to which I down-load CDs.
Malfunction/peculiarity: of a 3-CD set, can successfully down-load one; but when down-load the second, the first disappears: down-load the third, the second disappears?
Item(s) in question: recording of “Das Rheingold”, originally the first “stereo-recording” made back in the early 1950′s I believe: by Solti and Vienna Phil. It was later transferred to CD’s by Decca-1981-84.
Ultimately, the complete “Ring” was recorded by same ensemble.
Have previously, a year or two before, down-loaded 4-CDs of the last opera of the “Ring”-”Die Gotterdammerung” without incident.
Does anyone have an idea as to what is causing this problem? Any explanations or recommendations for a solution, would be greatly appreciated.
You can verify the version of Windows, and free memory by going to the run menu and typing “winver” … you’ll get an about windows box. MS Windows version (XP is 5.1) , Build Number, Service Pack level, and most importantly Physical Memory Available to Windows. If you’re low on RAM, you might have problems burning CDs or Ripping Files because the computer has to do too much paging (moving things in and out of memory to temporary storage on disk) … If it’s low close some applications and/or remove some applications from the Startup Group in Program Files.
58% free space is fine, I’ll assume that you’ve defragged the disk so that the OS can write contiguous blocks of data for temporary storage.
The question is, what are you trying to do exactly? Are you making copies of the CDs for use in your car (that’s 90% of what I do; I don’t want the originals melting during the summer) then it’s most likely a buffer under run error … where the computer isn’t filling the write buffer quick enough. A newer version or patch of your CD writing software can usually correct that error.
Are you ripping the CDs for your MP3 library? (either for use on the computer or an iPOD/MP3 Player) I don’t do much of that yet, but my guess is that it is in the way titles are handled. Like others have said, the naming convention probably confuses the OS thinking it’s writing the same files again. You could try prepending the titiles with “CD1″ or “1 of 3″ or removing the leading info “Das Rheingold” and using just the track titles. I’m not sure how you would go about doing that. Perhaps it would be easier to copy the CD tracks to three separate subdirectories.
Das Rheingold, (Sir Georg Solti/Vienna Philharmonic) has been reissued again by London/Decca (ASIN: B0000042H5) as a two CD set. Actually, the complete ring cycle (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung) have been reissued as individual operas and as a complete box set (ASIN: B0000042H4). But that’s neither here nor there.
Best of luck with the project.
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Das Rheingold Act 1: Prelude-Part I