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Hoorah .... praise to NCH .... this is fixed and works correctly in ver 1.52 There was no firewall issue, whatever was wrong has been fixed - well done.

I have downloaded a DVD using BitTorrent .... the files are a number of VOB, IFO & BUP files. If I open the folder with Windows Media Player and click on any file the film plays OK. However I would like to create a playable DVD for use on standalone DVD player.# I opened Express Burn ... and selected Video DVD When I dragged across the files .. I got a pop up warning window ... "This file appears to be for a pre-authored Vidoie DVD. Adding to a Video DVD will re-author the disk and lose all menus, and possible re-encode teh movie. You can burn these as authored using a Data DVD with the ISO/Joliet Filesystem. To wish to re-author or burn as-is" Assume last bit is a typo and it should be 'Do you wish " I hit cancel and did as they suggest and used data DVD ... however the disc created will not 'auto play' and standalone players state 'unsupported' As before files will play if opened from within WMP on a PC. When I gragged files to Express burn ... as mentioned I slected 'cancel' the other option was 're-author' or 'burn as author' Hope somebody can help ...I am creating a lot of coasters at present. How do I turn the files I have into a playable DVD ??

This is still an issue ... I have tried other rippers and athey all get track details no problem (iTunes for example) ... but the success rate with NCH ripper is about 1 CD in 10. and that is with freeDB and muicbrainz. iTunes never fails .... ? The fact that it does work sometimes would suggest that my Firewall is not the culprit ... it seems more likley to be a bug in software.

I don't see how this is a problem with my Firewall ? .... if it was how come it works part time ? And works 100% of the time for Windows Media Player & iTunes .... it is only a problem with Express Rip ? The version I use is 1.48 many people on this forum report the same problem, we can't all have a firewall problem.

Interesting & worrying that NCH have not bothered to even answer this, it was also emailed directly to support - and again no answer. Anybody manage to get any support out of NCH ??

as it's a few months now, did you get any update ?

You really need to act on this. Look in this forum and there are loads of posts about same problem - and people are getting peeved. If I put in a CD to rip ... almost always reports 'operation failed when trying to access the FreeDB Internet server .. Please check you are connected to internet' Your FAQ even suggests connecting to www.freedb.org .... I do and get an instant connect no problem. If I try your alternate server (Musicbrains) the same thing .... this must be an NCH issue, if I fire up Windows Media Player or iTunes they find tracks details instantly. This appears to be an NCH issue - and you really do need to fix it, or people will use other products.

I have exactly the same problem .. most my CD's come back with FreeDB or Musibrains. Yet if I fire up Windows Media Player it always finds the track details ... maybe NCH ought to give us a few other server choices to pick from. The FAQ say try connecting to freedd.org web site, can do that with no problem.

I use switch to convert .ra files into MP3. I have a pretty fast PC .. and I notice that when Switch is running it does not use up much in the way of processing power ... dual core PC ... and performance shows CPU's are not running that high, typically less than 40%. RAM is also shown as only 30% Now to a numpty like me, I would have thought that if Switch used more processing cycles and more use of RAM then it could do it's task much quicker ? I don't think it can be disk write limits ... as I have a high speed RAID 0 disk array. Can you set it's priority, or tweak in any other way. I'm using v1.24 For example a conversion of a single .RA file - 36Mb (they are always this size) to MP3 VBR 384kb takes 17 minutes. The PC is a 2.4GHZ 6600Intel Core 2 with 2GB RAM, running VISTA Ultimate 32bit

I asked a Q on the Vista Forum ... had teh comment that I should isgone Real Player and instaed download free "Real Alterative" Raelalt152 I downloaded that, it works fine with Vista ... and with Switch. (only got about another 5 programmes to sort out with Viats now ..... switching PC's and this new OS has been a real pain)

I can't download it .. you can't download a file ... what you download is their 'download Manger' ... this opens but does not load anything ... Real Player advise it will not download a the player as it has detected the Vista Ultimate OS which is not supported. NCH ... what about supporting Switch on Windows Media Player - ver11 comes with the OS ??? I'm stuffed at the moment .. have a licensed ver of Switch and can't use it ...

It won't work ..... so yep I have issues :-) It installed & registered s/Ware OK ..... but when you try to load a file for conversion a pop up window appears advising that you have to have Real Player installed. I can't do that as RealPlayer does not exist for VISTA Ultimate. I have contacted Real Player support - and they confirm that at present no RealPlayer exists for Vista Ultimate platform. Is there a way around this - any other player than can be used ?

The version I have is Switch Plus v1.12

I have a purchsed ver of Switch (also use Slice) .. just taken delivery of a Vista machine (32 bit) ... any particular version I need to download ? .... do I need any patch or simialr to work with Vista ?

When you do a fix ... if you want a tester, let me know ... happy to help