Sonos, dbPoweramp and iTunes - Help!

[gareth133]

Hi

For years, I have been running iTunes to convert CDs onto my iPod. As it was for an iPod and space was limited, I kept it at the default rip coding which I know is heavily compressed, however it was fine for an iPod and headphones.

I have now connected a Sonos system to my hi-fi and am ripping all of my CDs to a NAS drive in FLAC using dbPoweramp. Everything appears to be going well with the exception of one annoying thing. When I place a CD in the drive to be ripped by dbPoweramp, iTunes opens itself up and makes a nuisance of itself, attempting to get in on the ripping action. I shut it down quickly and it hasn't caused any problems but it is annoying.

I still use iTunes for ripping CDs into my iPod but I don't need or want it for ripping my FLAC files. How do I stop it opening when using dbPoweramp?

Please help before I lose my temper!!!!

Gareth

 

[Dave_]

Sounds like iTunes is set as your default media player, and/or Autoplay is set to use iTunes. What OS are you using?

 

[gareth133]

Windows Vista.

 

[michael hoy]

open dBpoweramp

Click options

scroll down to the bottom of the open window

2nd option from the bottom

Prevent auto-run on all CD drives

This stopped all programs opening when the CD was inserted on my laptop.

Might be worth a try for you.

 

[Anonymous]

Click Start, then click where it says 'search programs and files' and type 'autoplay' - and the autoplay menu comes up to allow you to change your default actions.

 

[michael hoy]

Click Start, then click where it says 'search programs and files' and type 'autoplay' - and the autoplay menu comes up to allow you to change your default actions.

The OP may not want to turn it of for other things, the way I described only stops it when dBpoweramp is operational.

 

[BillDay66]

Why not set DB poweramp as the default program to rip cds as described above and then use the multiple encoding option to rip a FLAC and whatever you want for your ipod at the same time?

Or...

Use itunes or poweramp to rip your cds to ALAC (apple version of FLAC - lossless and works with Sonos) for your itunes library and just tick the 'compress large files to AAC 128' option when syncing your ipod?

Not strictly what was asked I know, just a different way of looking at it.