I loved the standard A6 in my system and one of the primary reasons for the purchase was to rip my 600+ CDs to a 2TB SSD. The ripping app was so buggy - it would rip 3 or 4 discs fine, then it wouldn't rip. It would give me a "restart?" message but wouldn't restart. Sometimes, it would load the CD and I'd see the album art and track list but then, when I tried to begin ripping, it would show "no cd" with a blank screen. The worst was when it wouldn't recognize a disc at all - just "no cd" even though the disc was spinning in the drive.
I tried the cd drive with my Mac Mini to ensure that wasn't the issue. I ripped a few CDs with XLD and it worked fine.
I loved everything else about the streamer and I didn't want to return it - it just got to be too frustrating.