Re: Workaround for ripping bad track?
- From: "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:15:18 GMT
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:04:01 -0700, Chistaya
<Chistaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently bought a new CD that was pressed outside the US, and one of the
tracks has an error (stutter) on it. The error was obvious when I tried to
play the CD on two audio devices (discman, boombox), but it played fine
through the computer with WMP10. I thought that since WMP had the error
correction to play the track properly, I could rip it and make a new
(improved, duplicate) CD, but when I tried, the error was even more
noticeable on the ripped copy. Depending on the settings when I ripped it,
the error would either be more prominent/frequent, or a complete gap in the
middle of the song.
I tried a few other audio ripping utilities (all generated the error) and I
even upgraded to WMP11, but now, I not only can't get the track to rip
cleanly, and the original CD won't play properly in WMP anymore either.
Does anyone have any ideas for what I can do to get a good copy of this
track? My CD drive won't support Analog mode, and turning on error
correction seems to make things worse, because then the track never finishes
ripping.
It will slow down yes. The WMP provided ripper is more a convenience
than bulletproof, and it's not guaranteed to be able to read a damaged
CD (come to think of it, nothing is, really !)
I'd urge you to try a couple of other products here, which are
specialised in ripping CDs. First is the free CDEx from
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=features
That has an Options -> Settings -> CD Drive tab. At the bottom of that
is a dropdown for "Ripping method", one setting there is "Paranoia"
which does multiple reads across a region, as well as the "Jitter
Settings" checkbox to try to stabilise variances in disk spin speed.
Also there is a retry count which can allow large numbers of disk
reads, and an option to Spin Up the drive before recording (which may
help to stabilise the drive spin speed and improve marginal first
track recovery)
Another tool available is Exact Audio Copy, which I haven't used, but
claims to have similar or better features.
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/overview/basic-technology/extraction-technology/
Some capabilities of EAC are available only on more recent CD drives,
and it may be worth trying a different PC or drive to rip the CD in
case the drives laser or transport is a bit iffy.
Finally, I remember seeing some products which claimed to smooth disk
surfaces and reduce scratch effects, possibly some sort of thin
plastic overlay on the disk, which may help in extreme situations.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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