DrSiddons Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 I'm having an intermittant problem when I'm using SimpleBurner. Occassionally, with no predictable pattern, a track will be filled with loud clicks and distortions. The software looks like it has processed the track successfully. But these distortions show up during playback. Anyone else having this problem. It does not matter whether I use Hi-SP, Hi-LP, etc. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 Reason one: The CD is scratched, warped and/or dirty. Reason two: The CD is copyprotected. Some CDs install a driver file, that interferes with the ripping process. Reason three: The CD is a CD-R copy and the blank used is of low quality. I have a few copies on BASF blanks and these are getting bad. Reason four: Your CD-ROM drive is of lower quality and/or has buggy firmware. Reason five: Background processes interfere with the ripping process by demanding high amounts of processing power for a short time. If it happens only with a few CDs, I suggest using a different software for ripping and then importing the resulting wave files into SonicStage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Welcome to the forums, btw. :happy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latexxx Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 Reason six: You are copying RHCP or Andrew W.K. whose tracks are recorded so loud that your player or headphones will clip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSiddons Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 This response is to jadeclaw: #1: The CDs are new & clean. #2: I couldn't say about this one. If this were true, I would have expected all files to be effected. #3: The CDs are all originals. #4: The CD-ROM is what came with my DELL Latitude CPi. I've been using SimpleBurner exclusively simply because I haven't wanted to clutter my hard drive with music files. I'll try using SonicStage on the files that have the distortions. To Latexxx: Who the heck is "RHCP" or Andrew W.K."? However, no, I'm recording Murray Perahia playing the Bach Keyboard Concertos which will hardly overdrive my headphones. The clicks and distortions, however, do rattle my teeth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 It sounds to me as though your CD drive is losing sync during rips. SonicStage and Simple Burner [which both use the same libraries for ripping] do not use the most accurate ripping methods available, and thereby depend almost completely on the quality of your drive and the discs being copied. I'm with Jadeclaw on this: try ripping using software that is relatively assured to make accurate copies, i.e. Exact Audio Copy [www.exactaudiocopy.de], then converting the resulting WAV files using SonicStage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Reason seven: You are in Dell-Hell... :grin: Seriously, you can do two things: First, when you pull out the drawer od the CD-drive, if the lens is visible as well, you can clean it very carefully. Second, in SonicStage under 'Tools' --> 'Options' then click on 'CD recording' then under 'CD reading settings' mark 'Use smoothing when reading the CD'. In that case, SonicStage tries to correct reading errors, but of course, it takes longer. Since I've never worked with SimpleBurner, I'm not sure, if it has this option as well. If everything fails, using a different software for ripping might be advisable. A ton of these can be found here: http://www.dailymp3.com/cdrippers.html Personally, I'm using CD-DA X-Tractor, which served me very well even with moderately scratched CDs ( http://xtractor.sourceforge.net/, others reported good experiences with Exact Audio Copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSiddons Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Ooooooookkkkkkkkk......... First: I'll clean (carefully) the CD-ROM lens. Second: I'll give SonicStage a try. Anyone out there having similar experience with SimpleBurner? Dr. Siddons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSiddons Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 And finally - to all of you - thank you very much for responding! Kevin Siddons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 I've had both Simple Burner [which I used only once and ditched because it can't do accurate rips] -and- SS have trouble doing rips. Sony, as with many other companies [Microsoft, etc.] wrote their ripping module with speed in mind, not accuracy. Using the 'interpolation' option in SS does help some but there are a few CDs I've found in my collection that SS simply can't cope with because of what I view as flawed programming. EAC rips anything I throw at it [with the exception of totally bit-rotted CDs or those that are so scratched that you can't see through the substrate at all any more] perfectly without any complaints - and normally does so no slower than SS or SB, interestingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSiddons Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 To dex Otaku - What is EAC? Does this convert to ATRAC3+ HI-SP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 EAC: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSiddons Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Alright. I'm downloading ExactAudioCopy. What is the procedure? Do I copy the cd with this software and then use SimpleBurner on the copy? DrS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwakrz Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Run EAC For best results use the secure mode of copying (found under drive options) and make an image file (it says cue & image on the button). When you have an image, use daemon tools to mount the image as a CD drive & SB to rip that to the minidisc. As you are using an image and not a physical CD it does not suffer the same problems with keeping sync on the disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSiddons Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Thank you, Qwakrz. I will give this a try tonight. Dr. S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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