Rip and skip.

[The Diner]

How about ripping the offending track on another computer? If it rips ok, then burn it to a CDR and import the CDR track into your itunes.

I only have one computer, dude.

Anyway, importing it as an mp3 did the trick! Huzzah!

[Szykneij]

Anyway, importing it as an mp3 did the trick! Huzzah!

[drogulus]

     

I only have one computer, dude.

Anyway, importing it as an mp3 did the trick! Huzzah!

     What a horrible, horrible reply!

     What kind of CD burning dude relies on a laptop?

     Ripping to mp3 sounds like defeat to me. I would try every lossless format first before surrendering, then I would take Mr. T's advice and burn a replacement disc and back up all the lossless rips to an external drive. Don't bother backing up mp3s. You don't need one of them, never mind 2.

     

     

[The Diner]

     
     What a horrible, horrible reply!

     What kind of CD burning dude relies on a laptop?

     Ripping to mp3 sounds like defeat to me. I would try every lossless format first before surrendering, then I would take Mr. T's advice and burn a replacement disc and back up all the lossless rips to an external drive. Don't bother backing up mp3s. You don't need one of them, never mind 2.

Yeah, I've heard this all before. I don't bother with lossless. 

[drogulus]

Yeah, I've heard this all before. I don't bother with lossless. 

     I hadn't thought of that. Never mind.

[Renfield]

Re: the general skipping issue, it's definitely the interaction of a dodgily printed CD, your disc drive, and (as it seems) the format.

Throughout the years I've been ripping, there have been discs that skip in only one of three different drives, that don't skip in only one of three drives, and discs that skip in all drives I tested, yet still play just fine on the actual CD player. Though I rip everything in one format, so I'd never thought to try your solution!

[drogulus]

     
     I've had very good results with Lite On and Samsung drives. Look for reviews of models from these manufacturers. Some Lite On drives are sold as Plextor's. I'd do some research to find the good ones.

[drogulus]

     
     I had a DVD from a box set that I couldn't rip on my old desktop PC. My GFs laptop couldn't rip it. I tried making an ISO with another program, a semi-hopeless move since if you can't rip it how you gonna ISO it? I tried some other computer, no, no, no -- you paid for a 4 disc set you can't expect all 4 of them to be good, they'd have to charge more. Did the bad disc play flawlessly in a regular DVD player? Of course it did, for the quantum mechanical reason that I didn't require it to! Would it have played if I needed it to? I doubt it. Schrödinger said if you buy a litter box the cat is dead, if you don't it jumps out of the box shitting and pissing, a triumphal glint in its eye.

     

[Gurn Blanston]

Well, you all can take this solution and use it for what it is worth to you or you can say "holy shit, it's been decoded and recoded! Oh, the horror"!

When I get a disk that won't 'play' on my computer so I can rip it, but it does play on my DVD/CD player ('stereo' is adjacent to computer anyway), I take a pair of RCA cables and plug them into the "audio out" plugs on the stereo and plug the other end into the 'line in' on the sound card of the computer and just rip the stream. It works perfectly, you could never tell it has been decoded and recoded. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.



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[Renfield]

Well, you all can take this solution and use it for what it is worth to you or you can say "holy shit, it's been decoded and recoded! Oh, the horror"!

When I get a disk that won't 'play' on my computer so I can rip it, but it does play on my DVD/CD player ('stereo' is adjacent to computer anyway), I take a pair of RCA cables and plug them into the "audio out" plugs on the stereo and plug the other end into the 'line in' on the sound card of the computer and just rip the stream. It works perfectly, you could never tell it has been decoded and recoded. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Truly the solution of a man who drives a tractor! Manual override.

[Gurn Blanston]

Truly the solution of a man who drives a tractor! Manual override.

  What it lacks in elegance it makes up for in effectiveness.



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[Renfield]

  What it lacks in elegance it makes up for in effectiveness.

Indeed.

[drogulus]

     Well of course if you cheat........

[Gurn Blanston]

     Well of course if you cheat........

  Well, I did mention way back at the beginning of the thread that I had a solution if other stuff didn't work. I'm not proud of it, Ernie...   



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[The Diner]

Though I rip everything in one format, so I'd never thought to try your solution!

If you decide to try it, let us know the results.

[Mirror Image]

I've had two glitches as of late: 1. second disc of Solti's Parsifal and 2. second disc, 4th track of Langgaard Antikrist. I contacted both sellers and have requested new sets or a complete refund if they do not have another copy. This really bothers me, because I rip the CDs using iTunes and the glitches were in the same exact spots when I ripped them again. Errrr.....

[DavidW]

Stupid question: did you rip with error protection?

[Mirror Image]

Stupid question: did you rip with error protection?

I'm pretty sure that I did, but where would I find this out?

[DavidW]

I'm pretty sure that I did, but where would I find this out?

Edit->preferences->import settings and then there is a box to check for error correction.  Of course if you hear the glitch upon cd playback then you know it most likely is the cd.

[Mirror Image]

Edit->preferences->import settings and then there is a box to check for error correction.  Of course if you hear the glitch upon cd playback then you know it most likely is the cd.

That's the thing, I haven't played these CDs back in a CD player yet. I guess I jumped the gun on this one.

Thanks for the information by the way.

Okay, it is definitely the CD for the Langgaard it occurs at 3:20 on track 4 on the 2nd disc. This is even after I checked the box for error correction.

Edit: Just played the CD as well and the glitch occurred there as well.