maybe a usefull tip

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I was a bit fussing around with putting my music cd's on hd, when I noticed CDex, the program I use, was reading perfectly new cd's as if it's a bit scratched. I used the CDex version 1.51, and so I tried CDex version 1.3, wich did a better job (despite encoding it on a tad lesser quality, nonetheless, it's the ogg-vorbis format, encoded at app 200-250 kbps)
But then also version 1.3 wrongly read the cd (while the cd was virtually new, no blips when playing in a cdplayer)
This time, I used a program (in this case, I used Nero cd-burning software, but I could as well use cloneCD or something like that) to make an image of the cd. Then, I used the program "Daemon tools", to be able to acces the image as if it was a real cd. Then, I used CDex again to rip and encode the music from the image. Wich worked perfectly, no blips, just perfect crystal clear sound :banana:

Thought I'd share :-)

[X-ray]

@ Toy Boy

I tried Audiograbber:

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

and had quite a bit of success with it. I'm curious if you try that, maybe you don't have to make the CD-image first?
It's freeware too :-)

[X-ray]

Edit: double post

[Speelgoedmannetje]

hm, yes, I've tried audiograbber a while ago as shareware, since it was not free back then. I wasn't satisfied with it since it was dog slow and it did not make good copies of the music. Since then I used cdex, because that worked better
I just noticed recently that when I want good quality it generates more failures. I see now that audiograbber is free, so I'll have a try (since it's also alot newer version)
thanks for the tip :-)

[Karlos]

CD Audio doesn't contain any checksum data at all does it? What sort of speed are you grabbing at?

[Speelgoedmannetje]

that's indeed the prob with audio cd's
I dunno wich speed cdex grabs it, it's a standard speed (and I haven't found an option to control the speed in cdex yet)

[Doobrey]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
I was a bit fussing around with putting my music cd's on hd, when I noticed CDex, the program I use, was reading perfectly new cd's as if it's a bit scratched.

I`ve never had that with CDex,( even when I used it`s DLL in one of my own programs! :-D ).. I once had a CD with a scratch so bad, it wouldn`t work on any hifi I tried it on, but it ripped fine with CDex.
 
It could be that the disc uses a copy protection scheme that breaks the CD-ROM standards for audio, some of the earlier schemes did that. Some caused Apple Macs to lock up solid and had to be stripped down to remove the disc  :pissed:

Anyway if it is protected, you`ll probably start to hear the  RIAA drop ship approaching your house right about now. :destroy:

[Speelgoedmannetje]

No, it is not write protected.
With lower bitrates (yup, I encoded it at *quite* a high bitrate) it works indeed flawlessly.

Anyway if it is protected, you`ll probably start to hear the RIAA drop ship approaching your house right about now.

hm, yes, from time to time it's very questionable what these copyright guys do.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

hm, now I guess my cdrom is failing :-(

ffs this thing is new :-x