by huge » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:55 pm
update #1 ...
I deleted the files from my library (and Hard Drive) and re-ripped the CD. There are still glitches around the same spot, but they're slightly different. So I assume there's something wrong at that physical spot on the surface of the CD that is making it hard to rip.
The question is ... how can I get MM to alert me if it has trouble ripping a track cleanly, and/or to keep retrying a sector of a CD until it gets it right?
update #2 ... curiouser and curiouser ...
I tried ripping the track with EAC, and I got a sync error (but not a read error, which would be more serious) at a *different* spot on the same track. I did notice EAC struggling slightly (error correction lights flash briefly and the process slows down) at approximately the point where the glitch occurs in the MM-ripped track. So clearly there is a defect on the CD around that track, and MM has trouble at one spot and EAC has more trouble at another. BUT ... the track that EAC rips has no audible glitch (to my ears anyway) either at the MM-glitch-point or at the EAC-sync-error point. I ran EAC's "correct glitches" process, and it reported something like 100 glitches that it corrected, which is normal for a small CD scratch that produces a sync error, but again ... I couldn't hear anything wrong with the audio either before or after the "correction".
So I'm less concerned that I'm going to end up with glitches all over the place if I rip my CD collection into MM, since there is clearly a defect on this particular disc, which hopefully is not true of my entire collection. But I'm still worried that MM didn't even realize that it ran into a problem on the disc, and created an mp3 file with a glitch/dropout.
I'm guessing there's no way to make MM as good/careful as EAC in ripping CD's, correct? Is there a plugin or an easy way to make EAC work with MM to rip tracks to the library?
update #1 ...
I deleted the files from my library (and Hard Drive) and re-ripped the CD. There are still glitches around the same spot, but they're slightly different. So I assume there's something wrong at that physical spot on the surface of the CD that is making it hard to rip.
The question is ... how can I get MM to alert me if it has trouble ripping a track cleanly, and/or to keep retrying a sector of a CD until it gets it right?
update #2 ... curiouser and curiouser ...
I tried ripping the track with EAC, and I got a sync error (but not a read error, which would be more serious) at a *different* spot on the same track. I did notice EAC struggling slightly (error correction lights flash briefly and the process slows down) at approximately the point where the glitch occurs in the MM-ripped track. So clearly there is a defect on the CD around that track, and MM has trouble at one spot and EAC has more trouble at another. BUT ... the track that EAC rips has no audible glitch (to my ears anyway) either at the MM-glitch-point or at the EAC-sync-error point. I ran EAC's "correct glitches" process, and it reported something like 100 glitches that it corrected, which is normal for a small CD scratch that produces a sync error, but again ... I couldn't hear anything wrong with the audio either before or after the "correction".
So I'm less concerned that I'm going to end up with glitches all over the place if I rip my CD collection into MM, since there is clearly a defect on this particular disc, which hopefully is not true of my entire collection. But I'm still worried that MM didn't even realize that it ran into a problem on the disc, and created an mp3 file with a glitch/dropout.
I'm guessing there's no way to make MM as good/careful as EAC in ripping CD's, correct? Is there a plugin or an easy way to make EAC work with MM to rip tracks to the library?