CD Ripping

bleepandbooster

Had a new computer a few months ago and have been ripping my CD collection onto the HD via Windows Media and recently onto iTunes. But I have about 12 CD's that sound awful ! All my CD's are the real deal and in good condition. The operating system is Windows 7 64 bit. I have played the CD's in the car and they sound fine. I have also checked via MS Fixit to see if the drivers are up to date and they are.

So has anyone had a problem and what was the solution ?

Cofion
David

GunJack

try ripping them with freerip

http://majorgeeks.com/FreeRIP_d5653.html

alternatively, if this gives similar results, try editing them with audacity for better sound quality

http://www.filehippo.com/download_audacity/

just remember to download LAME for audacity to work alongside it with MP3's - the links are in the audacity help section

bleepandbooster

Thanks GJ for your help ............. but the thing is even just playing the CD without ripping it sounds awful ! I have Googled the problem and some people seem to think it is Anti Piracy !

Any Help

Cofion
David

Lincoln_Imp

Not much help but if the cd sounds awful beforehand then its nothing to do with the ripping
Dont see how anti piracy can affect the sound BEFORE you have ripped it

When you say sounds awful how do you mean and are you playing them through your pc ?
Built in pc speakers are pretty crap to be honest or do you have some seperate desktop ones

JJ_Egan

If they play and sound ok in standalone music players then its either PC Speakers or cabling or PC Sound Card or possibly settings for sound .

Presume its an onboard sound rather than a dedicated sound card ?

Slight possibility that its the cd dvd drive playing up .

jje

bleepandbooster

All my Cd's were ripped onto my last computer running XP fine. But now there are just a few that just sound awful either just playing or ripping onto the HD. I have got myself an ipod so I have been ripping them directly to itunes .......... But the same few CD's still sound awful, kind of hissy/crackling. But if I put them on in the car CD player they are fine ! They are all proper CD's (No long John silver one's here !) and all kept in thier cases with no scratches.

It's a puzzler to me !

Cofion
David

DCFC79

Maybe its the speakers or cabling as egan says, maybe try playing a youtube video to see if it is the speakers

GunJack

you may need something more specialist like Magix to clean up the sound once ripped if it's too far gone for audacity to sort..

rrf494g

It seems that the problem is, that you have some bona fide CDs that do not properly play in your computer. If they they don't play well, they certainly won't rip well either.

One possibility is that the discs are of a "copy protected" type that came out some years ago (are they still being made?). The protection was a form of corruption that most CD players could correct, but most computer cd players/software had problems with. They were "controversial" to say the least, as some Hi-Fi cd players had problems with them too, and many discs were returned as "faulty". I think there was a particular "stink" in germany about this practice.

The only way to get them to play properly in computers is to find a hardware/software combination with particularly strong error correction built in - quite a specialist area. EAC software has some good error correction options. Plextor cd drives have some correction options. I can't say I've come across this problem or solved it. But it certainly is reasonable (and legal) to expect CDs to play in computers.
good luck.

bleepandbooster

Thanks for your answer rrf494g this is what I was thinking, but I am now hoping that someone may know a fix without me buying new CD's or doing that new young folks thing of downloading !!!!!!!!

Thanks again
David

closed

look on the cover/insert to see if they are copy protected, and if so, which type. Who made the cd may also be relevant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

also try ripping on a non itunes system