I used to use cdcopy, but it dont work with XP. It used to be great for ripping cds that were scratched up.
Anyone know of sommink thatd do the same job?
I know wmp can rip cds but it aint clever enough to deal with beat up cds.
This is good, EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) , and accepted and recomended on music torrent sites as the best way to go. It is free.
Features (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/overview/features/features-of-eac/)
cheers, Ill give that a go :)
I use one called Roadkils Unstoppable Copier.
Just continually tries to read every bit until it succeeds of blank pads the bits it really cant manage.
If it actually does ever find any it cant manage then youd be better to get some toothpaste and a fine cloth and just rub the scratch out. Its almost unheard of that you actually scratch the CD data - its usually just the plastic bit on top of it that you can simply buff out with a fine enough grit paper (or toothpaste if you havent got any fine grit wet and dry).
Im trying EAC at the moment, its taken 2hrs to rip 5 tracks and its got an eta of 5hrs :/
What pisses me off is the cd plays fine in my hi-fi. Can you even get decent cdroms for PCs?
edit on a side note I managed to accidently cut my win xp cd in half earlier with a pair of scissors thinking it was a coaster.
youll probably find your hifi is just blank padding the things it cant read with zeros. PC cd drives dont let you do that (unless you use software like the above). Plus a cd in a stereo is spinning at 1x. Youve probably got your PC drive spinning at a default of 52x or something.
Ive tried the toothpaste thing and Im running it at 4x and its a little better.
EAC slows the speed down if the cd is hard to read and rereads many times before giving up, so it will take time.
Trouble with scracthes ? (http://users.fulladsl.be/spb2267/index.htm) < Look in "Restoring damaged CDs"
Ah, cheers guys. I changed a setting in EAC and its working great now.
"Secure Setting" is really slow, gotta change it to basic jitter correction :)
I edited my post above.
The secure setting is if you rip and upload to torrent site :)
Thanks I used "burst mode" and its worked really well :)
In EAC if you use secure setting and have your particular drive tested at the accuraterip site and use feture in EAC, you will have pre gap read and write figurs to add in EAC and if u make FLAC files you can make a identical copy
which is very near the original.
tbh, scratched cds have never been an issue for me. I dont see how one program is going to be better than the other except at possibly predicting the missing data???
Buy CD -> Put in CD Drive -> Itunes automatically starts ripping and then playing from the cd.
EAC is excellent when you have taken the time to read how to properly configure it for secure reading, CRCs, calibratring for drive offset, etc, for most people this isnt worth their time though and as bear mentioned is more for audiophiles to log music rips to prove FLACs are bit perfect and such.
SteveF pretty much covered why your music system will play it but not PC drives (which are actually far more robust optical read devices). The toothapaste is a good idea.
CDex is a good app if youre not interested in bit perfect ripping.
for most things i use Audiograbber with the LAME Codec. Decent enough for most uses when ripping to MP3. I like VBR MP3s because they play in pretty much anything you put them in.