And it still works!

[Rotareneg]

Got this old Art of Noise CD sitting around that'd only play in my portable because of a few scratches:

My Memorex 52x CD-RW and EAC couldn't extract without lots of glitches and timing errors so I ended up just recording the analog output from my Panasonic PCDP with anti-skip turned on, which worked pretty good. Anyone else have any CD's that are that bad (or worse?

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[D-EJ915]

That thing shouldn't be able to play!!, it's got scratches through the data layer!!...I don't have any discs that bad, all of my discs are under 6 years old, so none here.

 

[null]

If you want even better sound quality, see if you can get a player (or use your pc's cd rom drive) with a digital coax/optical out. Then burn the digital signal onto a cd-r.

 

[OneMalt]

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Originally Posted by D-EJ915 all of my discs are under 6 years old, so none here.

Hell, I've got discs 19 years-old and none of them look like that!

 

[ayt999]

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Originally Posted by Rotareneg a few scratches....

remind me to have someone double check your goods before I send you money if I ever buy anything from you.

 

[Rotareneg]

Not entirely sure why it's so messed up, it's my brothers CD and I think it may have sat in a big pile of bare CD's for a while.

As for getting a digital extraction, it'd have to be a portable player with a digital output and good anti-skip, which I don't have. All my regular players, including a Sony DVD player, my Denon DCM-370, and the DVD-ROM and CD-RW drive in my computer all play it with glitches here and there, and have a few spots where they get hung up at. EAC ends up running error correction on each sample, it estimated it'd take over an hour to extract a 2 minute track, and that's before it gets to a really bad spot where the other players get stuck. My SL-SW860 on the other hand seems to have no problem with it at all, no noticible pops or glitches when played with it's 40 second anti-skip turned on.

 

[Rotareneg]

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Originally Posted by ayt999 remind me to have someone double check your goods before I send you money if I ever buy anything from you.

Hehe, forgot the

smiley. "Slightly used" probably wouldn't be a good description of that disk, that'd for sure.

 

[Dane]

The scratches seem quite spotty and evenly spread out and there is no continious damage running parallel to the tracks. I'd think a high quality transport would read that disc fine.

Fortunately my copy of that disc doesn't look like that