[royewest]

I've been ripping my CD collection into iTunes for some time, using Apple Lossless Encoding. I'm running iTunes under WinXP/sp2.

I recently ripped a Monk solo piano CD where I can clearly hear a buzzing distortion, as if there were something loose or broken in my headphones. I have determined by a process of replacement and elimination that this is a problem with the files I ripped -- not my hardware or the original CD.

I tried turning on the error correction option in iTunes, to see if it will clean up the problem if I rerip the CD, but when I rip with that option checked, iTunes just very quickly skips reading the data off the tracks on the CD: They tracks are listed in the iTunes window, but there is no data there.

I've tried this on a couple of recently manufactured CD/DVD drives with the same result.

I found one other person reporting this problem on Audiogon, but no one posted a solution.

Has anyone here encountered this problem?

Thanks!

 

[ozz]

i do the same but on a macbookpro have not noticed anything outside
of the normal sound of the music.

 

[bowraboy]

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Originally Posted by royewest /img/forum/go_quote.gif iTunes just very quickly skips reading the data off the tracks on the CD: They tracks are listed in the iTunes window, but there is no data there. Thanks!

I have had this happen with copy protected CDs in the past.

Have you got the latest version of iTunes?

 

[royewest]

Yes, latest iTunes. How do you identify a copy-protected CD from other audio CDs?

 

[bowraboy]

It should say on the insert somewhere.

 

[unclejr]

Hey - rip the CD with something else like EAC and see if you can hear the problem in FLAC format or using another player like winamp (I guess - do people still use Winamp?). Anyway, which Monk solo cd - I might be able to check to see if I hear it too. A lot of those older recordings are pretty badly mastered and/or have a ton of artifacts that must be hard to remove from the original recordings.



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Originally Posted by royewest /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've been ripping my CD collection into iTunes for some time, using Apple Lossless Encoding. I'm running iTunes under WinXP/sp2. I recently ripped a Monk solo piano CD where I can clearly hear a buzzing distortion, as if there were something loose or broken in my headphones. I have determined by a process of replacement and elimination that this is a problem with the files I ripped -- not my hardware or the original CD. I tried turning on the error correction option in iTunes, to see if it will clean up the problem if I rerip the CD, but when I rip with that option checked, iTunes just very quickly skips reading the data off the tracks on the CD: They tracks are listed in the iTunes window, but there is no data there. I've tried this on a couple of recently manufactured CD/DVD drives with the same result. I found one other person reporting this problem on Audiogon, but no one posted a solution. Has anyone here encountered this problem? Thanks!

 

[royewest]

I'm a little surprised that no one else has stumbled on this problem; can that really be true?

 

[lolittle]

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Originally Posted by royewest /img/forum/go_quote.gif I tried turning on the error correction option in iTunes, to see if it will clean up the problem if I rerip the CD, but when I rip with that option checked, iTunes just very quickly skips reading the data off the tracks on the CD: They tracks are listed in the iTunes window, but there is no data there. I've tried this on a couple of recently manufactured CD/DVD drives with the same result. I found one other person reporting this problem on Audiogon, but no one posted a solution. Has anyone here encountered this problem?

I just 'upgraded' from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate (fresh install on new hard drive). I did not have your problem with XP Pro, I do with Vista Ultimate. My workaround is to turn off error correction. Crappy workaround!