atrocity wrote: > I've seen: > > 1. Discs that look perfect and play fine but refuse to rip cleanly in > any drive > > 2. Discs that look perfect and play fine but will only rip cleanly in > *some* drives > > 3. Discs that look chewed up but read perfectly in a single pass > > 4. Discs with damage that interfered with normal playback but that > ripped cleanly > > 5. "Bronzed" PDO discs that looked screwed up but ripped just fine > > 6. And yes, visually-perfect discs where only some tracks can be read in > some drives > > After ripping too-many-thousand CDs I think I've seen it all. I can't > make any generalizations about commercially-produced discs, but I can > say that those who sprung for Taiyo Yuden and/or Mitsui CD-Rs did not > waste their money. > > I keep a couple of very, very old IDE Teac and Plextor drives around and > mount them in a USB adaptor for problem discs. Sometimes even a brand > new disc requires hooking one or both of them up to get a clean read.
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