Hey Chris,
CD burners are much better at extracting audio to the hard disk than
the internal CD drive. It's possible when whoever converted the DAT
or cassette to CD, they had the levels too high which created
clipping (compared to distortion on analog sources, where saturation
occurs, the highs are clipped on digital sources).
I don't know what to say, but try cleaning the disc, I find a dust
cloth or washing the disc in a dish detergent/warm water mixture to
be the best. Try cleaning the laser on your stereo and discman. If
all else fails, extract the audio to your hard disk from your burner,
and reduce your extract speed to 1x. This will minimize any pops or
clicks.
Hope this helps!
NP-The Slip, Rick's Place, Denton TX 10/18/96 - Invisible Man (my
favorite band!)
At 9:42 AM -0500 12/13/00, Christopher J. Treacy wrote:
>Maybe one of you can answer this -
>Every now and again, I find a disc that I've traded for will not play
>well on my stereo CD player, but will sound fine on my burner. When
>played on the stereo or in my discman, the CD is marred by awful
>crackling that waxes and wanes throughout the entire playback, getting
>louder and softer will the fluctuating volume of the recording. Is this
>because the disc(s) in question are only meant to be played in CD
>Burners? Is there a way I can load the music into my hard drive and
>transfer it to a multipurpose CD and get rid of the noise? I waited 2
>months for this guy to finally send me these Shawn Colvin CDs, and 2 of
>them are crackling away; they sound great on the computer, though! -Chris
>NP:-"Kathy's Song"-Shawn Colvin Live @ McCabes 7-1-92
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