I see this happen with certain CDs that I believe are out-of-balance. However, for me it occurs near the end of the disc and my drive "transitions" between a high speed with a noise resembling a vacuum cleaner and a much slower speed. It shifts back and forth between these speeds, not reading anything until it settles down to the low speed. It reads the track at a much lower speed than the one before, then does the same "hunting" at the start of the next track. BTW this doesn't seem to affect extraction, I still get perfect rips.
Offhand I'd say these CDs are slightly out-of-balance and/or your drive is very sensitive to these CDs. Possibly the drive is defective in the way it holds CDs. Does it exhibit a tendency to wobble? You can tell if a disc has wobbled in the drive by circular scratches left on the disc when you take it out. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32375 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
