There's an explanation of what you can expect from damaged CDs here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?DiscRepair
With light damage, there just aren't enough consecutive missing samples for you to notice. As damage increases, when there are enough missing samples, you'll hear a slight tick, sometimes only in one channel - then it appears on both channels, then it becomes an outright dropout, extending longer and longer. As the article outlines, axial scratches are the worst, often causing dropouts of several seconds or more and ripping-scratchiness where it can recover bits of the track. If you copy such a CD you won't correct any errors. You may save a little time, but the end result won't be any better. That data just isn't readable. If you don't want to do anything about the errors, rip in burst mode. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36129 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
