I have quite a few DTS audio CDs that consist of amateur conversions of historical quadraphonic recordings. In general, I've found that the DTS signal is very delicate and have had cases where a given disc would not play error-free until it was extracted and copied onto a better blank.
The desire to get DTS material off of CDs and onto something hopefully more stable was one of the reasons I got a Squeezebox. The other reason was to organize and make playable my very large collection of live material, which was actually the project I tackled first, putting an enormous amount of mileage on my DVD/CD drive before moving on to the DTS. To my utter horror, I've been finding that the DTS material I've loaded is riddled with errors. I've had extracted bits that sounded awful (lots of dropouts) even though the original CD-Rs would play without any problem. At first I was blaming dBpoweramp, having recently switched to it from EAC after reading so many glowing reviews here. But I re-extracted one of the problem tracks with EAC and still had garbage. So I fired up an ancient Windows 98 machine I keep around Just In Case and extracted the track there using EAC. The results were perfect. So, as near as I can tell, the months I've spent beating the hell out of my Pioneer DVR A09XLA1 killed it...but in a way that generates *consistent* errors, which of course are then not caught by extraction software looking for inconsistencies across multiple reads. This is kind of a worst-case scenario nightmare--I have no idea how long this has been going on or how many files contain errors, either subtle or audible. I'm honestly surprised that it's even *possible*, but it appears to be. Not really asking for help here, just venting my frustration and passing on the great news that this kind of thing can happen. -- atrocity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55750 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
