- Distorted MP3 after some CD rips
- Posted by Pierre B. on November 7th, 2003
Hi,
After ripping some recently acquired CD's, I noticed that the
resulting MP3's are full of distortion, whereas the CD doesn't have
it. This really bothers me cause I really like the MP3 format and the
ability to have a real jukebox on the PC. I never play my CD's on an
audio CD player anymore, just the MP3 rips from the computer jukebox.
Details:
- This only happens for certain recent CD's. I've ripped all of my CD
collection to MP3's, and the rips have been of very good quality up to
now.
- I use MusicMatch jukebox 7.5 on XP, although the same distortion is
present on rips I do from these new CD's with my old PC (MusicMatch 4
on Win98)
- I usually rip with the following parameters: format=MP3, 128Kbps,
digital recording mode. I've also tried recording to WAV yielding the
same distortion. I've tried recording in analogue mode with same
results.
- If I play the music directly from the CD on the PC's CD-ROM drive,
it comes out fine, no distortion.
The point is: it happens only for some new CD's. Is there a new twist
added to CD DA technology that would prevent some encoding s/w to
record properly? What can I do?
Should I post this on another forum?
- Posted by Slow Joe on November 8th, 2003
On 7 Nov 2003 11:10:17 -0800, c16031@hotpop.com (Pierre B.) wrote:
It certainly sounds like copy protection, rather than random disc read
errors. Different programs will be more or less sensitive to different
types of copy protection. You might want to download several different
ripper programs so you can handle whatever the boscos do to the discs.
If all else fails, you could just go ahead and play the cda disc and
record the music that is passing through your sound card with a wave
editor.
regards,
joe
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It matters not how experienced you are, nor how dedicated to the task. If you're not having fun, you are doing it wrong.
- Posted by Aaron Lawrence on November 8th, 2003
Suddenly, Pierre B. sprang forth and uttered these pithy words:
Hello? Are you asleep? There are dozens of ways that the CD companies
are trying to stop you doing this.
Try some different software, say www.cdex.net
--
aaronl at consultant dot com
For every expert, there is an equal and
opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke
