The contenders:
CDex 1.51, updated lame_enc.dll
EAC 0.95PB5 using the lame.exe from the same version of lame: 3.96.1

Drive: Pioneer 107D

CDex set to "Paranoia, Full"
EAC set to "Secure mode..."

Insert cd with a scratch in the last song. Using CDex, there's a skip.
Using EAC, nothing, perfect rip.

Now I'd like to figure out how to set the same options in EAC for
compression, such as VBR, quality, etc. I suspect this means I'm going
to have to learn LAME command line options.

Cheers,

Ari


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spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote:

Does your standalone player skip at that point in the song?

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Joel wrote:
hehe I tried to cancel that message! I wasn't satisfied, so I went back
and "turned paranoia, full" off (back to standard) in cdex. Ripped it
again, got a jitter error again, but in a different place (0:00) so
obviously there was no noticeable skip there. Then I reripped it AGAIN
with cdex with paranoia full turned back on: no jitter errors, no skips.
This in a fraction of the time for extraction that EAC took with its
error correction (EAC warns against using the paranoia option in its
settings).

To answer your question, though: one stand alone player (old) does,
another (newer) doesn't.

Cheers,

Ari

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spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote:

Interesting. I've never needed to use anything but standard, but I'll
definitely keep that in mind.

Thanks.

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Joel wrote:
If you're interested, the track in question was horribly chopped and for
all intents and purposes unplayable when played on my MSI 52x cdrom in
the same system. Although I didn't try ripping it with CDex on that
drive, EAC couldn't handle it at all on that drive, despite it
supposedly having C2 error reporting or some such, whereas the pioneer
107D does not have this feature enabled.

In the end, CDex is better IMO, and I'm still using it.

Cheers,

Ari


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I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
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of the story, as a result of this I need a bone marrow transplant. Many
people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant, too. Please
volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/