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Re: Trouble with playback of computer ripped cds

Well, let's look at one of the two problems you mention - CDs ripped and burned by you having the clicking. Since you mentioned you have Nero, try the following. Locate the CDSpeed.exe (Nero CD-DVD Speed) in one of the subdirectories of the one Nero is installed in. Run it and put a recordable CD in the drive you use for ripping. Choose Extra, Advanced DAE Quality Test, Create Test CD. This will burn a test CD that will be used to test the audio ripping error correction quality of your burner. After the disc has been created, choose Extra, Advanced DAE Quality Test, Run Test. This will take a while. When it's done, check the "quality score" of the DAE extraction. If it's not 100 percent, the burner has defective digital audio extraction, and getting reliable rips will be an exercise in frustration.

If it's okay, the next step is to try EAC for ripping - but that's a subject in itself. There are various modes for audio ripping that can be used. I'm not sure whether the mode used by Nero for ripping is robust against data errors. In any event CD audio error correction is much less robust that that for CD data, so ripping software can make a huge difference here in certain cases.

Another problem I had was with discs burned at 52x skipping in the car. When I changed my procedure to burn at the slowest available rate (8x for my drive), that fixed the problem.

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