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RE: dBpoweramp Accu-rip, trust it or not?
Posted by Tony Lauck on August 2, 2011 at 17:08:51:
You can look at them and see if they are scratched. That's usually the case. I have a few that had problems, without any scratches. I suspect they were some kind of "pit rot".
Usually if there are problems with a CD it's only in one track. dBpoweramp will also report how many problem frames are involved (75 frames per second). Often there is just one frame that's bad. If you go and listen to the track then there is a 50-50 chance you won't hear anything wrong. If you own a CD and it rips with errors and you want to listen to it, then just do so. You may be pleasantly surprised that the error are inaudible.
If you get errors on more than a small fraction of your disks and the disks have no obvious problems then it is likely that your drive isn't working so well. The best thing to do then is to try reading the problem disk on a different drive, e.g. on a different computer.
I haven't seen a pattern on whether EAC or dBpoweramp does better on the marginal disks. I have seen a pattern when using different drives.