Digital Audio Extraction... help

[smp]

Hi. I have been playing with audiograbber lately and my panasonic (matsushita) 48x cdrom. I have noticed some artifacts when doing digital extraction at 8x (it autodetects up to 20x, but I play safe at 8) and I noticed that there are very slight artifacts in the sound, kind of like little blips of digital distortion. My friend who is kind of neurotic about this stuff is telling me that if I want good audio extraction I have to get a Plextor 40x cdrom... is this true? I don't feel like spending 150 CND on a scsi drive and then have to spend some more money on a scsi card only to be able to extract audio... is there another alternative? I would preferably like to just skip buying a new drive altogether and keep the one I have. I can do analog extractions just fine, but that is at 1x and that is way too slow for my tastes and it's going from digital to analog back to digital and seems kind of redundant and lossy. If someone is a audiograbbing pro, let me know. Thanks.

 

[Shmorq]

Check out http://www.r3mix.net/ and go to ripping. I don't know how true it is, but it says that EAC is the ONLY program that rips perfectly.

It tells you what settings to use and where to download it from. Plus, it's free which is always a bonus.

Also, I don't think the problem is with your driver... probably the software you've been using.

 

[PliotronX]

First try using Exact Audio Copy (setup instructions here) and if there are still anomolies showing up, get a Teac CD-54E drive.

 

[StrangeRanger]

EAC is NOT the only app for ripping. CD DAE is also very good. I even like it better than EAC. Your friend may be kind of right, you may need a new drive to get perfect rips. But you do not have to get a scsi plex drive. I can personally vouch for the Teac CD-540E, i have two of them and they are awesome. Almost any plex drive is great, yamaha and sanyo are also very good. Exploer CD DAE and EAC tho b/f you go droppin some cash on a new drive.
j

 

[slipperyslope]

EAC will give you the accuracy of the rip. I HIGHLY recommend EAC.

Jim

 

[AnitaPeterson]

How funny... everyone says EAC is the best and so on...

Well, I downloaded EAC and tried to use it, ripping from two CD-ROM units: a HP CD-RW and a Creative DVD.

The results were disastrous: not only that the ripping process was very slow, but also the resulting Wav files were full of pops and glitches.

So I went back to Spin Doctor (bundled with Adaptec Easy CD), which I've been using consistently since 1998, and which produces perfect rips every time - and it's also fast.

So, smp, don't be fooled into buying a new drive, get yourself Spin Doctor and use it... any version will work!

 

[Workin']

<< The results were disastrous: not only that the ripping process was very slow, but also the resulting Wav files were full of pops and glitches. >>

That's probably because you did not have it set up correctly. If you pick some settings incorrectly for your hardware, you get the problems you described.

 

[randomlinh]

yeah, if you don't set it up right, it'll screw you over.

And yes, EAC will be slower than others, but very accurate. CDEX is also another good one, but i use EAC+lameb (cause i'm anal about my id3 tags )

 

[Aihyah]

me thinks anitapeterson is a person that never reads manuals... then bitches when something goes wrong haha. EAC is the best current way to rip, but one does have to learn to read.

 

[Aihyah]

me thinks anitapeterson is a person that never reads manuals... then bitches when something goes wrong haha. EAC is the best current way to rip, but one does have to learn to read.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

methinks you don't know when to shut up...

 

[tristramshandy]

Another vote for EAC. Also consider ripping at slower speeds (which EAC seems to do automatically after it as detected all the reading functions of your drive).

 

[Workin']

If you go through the proper procedure for letting EAC detect your drive capabilities, it will rip at the fastest possible speeds. It is important to read the directions and get the settings right before you get started, otherwise your rips will be slow and full of errors.

EAC generally rips from my Acer 10x8x32 CD-RW drive at about 4.8x, and from my Toshiba SDM-1102 DVD drive at about 4.5x Sometimes a lot slower if the CD is in rough shape, but not usually any faster. Also, with the DVD drive, about half the time EAC finishes with errors - but of course the nice thing is that EAC tells you there were errors, and at what time offset they occurred, unlike other rippers that just finish without a warning.

 

[Aihyah]

guess i hit a sore spot for anitapeterson hah. if you would have read about eac even a little, you would know that it verifies its rips, and can read parts many times until it gets it right, which is why it is slower.

 

[ndee]

I just ripped a CD with EAC with about 20x and no pops or whatever. It's a Plextor 12/10/32A drive. Who said it's slow?

 

[smp]

Thanks everone.. I haven't tried it yet because I'm always working, but I will give it a try for sure. I want to rub it in my frends face when I gots the perfect rips off of ma 50 dolla (CND) drive.. yes yes.. rub rub





/me is really not evil, only joking. Atm0sfear, I love you.