holy crap...just ripped some cd's for the first time....wtf..

[Barnaby W. Füi]

they are all skippy and messed up sounding...my cd's arent bad, they arent perfect, but still not very bad. what can i do to correct this?

 

[PliotronX]

What CDROM drive are you using, and what ripping software?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

sony 52x and MusicMatch

 

[PliotronX]

Dang, I don't know the MusicMatch software. The only things I can suggest are making sure the CD is in pristine condition, and you have the ASPI layers installed.

 

[huanaku]

Did you rip "on-the-fly"? Or did you copy from the cd to the hard drive first, then encode them? What processor do you have?

 

[Ameesh]

try using windows media player to rip them into wma, if you have winxp i think you'll like wmp8.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

nope, i'm ripping them to mp3's on my HDD

i refuse to touch WMA.

i don't really know about all the ASPI stuff, i know i don't have aspi32.dll installed, but i tried to install it and it said it's only for adaptec stuff and refused to install because of that. hm.

EDIT: oh and its a duron 750

 

[PliotronX]

Your machine's got plenty of horsepower. Adaptec is kinda mean that they won't let anyone install the ASPI layers without one of their SCSI adapters installed. That's why some dope person made ForceASPI. You can get it here (at the way bottom).

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

thx alot!

now i can use cdrwin and other progs besides nero (or at least try them)

but about skippy cds...uh well..we'll see.

 

[PrincessGuard]

Exact Audio Copy - the only way to rip...

 

[randomlinh]

i second, third, and quad the EAC recommendation. just make sure you have the settings correct... in other words, take a look at the docs.

 

[yakko]

More votes for Exact Audio Copy here too.

 

[RSI]

I used to use EAC when I had my comp working. It's great.

-RSI

 

[woodly6]

That was a great page PliotronX thanx!!!!


BTW: bookmarked!

 

[bozo1]

Wasn't Musicmatch the one that made burns sound shytty if you used a warez serial number? It was one of 'em.

 

[royaldank]

Skippy CDs could be the media/speed.

I remember I had a crappy ACER 6X writer that was a POS. Many players wouldn't read the discs and those that would had troubles the whole way through. Even when I tried at 2X.

Maybe that is the problem. For ripping, Audio Catalyst is another program that is good. Can't compare since I haven't used EAC...might have to give it a try.

 

[Aihyah]

music match is a lousy encoder, search google for lame encoder and download the newest one. then search for razorlame (gui for lame) after that its pretty simple.. encode away.

Audio Catalyst is another program that is good. <---- worst of the mp3 encoder/rippers ever. i guess easy to use, but quality of shtzzz