Ripping music from cds = pure silence on both drives...

[Demosthenes]

Hey fellas.... this is the last problem my computer is having after my recent upgrading.. so if you were able to help I will much appreciate it.

Whenever I use a ripper to grab tracks off a music cd.. (have tried CDex as well as Exact Audio Copy)... all it rips is pure silence. Actually, CDex rips a couple of minutes of silence and then a bunch of garbled nonsense at the end. I thought it was the program, so I got a new one.. same thing. So I thought it was the drive (lite-on 40x)... and I tried my Plextor 12x burner, same thing. I've tried updating ASPI drivers a million times.. messing with all the settings possible... but I just can't figure this out for the life of me. Has anyone ever had something like this happen? Any help or pointers at all would be much appreciated...

 

[DKNYSprt95]

Might be a copy protection issue... did you try to make MP3's with it or were you trying to make a duplicate of the CD? if the copy protect is there then just try to make the MP3's and burn it with nero or something... If all else fails, go into the CD and copy the wav files out

PEter

 

[Demosthenes]

Ah.. thanks for the help... what I really need to do is totally convert my entire CD collection into mp3s, since I just got a huge new hard drive (IBM 80gig) that can handle it all.... I haven't come across the answer to the riddle yet, still can't rip from cds at all... does anyone else have an idea ?

UPDATE: I just tried Audiocatalyst, and of course it didn't work... it just gave me some long error message about the ASPI manager, at least now I know where to start looking for the answer...

Does anyone know which/where ASPI manager I should use for my 40x Lite-On burner?

 

[straubs]

You do have the sound cables going from your cd-roms to your sound card right? Like you can play a CD and hear it coming through your sound card?

 

[michec]

Do you have sound set to digital when your drives may only support analog? Or do have sound set to digital but have digital muted in volume control?

 

[Dolemite76]

look on the web for an ASPI Driver like from Adaptec... might help...