I'm getting bad rips from my DVD/CD drive

jimjacobsen · Post by **jimjacobsen** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:08 pm

Hello all,
I'm getting glitches in tracks about half the time when I rip them. They were burned on a standalone CD burner--mixes of songs I'm producing, etc ANYONE have experience with this?
I'g guessing it's the $8.00 DVD/CD burner that came with my G5.
THANKS.
JIM J

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu May 17, 2007 12:16 pm

"Glitches?" Explain.

Are you using Toast? Don't. Use DragonBurn.

or

Try a different brand of media.

or

Try a slower burn speed.

jimjacobsen · Post by **jimjacobsen** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:48 pm

Burning's not the problem, it's the rip. i.e. the file is corrupted on the way into the Mac. By which I mean the file is fine in the standalone CD burner, then the Mac corrupts it while reading the track from it's CD/DVD burner. When I play it back, in I-tuner, for example, it has a problem somewhere. The type of problem varies. Sometimes its a small bit of audio that's repeated so that a beat will sound stretched, sometimes it's a bit SPLAT! sound.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:55 pm

Well, if it's a Finder problem, you may have to do a clean install of your OS.

jimjacobsen · Post by **jimjacobsen** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:06 pm

By clean install do you mean start my program drive from scratch? That's about a week's work rebuilding it!

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sat May 19, 2007 1:50 pm

jimjacobsen wrote:By clean install do you mean start my program drive from scratch? That's about a week's work rebuilding it!

Yeah, that sucks, don't it? I did a clean install of everything on my new MBP, and it only took two days.

Also, here's some good advice, if I do say so myself: When you get your system fine tuned and running well, clone it to a Firewire drive with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Then, if your system goes belly up, you can clone back to a known working state much easier.

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Tue May 22, 2007 2:04 pm

Jim wrote:When you get your system fine tuned and running well, clone it to a Firewire drive with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Then, if your system goes belly up, you can clone back to a known working state much easier.

Very good advice.