I'm having trouble ripping a very large quantity of brand-new CDs using Poikosoft's Easy CD-DA Extractor V. 6

Certain discs repeatedly fail to rip (on the same tracks, usually the last one) and fiddling with the settings doesn't seem to help much.

Current settings are:

Sectors per read: 1
Read mode: Normal
Track offset: None
Swap L/R Channel: No
Disable 'Buffer Overflow' - checking: Yes
Swap byte order: No

I'm using a Plextor UltraPlex 40MAX SCSI drive running under Windows 2000 Pro, ripping WAVs to a large IDE hard drive.

Troublesome discs rip very slowly (sometimes down to 0.01x), and eventually stop, crashing the program. I have to reboot the machine before it'll work properly again. The CDs all play perfectly on an audio CD player.

Has anybody had a similar problem, and does anybody have a solution?

Thanks for reading this admittedly rather long post.

Jack

Try Exact Audio Copy (EAC), or Plextools by Plextor for Plextor drives.

Are the CD's copy protected?

Or, like Andavari wrote, try EAC or Plextools.

I've tried EAC, and haven't had much luck with it (the error correction just leaves chunks of silence in the problem tracks) but I'll give it another go.

I don't have Plextools. I know that there have been postings about this before, but do you know where I can get it? Plextor don't seem to be making it easy.

The CDs aren't copy protected (indeed, they were sent to me by the labels specifically for ripping). The bizarre thing is that when I've asked for duplicates of troublesome discs, the new copies won't rip either.

http://cd-rw.org/software/audio_software/c...s/plextools.cfm
PlexTools Professional Upgrade v2.05


edit: attention...

Right then. I'll contact Plextor, get a copy of the software, and give that a go.

Has anybody else had this problem with Easy CD-DA Extractor?

I've never tried the program before.

When my DVD drive was dying it started freezing up EAC and/or the whole PC when it got to a track with a large enough error. Actually it was doing that on pure data CD's as well. I'm not saying that your drive is dying, however that's the only time I experienced a problem similiar to yours.

Of course since you've already tried EAC it could be an APSI layer problem, such as the ASPI layer not being installed correctly or having damaged files.

I guess the drive could be on its way out. It's ripped about a thousand CDs in a row, but plextor do give it a MTBF of 100,000 hours, so it'd be a disappointment if that's the cause of the problem.

BTW, I've finally found somewhere to download Plextools. It's an old version, but it seems to make the updates work.

GRRRRRR.

The latest version of Plextools crashes too.

I guess that maybe when the error count reaches 90,352,186 I should accept that this CD just doesn't want to be ripped.

Call me old-fashioned, but I just don't understand how a CD can play perfectly well but resolutely refuse to be copied.

Drives of different quality.
Among 6 PC drives, only one was better than my hifi player on damaged CDs (the Teac e540, worse ones were Artec 34x, Yamaha 6416S, Yamaha CRW3200EW, Sony DDU1621, Memorex DVDMaxx1648)

1. Plextools crashing can be caused by virtual CD drives.

2.
This has happened only with copy protected disks here so far (plex px-w 1210A). Lowering extraction speed to 4x and/or burst mode could help.

3. To find out if there is copy protection (containing C2 errors) or not you could extract in secure mode with and without C2 and compare speeds. If extraction is much slower with C2 enabled (and error correction kicks in all the time) there most likely is copy protection.