Hello,

I recently encoded an Album, which went pretty smooth except for two tracks. At the end of the first track there is a quite annoying "crackle" and the following track has this crackle too - but at the very beginning and not at the end like the previous track. When I listen to both tracks in my CD player, there is no flaw at all. I tried to extract the songs as wav files, but it didn't make it any better

So how can I encode these two tracks as mp3 or get a perfect wav file? The CD is brand new, has no scratches and no Copy Protection.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Did you use EAC? did it report errors?

If it is impossible to get a good rip you could try Deglitch from RW.

no I did not use EAC. I forgot to mention that I'm hooked to an Apple.

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am I the only who had this kind of problem?

thank you!

You can try to re-rip the 2 files as raw wave files (or whatever raw audio format commonly used on a Mac), then use, as Jan said, a deglitcher, or an interpolator (EAC does this well for me in Windows).

I think an interpolator may not work well if the glitch is at the very end or beginning of the audio file... but in any case, after you've removed the crackle, you can encode those files into the compressed format that you use.

All right. I goanna try this. However, I wonder of this is some sort of crappy copy protection or something. I mean, the CD is not labeled as such or anything, but someone mentioned to me that this problem often occurs on copy protected CD's.

Does anyone know a good wav cutter for MAC? I just extracted both songs as one song and the glitch is gone So, know I just have to cut the wav file in two peaces and encode it, right?

Thanks for all your help!

I finally managed it to get the AIFF files in good quality, however any attempt to encode this into mp3 failed. I mean, it doesn't fail, but the glitch is there again...what the *§)"/§. Isn't there any work around to this? How can there be a crackle in the mp3 file when there wasn't one at the AIFF source? Sounds for me like the perfect copy protection...but it only happens on these two songs and the CD isn't labled at such a bad copy controlled boy