Hi,

When I rip MP3 or WAV-files with this Windows 2000 computer they don't contain any music, it's just silence... On Windows Xp it works perfect with the same software. I am able to play MP3 files on the Windows 2000 machine, they're good, but creating them fails, although the file size and title are correct and .

I use CdEx 1.51 / ExactAudioCopy 0.95, LAME 3.96.1, Windows 2000 with a SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T.

regards, Roel.

I wanted to add that the cd's I am ripping are not copy controlled of whatever, I tried several cd's. My collegue has the same problem, same programs, same OS, but a Liteon DVDrom drive. The files seem to be created perfect, they just do not contain music... when opening with a text editor, they contain the same blocks of data over and over (an MP3 file that does work contains all different blocks of data)...

Can anyone help us out here?

Did you try to rip to a wav file ?
Is the path for lame correct ?

In EAC, in your drive properties, choose MMC1 as read command.

Yes, the Path to LAME.exe is indeed correct and WAVE files give exact the same behaviour - no sound.

Exact Audio Copy gives an error when I try to make a WAV or MP3: Exact Audio Copy couldn't detect a matching read command for this CD-ROM drive. You should try to activate the autodetection of the read command in the drive options dialog. ...

Setting the Drive read command to MMC1 does not solve this warning. CdEx still creates the files, but still no sound.

I found a workaround though.. creating WMA files with Windows Media Player and converting them to MP3 with iTunes. I don't know if this affects the quality of the sound, for what I'm hearing through the headphones I guess not.

Strange...

yes, re-encoding will give you some quality loss, what about importing directly from CD in itunes?

I have had similar problems (silent wavs/MP3's) but in winXP. The problem was random however with some rips working fine, others not. I may still have the problem but I only rip occassionally and have not checked recently.

Best advice I can offer is to check that your "ASPI" is correctly installed. Even better is to have the ASPI file in the same directotry as you installed EAC. (I don't understand ASPI very well - perhaps someone else can explain this better)

Also, when using EAC/LAME to rip to MP3, I found it helped to "start external compressors queued in the background" (in the EAC settings). This setting can supposedly create more problems but it has helped for me.

Hope this helps.

Spockman.

http://www.digital-inn.de/showthread.php?t=12902

From http://www.digital-inn.de/showthread.php?t=21148

On one of my computers I sometimes have the same problem. In my case it's realted to InCD - after using any packet-written CD I can't use EAC until I restart the system. So if you have InCD installed, try to uninstall it. If you don't have InCD then it's probably some other low-level software which causes your problem.
Also, you can try to switch EAC to use another ASPI (EAC Options... Interface tab) - tell it to use "Native Win32 interface for Win NT/2000/XP", restart EAC, and see if the problem is still there. If there is, copy WNASPI32.DLL from the Nero's folder (if you have it) to the EAC's folder, switch EAC to the "Installed external ASPI interface", restart EAC, and check again.
Hope some of it will help.

P.S.: If it's nForce2 based system make sure that you have the newest IDE drivers.

Thanks for all your replys, I will check them out as soon as I'm back from vacation. (also think it has something to do with ASPI software).

i have a similar problem
only with eac,
i rip a track
start the external encoder
eac starts to rips the second tracks
it reads 70x for some seconds , after some seconds eac slow down the rip speed!

the first seconds are silence or full of skips