Well this is the first time I’ve run into this.

I tried to rip Phil Collins “....Hits” down to mp3 format through EAC and my LAME 3.97beta encoder would just peter out and show file path names in the Winamp playlist dialog box instead of the ID3tag. The black DOS box as the encoder compresses the tracks that would normally appear, just flashes for a second without encoding anything and then just disappears.

EAC will rip this CD down to FLAC just fine, but when I tried to rip it to mp3 format, it created files that wouldn’t play through either Winamp or Win Media Player (which I rarely use).

I then tried to use dBpowerAMP to encode the FLAC files into mp3, but all that did was create files that were unplayable. I hit the play button in Winamp and nothing happens and the id tag wouldn’t even appear in the Winamp playlist box.

At first I thought my LAME encoder was somehow corrupted but then when I ripped another CD after it, it worked just fine. It seems to be only this particular Phil Collins disc which came out in 1998. There’s no label on the CD saying that it’s copyright protected. What’s going on?

Is there anyway around this?

Thanks.

Have you tried converting it to MP3 using foobar2000?

> dBpowerAMP to encode the FLAC files into mp3, but all that did was create files that were unplayable

Perhaps the FLAC file is corrupted. Hold the mouse over the mp3 file dbpoweramp created, and the length and size of the file should be shown, it should be around 4MB, not 4KB.