Good morning all!
I purchased a copyright protected audio CD from my local music store a few days ago,
and I would like to rip and convert the CD's music tracks into either WAV or other lossless audio formats.
My very first question is that, however, I don't know which version of EAC I should make a trial to, coz I don't have any experience on EAC tool before.
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In the light of what this post discussed:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofive...php/t33164.html
could some one kindly tell which speed mode a beginning learner of EAC should choose from?
It seems to me that the option of EAC speed can greatly affect the quality of the grabbed files.


Please kindly help!

Thanks!

Kitty

The latest one?

From the thread mentioned by the OP, it appears that dbpoweramp handled some copy protected discs OK. As it has AccurateRip you'll be able to compare your rip to other people's rips for added assurance.

However, with EAC, some people report that Burst Mode works OK depending on your drive. If you have enabled Accurate Rip you also get to compare results with other people.

The other option is to return the copy-protected disc as defective and try to buy a real CD Digital Audio disc instead.

That version of AccurateRip could only rip in burst mode and no mention was made of the rip being verified by AccurateRip! Any other ripper (iTunes, WMP, EAC, etc.) configured to use burst mode (where appropriate) could and would have produced similar results. Because of this, any inferred claims that dBpowerAMP was able to rip that disc correctly should be summarily rejected!!!

The ability to rip a protected disc lies more in the capability of the drive than the ripper.

Thanks all for the help!
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Actually I am wondering if the Burst Mode would cause any unwanted or even defective results.
Couldn't remember where I read the post that Burst Mode would just make crap; coz the ripped audio files have loud pop / crack problems.
Any ideas?

If you use test and copy in burst mode and get the same CRC for both passes then the results are probably not defective.

The refered to dBpoweramp version had a special copy protected switch which could get around many of the false TOC copy protections use, so this version could perhaps rip the disc where as iTunes, WMP, EAC could not.

An updated and better implementation will reapear in R13 (never made R12 due to tim constraints).

Thanks for the clarification. At the time of the post, EAC had an ability to circumvent false TOC copy protections as well, so that would leave iTunes and WMP in the cold, if that was the type of protection at play. There really wasn't enough information in that post to draw any real conclusions.

Looking forward to seeing R13!

I agree with greynol:

I have a CD which has defeated several drives, namely The Original Driving Rock Album. In some of them EAC displayed a mixture of audio and data tracks. In others it showed the tracks correctly but failed with multiple read and sync errors.

Just one drive handled this disc correctly; it was in an old Dell Inspiron laptop. My first attempt using EAC 0.95b4 - the latest version at the time - gave me all the music without errors but not split correctly by track. The previous version, 0.95b3, had an option to manually detect the TOC and this did the job properly.

It is probably unnecessary for me to address this, but I would recommend to anyone ripping CD's that they first disable CD Autostart via GPEDIT.MSC. Most protected discs that I have run across rely on Autostart for their protection. Disable Autostart and the protection is defeated. By doing this, I have never been deterred by protected discs.