OK so I am archiving my collection to flac for easy access with mediamonkey I have done hundreds of discs. Previously I was streaming wireless from my office (pc that was used to rip) to living room NO problems. So yesterday I decide to try and cut out the middleman (streaming) and I copied everything to an external drive hooked it up to the living room pc and damn I am hearing diginoise on tracks.
Now the office pc has cheesy logitech speakers and the Living Room is a serious audio rig
yet I dont hear the diginoise in the office.
I have THOUSANDS off tracks ripped.
I could assume something went wrong during the copy from internal hard drive to external hard drive OR during the ripping process
Which is more likely?
I am bummed, I certainly dont want to rerip everything maybe thats what I get for using Mediamokey to rip? although this project has been going on for months and I have not had/heard any problems until last night
Although I do use the auto dj feature of Mediamonkey and I have a tendency to not repeat tracks meaning what ever track comes up gets rated and classified and if it comes up again it more than likely gets skipped.
ARRGG

From your description, my guess is that it's some kind of hardware problem or something isn't set up right on your living room pc. If you provide more specifics about your hardware and about the 'diginoise' you may have more luck in pinpointing your problem.

well in the living room I am going digital out from the pc (asus p5b-vm using on board for digital out) it feeds a Pioneer Elite Receiver
the diginoise is just that noise a brief ssst not digital clipping if you ever had a DAT with dirty heads thats the sound

Is the noise correlated with disk access, by any chance? That would help to narrow down the causes.

If it is, try using an internal disk instead of an external one. If it is already internal, make sure that DMA is turned on for that disk.

Is the digital connection between soundcard and audio system an optical or coaxial type? The latter has an outside chance of coupling some kinds of electrical interference between the two.

If this is happening on all of the tracks, I doubt it's a ripping problem. (You might have a "ripping problem" once in a while, with a few discs). And, I also doubt there's anything wrong with the copied files. (Windows will usually report an error if a file isn't copied correctly, and the player would probably choke on files corrupted in that way.)

Some things you can try to pinpoint the problem:

- Try playing a CD on your living room computer.
- Try copying a known-good audio file the the computer's internal drive and to the external drive.
- Try different player software.
- Try conecting a pair of computer speakers directly, or make an analog connection to your audio system (bypassing the optical/coax connection).

Thats the thing it is not on all tracks not even most it seemed completely random.
OK I just tried a track that last night had the problem. On the office PC it was fine and On the PC in Living Room (where the problem originated) it was fine
based on that it is probably not the rip?
Bear in mind the diginoise is less than a second in duration or seems so anyway.
CD no problems

May I suggest defragmenting the disk?

It could be that the disk is simply not keeping up, ludicrous though it may seem. Windows is notorious for leaving files badly fragmented, and that can slow things down a surprising amount.