Hi, sorry for the multitude of posts lately but I've been trying to rip some of my music collection for my puter.

So, I'm happily ripping the CD's everything’s nice and dandy (10cds) all ok, 11'th, ok EAC detects some errors continues and @80% blurts an error message (error detected), bugger, ok lets try with c2 turned on -> same result, don't despair Plextools -> same f*****g error. And both rippers stop! no continue no ignore just stop and all my hard work ~560mb up to this point are useless!!!! What do I do now? How do I tell EAC to continue (I now it detected an error but world ain't perfect and I don't have another CD) or is there another way?

BTW if I look at the CD it looks perfectly ok, no scratches no dots nothing.

P.S. is there a way to create a single WAV+CUE with Plextools like in EAC?

Thanks.

try CDEX in full paranoia.

I'd do this (after being sure that the surface of the CD is not the reason - sometimes scratches parallel to the groove are hard to notice for the eye but cause errors hard to correct):

Rip in burst mode (EAC) two times.
-> Do a wave substraction using a wave editor to find suspicious positions and listen to them (in the extracted .wavs, not in the substraction result ).
-> Where needed use the wave editor's deglitch/click repair/... function.

That's very weird, CDEX ripped the CD without a hitch, no errors nothing (full paranoia mode)... So I don't trust CDEX anymore (just deleted it), opted for [tigre]'s solution.

Thanks.

Did you listen to the CDEX paranoia rip before you deleted the program, and did it produce any audible glitches, pops or crackles? If it sounded OK, then that's probably as good a rip as you're going to get from that CD.

Comparing EAC burst mode rips as Tigre suggests might work, but it might not. The deglitch function doesn't always work very well, and even when it does, it's not giving you a "bit-perfect" rip of the CD, any more than CDEX would.

If the CDEX rip sounded OK, I'd accept it and be happy.

The problem is how can I trust a program which doesn't output error warnings? So it's either EAC and Plextools are unreliable or CDEX. I would say it's 2:1 -> CDEX looses; To tell the truth I've listened to all 3 rips at the problematic places and all sounded the same but that doesn't matter, what does matter is that by burning with CDEX I would have to rip-listen-compare-rip with other program-compare because I can't trust it's error detection unless someone proves that both Plextools and EAC are faulty.

EAC was designed for SECURE ripping (with error messages and highest possible quality).
If the error is inaudible, then you just have to live with it.
EDIT: The CD is probably so badly damaged (or copy-controlled), that you can't get bit-identical copy. Try a different drive.

Reading the 'bug report' you have written, I thought that EAC & PlexTools couldn't finish ripping. Please write 'crealry'.

Both EAC & Plextools finished ripping only after I tweaked the settings (EAC burst mode etc). They didn't in secure mode. And I didn't report a bug.

(hopefully that's is clear and what's up with you, did you wake on the wrong side; trolling bashing ....)

Have fun

I strongly believe AstralStorm has only the best intentions. Look at his sig!

Topic-related:
I have a little improvement for the method I suggested before (will be more work but could give better results):
1. Use EAC's "copy range" to get as much of the CD in secure mode as possible.
2. Use the method from my 1st post to get the rest
3. Join the parts with a wave editor

"The way to Hell is paved with good intentions." (heh)


That's what I did.

Thanks all (Astral"Cloud" ;-} as well)

Reducing the reading speed may help to go further in secure mode without errors.

Well, my post wasn't supposed to be a troll, but...

'Secure mode can't rip' can mean:
1. tries (nearly) infinitely to correct an error
2. something else

1. The CD is very damaged. Try:
- another drive (friends can be helpful),
- reducing correction quality in options (number of rereads),
- reducing speed
- burst mode with highest speed - then listen to the copy for errors
- wait a very long time, maybe it will get corrected (don't forget to set the option in EAC to cool down the drive or it might get damaged)
2. File a bug report.

Hmmm ... try a trick ... create a cue with EAC (offsets correctly set cause plextools do automatic offset correction) and rip the cd to a single track with plextools ... rename the track afterwards so it fits into the cue and burn it away ...

How do I do this, I seem to find only the option to create .pxi or rip as audio CD (wav for each track)...