speed problems on audiograbber

[Zilla Bailey]

I'm trying to get tracks off my cds and turn them into mp3s, but dammit,
audiograbber leaves heaps of nasty great skips, which it euphemistically
calls "speed problems". How do I stop the bastards?

[Anon]

Zilla Bailey wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get tracks off my cds and turn them into mp3s, but dammit,
> audiograbber leaves heaps of nasty great skips, which it euphemistically
> calls "speed problems".

There is one program within windozeland that is not in too
much of a hurry to check its work: Exact Audio Copy. EAC
does its best to verify its Digital Audio Extractions. If
your hardware can read the disc and get the same results
twice in a row (w/retries), EAC will retrieve the data
correctly for you. If not, or if it takes forever to do
so, you may need a drive that is better suited to doing DAE.

Make sure you take the time to configure EAC for your
drive(s) -- it's worth it.
http://www.ping.be/satcp/eacoffsets01.shtml

There are, rarely, damaged/defective discs that are playable
but not readable. EAC will have lots of trouble trying to
read an unreadable disc -- more than most other programs. But
EAC has other (non-"secure") modes that'll "rip" data from
such discs as well as any other, less-comprehensive program
(and still report all suspicious positions).

The latest release (pb10) of EAC is about 4 days old, and (as
with the past few even-numbered releases!) seems to be a bit
more flawed than it should be (I haven't tried it; this is
from the EAC forum...), so you might want to hold off trying
it for another day or three... OTOH, the new rel supposedly
offers a direct/automated database tie-in for drive settings,
which should help newbies set up the pgm for their hdwe, so
they can more quickly and easily obtain perfect DAE results.

EAC can replace other windoze programs, but other windoze
programs cannot replace EAC if you care about doing highest-
quality DAE. It also can record (sample), edit ID3 tags, and
compare/compress/edit WAV files. Add LAME v3.88 and you have
all you really need to create the highest-quality MP3s.

EAC is postcardware, and requires no 'traditional' windoze
installation: just unzip it to somewhere and launch it...

http://ExactAudioCopy.de

[Dariusz Baumann]

> There is one program within windozeland that is not in too
> much of a hurry to check its work: Exact Audio Copy. EAC
> does its best to verify its Digital Audio Extractions.

EAC is the best? Lastest version didn't detect my two cdrom drive! :-))

Dariusz Baumann

[Anon]

Gee, I sure wish I'd remembered to mention that the latest
release isn't perfect:

> > The latest release (pb10) of EAC is about 4 days old, and (as
> > with the past few even-numbered releases!) seems to be a bit
> > more flawed than it should be (I haven't tried it; this is
> > from the EAC forum...), so you might want to hold off trying
> > it for another day or three...

...so we didn't have to see cracks such as "Lastest version didn't
detect my two cdrom drive" here in this NG.

EAC is absolutely, positively, without question, The Best there
is in Bill's World when it comes to doing DAE. The 22JUN01 release
is not, and has become the 3rd even-numbered release in a row that
I never ever even tried.

I just checked. It's already 27JUN01 in Germany, and the next
release (pb11) has already been released. As soon as bleeding
edge early adopters such as yourself tell me it's OK, I'll stop
using pb9, which works great for me...

[Afro Ozzie]

Try Cd'n'Go
Download from http://www.cdngo.com/

"Zilla Bailey" <nos...@viking.net> wrote in message
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[Jackie]

Set it to Dynamic synch width under General settings. Or set it to rip to a
temporary wave file and use the "Rip to RAM" option under General settings,
ASPI.
This problem has to do with your CD-ROM drive and not directly with
Audiograbber. The above settings will however fix it. A better CD-ROM drive
would not generate this problem.

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[Buckman Austin]

Hello,

The problem goes deeper than that. I've had these same speed problems
when I record through "line in" and also "stereo mixer". I've tried
various bitrate settings, and sometimes it works- and sometimes it
doesn't. Except for that, Audiograbber would be a great encoding
program.

Buck

[Dr. Sharewell]

Howdy

Hoenstly it has more to do with all the junk your running along side
it. Downloading and surfing and so on make it run poorly. I am sure
that your CPU speed affects your ripping as well. So make sure you
update the aspi layer and don't have anything else going on.