Re: Poikosoft Easy CD-DA Extractor 15.3.2.1 Download
Viva Allor
I seem to be able to rip these CDs in iTunes, but always they end up with skips and other horrible errors. So for now I keep these discs aside, thinking I'd deal with them later. 21 discs in my 'un-ripable' stack I realize all but one disc are so called 'enhanced' CDs. Is there any connection to that or is it shear chance? Can anyone help me out by telling me what to do? I have tried; cleaning the discs (both with water and some horrible gadgets I've bought), different cd/dvd drives (both cheap and very high end), and different rip software (see above) with all the variable settings before I ask this question.
"You can rip Enhanced CDs using any standard CD ripper - an excellent FREE one that I use called CDex ( ) will display a list of all the tracks on the disc, and what type of track they are - audio or data.
The Enhanced content appears after all of the audio tracks, as a final Data track. To rip an Enhanced CD, all you have to do is just select all of the Audio tracks, and leave the Data track out, then rip the CD as you would a normal one. "
How a Digital Audio file sounds, or a Digital Video file looks, is governed to a large extent by the Power Supply area. All that Identical Checksums gives is the possibility of REGENERATING the file to close to that of the original file.
Exact Audio Copy should work (download here). I've even used it on enhanced (data + audio) and copy protected audio CDs and it still ripped them fine. Be sure to use the Shift-key trick Allan mentions.
When EAC starts, it will list the audio tracks and the data track. To retrieve the song names, click the icon that looks like a CD (right of the eject icon) and click 'Yes'. Select the audio tracks you want, then click the WAV CD->HDD icon on the left. "
I have a new MacBook Pro, a 24" iMac (last years model) and a MacBook(late 2007). I use various external drives ranging from a 50 euro Samsung to a 300+ euro Plextor... I have this problem on all hardware (at least with the 20 or so discs mentioned) so I'm not sure if it's really hardware related (?) Are you and your wife's Macs on the same OS?
I don't know if this one can be an option for you (as I am a PC user) but I found this software several years ago,and is very useful for everything ripping, converting and also burning; this can rip copy-controlled CD's its called "CD-DA extractor" the website is:
is very simple to use, has a high error correction, supports cue sheets, supports several extensiion files lossless, compressed or uncompressed, lossy ones almost all of them. I have ripped many Cd's that are copy controlled or protected and they sound great, easy, simple. You can download the free trial for 2 weeks and you can use the full features, then you will have to pay, yet it's a life-time purchase and you get all the future versions free. Hope this helps.
I actually know and used that software in the past. It's great, but I'm no longer using windows. For now I'm looking for ways to keep things like that, but I might have to change my mind and buy windows 7 one of these days
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