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CD Ripping with EAC causing sound glitches

Hi Everybody,

I have been archiving my CDs for a few years now using Exact Audio Copy - no issues. The last batch of CDs I had converted to WAV had a weird sound glitch - not sure what it's professionally called but it kind of sounds like electrical 'sparks/clicks', I'm sure you all know what I mean.
I tried a few times and nothing helped, so I downloaded AnyBurn and tried with that. Most of the CDs now sound fine, except for one - The Mandrake Project by Bruce Dickinson (2024). Regardless of the software I use or the file format I try (tried FLAC too), the sparks persist every time I rip the CD. I'm at my wits' end.

I have reinstalled EAC and the problem persists. Any help would be hugely appreciated!  O:)

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Reply #1 –
Most likely, CD is defective. In the past there existed some so called "copy-protection" methods, where "copy-protection" was achieved by just writing intentionally corrupted data on CD. But i doubt they are used in 2024.
You can try to rip in burst mode and see if this makes any difference.

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Thanks for replying. Could you please elaborate on the 'rip in burst mode'? How do I do that?

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Reply #3 –
In menu go to EAC->Drive Options->Extraction method and set to "Burst mode". Then rip.
If it will appear that you actually did your previous rips in burst mode, then vice versa try do it in Secure mode this time.

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Reply #4 –
Unfortunately, the same issue. I've been thinking, and I did change my Processor & RAM since the last time I ripped things, but the other CDs from the latest batch seem to have been ripped correctly on the second try. Could hardware changes affect SOME CDs?
I might just Torrent the digital back-up copy at this point, but it would be good to know if I might come across this issue in the future.

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What's the AccurateRip/CTDB status of the rips?

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Could hardware changes affect SOME CDs?

Definitely, if the CD has a defect.  I get problems using a specific USB optical drive on a low-powered netbook which do not appear with a different USB optical drive, but I never get problems with my old Win7 Pentium notebook with built-in optical drive (unless the CD is practically unrippable).  What the exact cause is I don't know, but potential causes are processing speed, USB data rate, USB power delivery, and capability of the drive itself.

What I'm saying is the hardware can affect the outcome, not that it necessarily will.
It's your privilege to disagree, but that doesn't make you right and me wrong.

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Quote from: metallfan_pl on
Could hardware changes affect SOME CDs?
The CD drive could, and that is hardware. But you didn't mention that.

(I am not sure if drivers could be an issue.)

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Reply #8 –
CUETools has a repair function that may be able to repair the data (if the CD is in the database).

Or Audacity (a free audio editor) has a couple of tools can can sometimes remove clicks and pops.  It can't restore the exact original data but it can often fix the sound.

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I might just Torrent the digital back-up copy at this point
Sometimes I've bought the MP3 from Amazon.   Usually it's only one song on a CD.  Of course, MP3 is lossy but it's better than having a click or skip, etc., and it often sounds identical to the original.

Or if the CD sounds OK when played, another option is to record the CD.  (Digital-to-analog-to-digital.)   CD players and player software is often better at "error hiding" than ripping applications.  (Of course the digital data is different/)

If you have a perfect rip, AccuateRip can confirm the data so you don't have to check by listening.  Not all data errors are audible, and you can ignore them if you can't hear them.    That's happened to me a few times but it doesn't take me much time to forget which CDs had reported errors and I don't worry about it.

AccureateRip
AccurateRip and EAC

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I've been thinking, and I did change my Processor & RAM since the last time I ripped things,
If you were getting data errors from the processor or RAM, EVERYTHING on your computer would be fouled-up and the operating system would probably crash, etc.

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Regardless of the software I use or the file format I try (tried FLAC too), the sparks persist every time I rip the CD. I'm at my wits' end.
Yeah...  The data is corrupted/wrong before it's compressed.