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I recently reformated my hard drive and reinstalled the converter. Ever since, all my rips to WMA Lossless 9.1 have either small "pops & clicks" artifacts and worse skipping occurs in many of the songs. I've never had this problem before. Any suggestions???
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Re: Problems w/WMA Ripping
Go into your System Properties from the Control Panel, click on the Hardware tab, click "Device Manager" and then select your Primary and Secondary IDE controller. On one of the tabs, you have an option for "DMA if available" or "PIO Only" for both the Master and Slave device on each controller. Make sure they are set to "DMA if available". If you cannot select this and this is the secondary IDE controller, close the properties window, uninstall the Secondary IDE controller, then click the Action menu on the top, and then click "Scan for hardware changes." This should redetect your Secondary IDE controller and should now be set to "DMA if available".
Why did this happen? Most likely, it was due to a "feature" of Windows XP that drops your CD Drive to PIO Mode if there are a lot of read errors on a particular CD.
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Re: Problems w/WMA Ripping
First, Thank You sooo much! I had previously read Spoon's thread about doing the very same thing, which I did, or thought I had. I have two hard drives in my computer a Samsung (primary) and Western Digital (secondary). I use the latter as my primary and the other is not even formatted, consequently cannot be read and does not show up in my system. Apparently, it does show up in Device Manager and I had only checked to ensure that that one was DMA. So, after your post, I went back again decided to look at the secondary and then only realized it told which one was which and had to change the Western Digital.
All's well now.
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