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I've been using dBpoweramp for a bit over a month now. Had enough success during the trial to convince me to purchase the software and keep plugging away at my collection. The drive that I had been using through the first couple hundred discs was a DVD burner by Lite-On, a couple of years old, and it was set up pretty much immediately and had very little issues. CDs in the AccurateRip database were quickly ripped in one pass, with the exception of a couple of discs, which I was convinced were newer pressings. Discs not in the database ripped Secure, with only a couple of tracks needing to re-rip a few frames. I have several somewhat obscure discs not in the database, but as they were ripping securely with no warnings or errors, I feel confident these are great rips. Things were going swimmingly over a couple hundred discs. Then my drive started to really whine and make a lot of noise, sounded like it was just plain wearing out, so I ordered a new Lite-On hoping I might headoff a major problem (and finally make the switch from IDE to SATA) and continue on with the same results.
So I've now got a Lite-On iHAS422-08 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106280), which I believe is a fairly new model (might have some kinks to be worked out) and I'm having a much different experience. It took about 30 or more tries at Key discs to get the offsets recognized, using popular discs found in the AccurateRip database (some I remember with 200 confidence the first time I ran them through on my old drive). Also, now that I'm ripping again I'm having to re-rip a few frames on many tracks. Sometimes a disc will go through without issue, others I'll have one or even four or five random tracks that have frames that need to re-rip. I'd say maybe 1 in 3 discs or so are having to re-rip frames on at least one track. Eventually the track will be concluded Accurate (if in the database) or Secure (but with warnings of re-ripped frames) after being kicked into ultra secure, but I'm assuming this drive is junk and is just not consistently ripping discs. I have tried re-ripping a track to see if it would have to re-rip the same frames again, but the track ripped without issue, which heightens my suspicion. Also, 99% of my discs are flawless, having only ever been out of the case to be ripped to mp3 once and now again to flac. I would also be shocked if out of some strange coincidence I'm just now getting to a stack in my collection that just so happens to have more pressing errors.
I was just wondering if some folks might have opinions on a tweak I need to try or whether I should RMA this drive for a replacement of the same model, or if a safe bet would be to roll back to a different model altogether. This one is a lightscribe model, a feature which I'll likely never use, and I've kinda always felt like unnecessary features might just make for more things to go wrong. Thanks for any input, guys, and I look forward to finishing up my archival project with dBPoweramp.
I've been using dBpoweramp for a bit over a month now. Had enough success during the trial to convince me to purchase the software and keep plugging away at my collection. The drive that I had been using through the first couple hundred discs was a DVD burner by Lite-On, a couple of years old, and it was set up pretty much immediately and had very little issues. CDs in the AccurateRip database were quickly ripped in one pass, with the exception of a couple of discs, which I was convinced were newer pressings. Discs not in the database ripped Secure, with only a couple of tracks needing to re-rip a few frames. I have several somewhat obscure discs not in the database, but as they were ripping securely with no warnings or errors, I feel confident these are great rips. Things were going swimmingly over a couple hundred discs. Then my drive started to really whine and make a lot of noise, sounded like it was just plain wearing out, so I ordered a new Lite-On hoping I might headoff a major problem (and finally make the switch from IDE to SATA) and continue on with the same results.
So I've now got a Lite-On iHAS422-08 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106280), which I believe is a fairly new model (might have some kinks to be worked out) and I'm having a much different experience. It took about 30 or more tries at Key discs to get the offsets recognized, using popular discs found in the AccurateRip database (some I remember with 200 confidence the first time I ran them through on my old drive). Also, now that I'm ripping again I'm having to re-rip a few frames on many tracks. Sometimes a disc will go through without issue, others I'll have one or even four or five random tracks that have frames that need to re-rip. I'd say maybe 1 in 3 discs or so are having to re-rip frames on at least one track. Eventually the track will be concluded Accurate (if in the database) or Secure (but with warnings of re-ripped frames) after being kicked into ultra secure, but I'm assuming this drive is junk and is just not consistently ripping discs. I have tried re-ripping a track to see if it would have to re-rip the same frames again, but the track ripped without issue, which heightens my suspicion. Also, 99% of my discs are flawless, having only ever been out of the case to be ripped to mp3 once and now again to flac. I would also be shocked if out of some strange coincidence I'm just now getting to a stack in my collection that just so happens to have more pressing errors.
I was just wondering if some folks might have opinions on a tweak I need to try or whether I should RMA this drive for a replacement of the same model, or if a safe bet would be to roll back to a different model altogether. This one is a lightscribe model, a feature which I'll likely never use, and I've kinda always felt like unnecessary features might just make for more things to go wrong. Thanks for any input, guys, and I look forward to finishing up my archival project with dBPoweramp.