CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

[Spoon]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Your drive is dead...a clicking repeating noise is normally the head not being able to track the disc.

The 2013 list is here, I close this thread as it has been replaced:

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...racy-List-2013

[ijarvile]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Greetings Spoon,

I need your guidance and help:

1) I have Matshita UJ-812B drive and used only for 50 hours or so. Suddenly it quit working, Device Manager OK, it tries to start-up giving "repeating tickling noise", but without any success? You have a longer experience with drives, could you point me which direction to look at and solve this issue. The all help is highly appreciated!

2) If I cannot get this accurate drive to work, I would need your recommendation between two plextor drives to choose from: Plextor PX-B310U vs. Plextor PX-610U, Which one you would recommend to go for it in case of Matshita drive will not start-up? Other drives? Which is known as reliable and with a good accuracy, not best I know, but this is getting frustrated with Matshita as It is a brand new and quit working after 50 hours?! And paid a lot of money about the drive and quits after 50 hours which was just executed as break-in period for electrical components.

Thank you for the all help you all are able to give for this topic.

Best regards,


Ilkka

[Ucodia]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Hi Spoon,

Are you going to publish the accuracy list for 2013?

Thanks for the great work, last year list was really useful.

[bhoar]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

bhoar: Yes it is possible to depress the results by ripping damaged discs, but you would have to have 100's of scratched different discs.

Ok, well, I have at over 100 unique scratched discs that I use full time for testing in burst mode (and maybe a handful of unique non-scratched ones). These were all the CDs I didn't give to the used CD shop down the block because they were too damaged even for the scratch and dent bin...

Oops! Oh well. :/

Thanks for the clarification.

Brendan

[Spoon]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

The top 30 drives are all very good, when ripping you sometimes need a couple of different drives...

bhoar: Yes it is possible to depress the results by ripping damaged discs, but you would have to have 100's of scratched different discs.

[bhoar]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

A clarification query for Spoon:

I run a lot of the same test CDs in burst mode over and over again (100s of rips, sometimes 1000s per week) through the Kodak units with Teac CD-W552DA drives. The discs are comprised mostly slightly to heavily scratched CDs. This is part of my certification of the units for sale.

Does the drive accuracy ranking assume that the quality of discs fed to all discs is approximately the same? If so, have I been artificially depressing the accuracy ranking for this drive?

Brendan

[Krister]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Hi Spoon,

Is Drive: MATSHITA - DVD-R UJ-85J the best CD/DVD drive? I Am thinking of buying one that is the best and have most of Accurate Rip but I need you help. Please tell me more.

[sithodea]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Hello.
I shall like knowing what is at present the best CD/DVD Drive available on the sale (compatible Rive Read Cach).

My PIONEER CD/DVD Drive is not detect Rive Read Cach....

[Carson Dyle]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Yeah, most of these lists are badly outdated.

If you had that much trouble finding CDs to set up AccurateRip, I expect you'll also have a fairly poor hit percentage when you go to rip your CD collection. I have a lot of older CDs, jazz and classical and my success rate is well under 20%.

[Krusty]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Okay. Finally is my internal Bluray drive (ASUS BW-14D1XT) set up for Accuraterip. I had to give EAC approximately 15 cd's before it was set up, and the Accuraterip logo in the buttom was displayed. The minimum numbers of cd's to calculate the offset should be only 3. So I guess I was just unluckly I had to feed EAC with 15, before it was complete.

The calculated offset for this drive was +6 samples,+24 bytes. Just in case some other member, or googler should come across this info. Best to set up according to accuraterip guide, and feed EAC with cd's like I did. Then Accuraterip will automatic be turn on (enabled) and the Accuraterip logo showed in the buttom. And your log-files, will have Accuraterip info added to them for each track. Like this:
"Accurately ripped (confidence 19) [F7E0DA50] (AR v2)"

I used the cd list from http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/inde...reference-cds/ to set up EAC. I guess the list is outdated, because I got the offset calculation and accuraterip done, with John Mayer's "Continuum" (2006) and it's not on this list.

I just found out, that a newer list is on http://www.accuraterip.com/keydiscs.htm. But with 1 million key-disc in accuraterip database (now automaticly updated), you don't really have to look at the list, unless you have a very speciel cd-collection with rare bands/musicians. But for most people, whey could just feed EAC with CD's, and chances for matching key-discs in your collection should be there.

Thanks. Happy (accuraterip) ripping everyone. :smile2:

[Krusty]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

/action hitting myself with a hammer...
Sorry for being such a newbie. But I had configurated everything before according to the accuraterip guide...with my old DVD drive. But had only starred blind on the offset tab, and that offset number, with my new BluRay ASUS BW-14D1XT (1.00). And had not gone through all the drive settings with this new drive. So EAC had ripped the CD's too fast according to the Accuraterip standard. And therefore I got a lot of timing problems. But I should have set everything up according to the accuraterip guide. But the "use accuraterip" function is greyed out for now. But I guess it will be enabled after I have ripped some more CD's. Or other users have ripped CD's with a drive like mine. And uploaded their results.
I read something about enable the "Use AccurateRip" function in the registry, but I don't know, if that's only for older versions of EAC. Or somehow a last desperate atempt if the function doesn't automaticly going "enabled" instead of greyed out, after a couple of CD rips???

[Krusty]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Keep feeding it discs and accurate rip will eventually configure.

Okay. Thanks. I'm testing now R.E.M. "UP" (1998) (Barcode: 9362-47112-2) and got +6 again in offset, so it seems that the offset might be around that number. And I had timing problems again with my third rip, on almost all of the tracks. But I will keep feeding it with CD's.

Could the timing problems also be caused by some minor cratches in the discs? They have a few tiny ones, but the R.E.M. disc was almost perfect.
Or is it mostly caused by a wrong or not yet perfected offset number? Or some other factors, that the drive have some minor problems, a new firmware will perhaps fix some day?

[dbfan]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

Keep feeding it discs and accurate rip will eventually configure.

[Krusty]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

I think I got it now. Or on the right path. I was looking at the reference CD list at http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/inde...reference-cds/ that should be the list of reference CD's or key-disk, that EAC is using. I guess that's why I could not find a key-CD, because the CD-list is a bit old. But I had Depeche Mode "Songs Of Faith And Devotion" (1993) (CD STUMM 106) (Barcode: 391946 075072) in my cd-rack. And in EAC I was in "Drive Option"-Off-set/Speed and pressed "Detect read sample offset correction", and got +665 for this drive and CD.
But after the rip was done, I could see in the log, that I had some timing problems for some tracks.
I tried again with Garbage "Garbage" (1995) (Mushroom Records) (In the Barcode: 7 4321-29597-2 7, and underneath F:BM650 IC:4917) that was on the reference CD-list. And this time, I got +6 in the offset test. But after the rip was done, I still had some timing problems in the rip log from EAC.
What is the best to do, in order to set up my new BlyRay drive correctly, and avoid timing problems, and have the best possible rips?

[Krusty]

Re: CD/DVD Drive Accuracy List 2012

I have just bought a brand new BluRay internal drive. It's ASUS BW-14D1XT. I Rip my CD's to FLAC using EAC. I tried ripping several of my CD's, well I was not starting ripping the CD's, because I could see, that I could not get EAC to verify a key-disk. And then it hit me, that my drive could be so brand new, that nobody else, or not many had been using AccurateRip settings with this drive. What is the best for me to do right now? Just start ripping with the AccurateRip setting with my drive without a key-disk, and without offset for my drive? I guess that's the downside buying brand new things, that not many have tested before. Any suggestings?