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First off, I've been a very happy dBpoweramp customer for years, so this is in no way a criticism, just something that really confuses me.
Got a used CD yesterday. No visible damage. Fired up dBpoweramp and successfully ripped the first 15 of the 16 tracks. Track 16 gave it fits, needing to re-rip 10,000+ sectors. It ran all night and into this morning, finally concluding with an inaccurate rip. Listening to the track revealed some very obvious problems.
Played the offending track off the CD in Foobar2000, just curious what would happen if it got played normally. No audible problems at all.
So, knowing I wouldn't get any error correction, I used Foobar2000 to rip the track. The results were even worse than what dBpoweramp produced. Very obvious audible problems for what I think was an even longer stretch.
Having nothing to lose, I tried the same track in Exact Audio Copy. Instant perfection the first time through, AccurateRip verified, blah blah blah. Couldn't believe it. Since I had forgotten to turn on logging, I did it again with the log turned on and got the same happy results. Listening to the track revealed no problems at all.
I've never seen that before...in desperate past situations I've tried EAC for tracks that dBpoweramp didn't like, but it's always been a waste of time--if dBpa can't read it accurately, neither can EAC. I'm at a complete loss and am wondering if maybe something's actually intermittently wrong with my drive but just coincidentally worked when I used EAC.
OK, prior to posting I just tried the same track again in dBpoweramp...and it worked perfectly on the first attempt. Must be the drive. But it still seems really odd. Or something about the disc is really, really temperature sensitive. Or it's the phase of the moon...
Got a used CD yesterday. No visible damage. Fired up dBpoweramp and successfully ripped the first 15 of the 16 tracks. Track 16 gave it fits, needing to re-rip 10,000+ sectors. It ran all night and into this morning, finally concluding with an inaccurate rip. Listening to the track revealed some very obvious problems.
Played the offending track off the CD in Foobar2000, just curious what would happen if it got played normally. No audible problems at all.
So, knowing I wouldn't get any error correction, I used Foobar2000 to rip the track. The results were even worse than what dBpoweramp produced. Very obvious audible problems for what I think was an even longer stretch.
Having nothing to lose, I tried the same track in Exact Audio Copy. Instant perfection the first time through, AccurateRip verified, blah blah blah. Couldn't believe it. Since I had forgotten to turn on logging, I did it again with the log turned on and got the same happy results. Listening to the track revealed no problems at all.
I've never seen that before...in desperate past situations I've tried EAC for tracks that dBpoweramp didn't like, but it's always been a waste of time--if dBpa can't read it accurately, neither can EAC. I'm at a complete loss and am wondering if maybe something's actually intermittently wrong with my drive but just coincidentally worked when I used EAC.
OK, prior to posting I just tried the same track again in dBpoweramp...and it worked perfectly on the first attempt. Must be the drive. But it still seems really odd. Or something about the disc is really, really temperature sensitive. Or it's the phase of the moon...
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