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Hi I'm a new owner of the dbpoweramp software, and I am going up the learning curve on ripping my CD collection. Everything worked OK with my Apple M1 and Apple drive, but then I updated the drive to a very nice OWC drive so I could benefit from a drive that supports C2 Error detection, pointers, etc. (I'm still learning about all this). I had some disc rips that were successful but took 12-24 hours each. I adjusted the settings, and now each disc rip is failing. Any pointers for a newbie of things to trouble shoot in the settings and/or the drive itself? Thanks!
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Often I've found that even drives that say they support C2 error detection don't really work properly. Untick 'use C2 error" in the dbpoweramp settings for these drives and try again. Keep in mind that with AccurateRip it really doesn't matter much what drive you use or whether it supports C2, etc. -
Many, possibly most, drives that claim to support C2 error detection don't or don't do it properly. I gave up on that long ago. I use secure ripping with accuraterip. I also have an assortment of old drives, some salvaged from junked PCs. Some difficult CDs will rip fine in one but not another. I have a favorite brand for ripping slightly damaged CDs error and rerip free, but they tend to be slow, and can sometimes grind to nearly a halt with more seriously damaged CDs. Other drives I have will read the slightly damaged (often scratches) CDs with errors but read the heavily damaged CDs with some inaudible errors but not grind to a halt
I'd turn off the C2 error detection and check your results. If the track is in accuraterip and the rip matches the accuraterip checksum, you are good to go, your rip is perfect. If you get some errors, first try another drive or two, if still errors, listen to the ripped track, there is a good chance the error is inaudible.
If the disc isn't in accuraterip and you have secure ripping turned on and set to reasonable settings, if the rip passes as secure, your probability of having a perfect rip is very high, you are good to go. If you can't get a secure rip, it tries rerips successfully, and you try more than one drive and still get successful rerips, you are probably OK. I've had many cases where with discs not in accuraterip (I have many foreign CDs not in mass circulation), dPpa "successfully" completes rerips but the checksums don't match in different drives, which means in actuality you don't have a bit perfect rip, but in almost all cases, the rip is good enough that any errors are inaudible. Good enough for me.
If the disc is really bad, audible errors in any drive, try to find another copy (used on eBay or such is fine) to rip. I even know people who have captured streams from one of the streaming services. (that, of course, will typically be so-so mp3ish quality, but in many cases should be good enough if you cant' find another CD to rip.
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Thank you garym and schmidj!Comment
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