Long Running Rips

[mcraghead]

I'm on a crusade to rip my entire CD collection, about 1500 or 2000 discs I would imagine, maybe more. I'm only 151 into the process. Anyway, I've noticed on at least a couple of occasions that some of the CDs take hours to rip. I had one that took over three hours, then another hour or two to re-rip the failed rips. I'm ripping another disc now and it's been 3.5 hours and it's only on the third track, though most of that time has been on a single track. What are the causes of a long running rip?

Thank you.

[Spoon]

The program is trying to recover the CD, you can shorten the recovery time by changing the settings on the secure page, such as to abort after any unrecoverable errors, or to read less (if you have ultra secure enabled disable it).

[garym]

Ive ripped over 5,000 CDs. Might have been a 100 or so with such problems. Often using a different drive for ripping those CDs solved things.

[GBrown]

What are the causes of a long running rip?
Thank you.

The easy fixes are to make sure the discs are clean before you start the rip. A bit of polish can help those that may have had some extra use in the past. Any that have spent some time moonlighting as a drink coaster at a party or two may need some extra work.

Then there are thise that seem to suffer from "disc rot" that are much tougher to deal with. Essentially this is a manufacturing issue where the physical inner layer of the media is breaking down. Out of about 800 or so discs from my personal library I have about a dozen that appear to be in pristine condition yet refuse to rip in any drive accurately. I found replacements for most although in two separate cases even the replacements had similar issues. I would just set the ones that are difficult aside and get through the bulk of your discs. Then work on the troublemakers later.

[mcraghead]

Ive ripped over 5,000 CDs. Might have been a 100 or so with such problems. Often using a different drive for ripping those CDs solved things.

5,000 CDs? Wow! that is a serious undertaking. That must have taken forever. I've been at my effort for about a week and I still haven't hit 200.

[mcraghead]

Spoon GBrown Thanks for the information. I appreciate the input.

[garym]

5,000 CDs? Wow! that is a serious undertaking. That must have taken forever. I've been at my effort for about a week and I still haven't hit 200.

Probably 3000 were ripped twice. :-(
Early on I didnt know any better and ripped to mp3. I eventually reripped those to FLAC (i did the last 1000 of those when stuck at home during COVID). I did a lot of ripping in the background while doing other work. Id get a stack of 20 to 40 CDs for the day and rip, clean up metadata etc. for the last 15 or so years I simply rip immediately upon acquiring a new CD. And I now try to purchase lossless downloads when available instead of CDs. I dont want any more physical product!

at 200 per week, you would have 5000 ripped in 6 months!

[mcraghead]

Probably 3000 were ripped twice. :-(
Early on I didnt know any better and ripped to mp3. I eventually reripped those to FLAC (i did the last 1000 of those when stuck at home during COVID). I did a lot of ripping in the background while doing other work. Id get a stack of 20 to 40 CDs for the day and rip, clean up metadata etc. for the last 15 or so years I simply rip immediately upon acquiring a new CD. And I now try to purchase lossless downloads when available instead of CDs. I dont want any more physical product!

at 200 per week, you would have 5000 ripped in 6 months!

I too have ripped multiple times. I never ripped them all, but I did maybe 500 altogether. Unfortunately I did it in AAC. Plus, that drive failed, so I would have had to do them over again anyway. Those I did a little at a time.

Thanks for the info.