Originally Posted by
pangit
ShrinerMonkey, I agree with you and have had the same concerns and frustrations. I often have to use EAC to rip a problematic track that dBpoweramp won't seem to handle. What always happens to me with these - even though I have also set mine NOT to abort in case of errors - is that the resulting unplayable file has a very small size, typically only a few kilobytes. So I go into EAC, and in every case (and there have been many) I've been able to get the track ripped that dBpoweramp wouldn't encode. I rip it to a WAV, and then use dBpoweramp to encode it to a FLAC.
Incidentally, after reading Spoon's comment about using version 13.2 (which supposedly should encode even in the case of errors), I upgraded to that version today, and then tried re-ripping a disc I know to be problematic. Same exact results - the problem track produced a useless 15Kb file, so I had to rip it with EAC. The problem track did NOT encode successfully.
I also agree that EAC's feature of allowing you to listen to potential problem spots after a track rips with errors is extremely useful, and I really wish dBpoweramp did something like that.
I love dBpoweramp overall, but this aspect of it does frustrate me quite a bit. :cry: