Originally Posted by
Oggy
Yes, different drives can work wonders, (ask your work colleagues for them, before they dump their PCs!), but the last track or two are also the more likely to have fingerprints, especially if the disc has ever been used in a slot loader. A gentle clean, can sometimes work wonders.
If I'm paying attention, and the first pass has given multiple errors, I tend to stop the rip and clean the disc. If the result is still the same, I try another drive. If it's an obvious scratch, I have on occasion attempted a more dramatic repair.
Luckily this occurs on only around 3% of my discs.
As you can get an Innacurate rip with only a few frames with errors, often these errors are inaudible.