Originally Posted by
wallewek
Thanks, yes, a different drive does seem to help, and if I'm cleaning a CD, I'll use alcohol screen/lens wipes. One thing that might surprise you is that Armor All "protectant" sometimes help on CDs, somewhat like the plastic polish in the CD repair kits.
But I was actually also looking for tips on using the CD Ripper settings. For example, it seems like the Burst mode usually produces a usable rip even if it says it's "inaccurate", but if I change the ripping method (WHY can't I select that on a per-track recovery basis?) to Secure and re-rip the track, and it overwrites the output, and the retry says it's going to take hours and probably still fail, then I've lost the previous better-than-nothing rip.
It's kinda a big waste of time when I'm ripping a lot of CDs. It's like I need to run them all in burst mode, than go back and switch to Secure only for the ones that fail, because if I pick Secure to start with and it's taking an hour on that track, and I abort the secure rip, I get bupkiss. There's gotta be a better way!