[paranoia] poor quality & glitches - all tracks on CD show unreported loss of streaming

[Rob Allegar]

I had this *exact* problem too. +++++ all the way through and the audio
sounds clipped every few seconds.

Turns out that my DMA setting on my drive was bad. Well, so I thought. I
originally had 2 CD-ROM drives in my machine, ripped CDS for a while
perfectly for several months. One day I took one of my drives out and
ever since had problems with any ripping program. I checked master/slave
settings, the IDE cable, everything. For some reason, even though DMA
was set correctly and Linux was picking it up my cds could not be
ripped. I put the other CD back in, and everything went back to normal
and now I can rip consistantly without any errors.

Over the course of about 2 weeks I tried every combination of cable
setting, jumper setting, and CD-ROM positioning, and I *could not* get
cdparanoia to work unless I had *both* cd-rom drives installed. 

My primary CD-ROM is a TDK 32/10/10 which has worked flawlessly since.
But I still have an extra cheapo no-name 52x drive which basically sits
there. If I take it out my TDK stops working and I get all ++++ again
even though its in DMA mode.

Maybe someone on the list has a technical reason for why this is
happening, but I'd hazard a guess that maybe you recently changed your
hardware configuration on your machine.

Rob

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:45, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Hi All
> I've been using cdparanoia for months now for ripping several hundred 
> cds. I'm trying to rip a new CD now and during cdparanoia's run on 
> making the wav files, it reports +++++ continuously for every song.
> 
> This is using the latest 9.8 version under linux.
> 
> Anyway the resulting wav files have something that sounds like a kind of 
> tick or click or tut every 10 seconds or so - I'm not sure how to 
> describe it, but it's some sort of error in the ripping obviously.
> 
> I'm running cdparanoia with the -z option that forces it not to skip any 
> errors, but I guess it doesn't help. I've tried it with the -Z option 
> too but with no luck.
> 
> The CD has some stupid virus on it to load in Windows and stop ripping, 
> but that shouldn't affect me like this, should it?
> 
> BTW I get worse results with cdda2wav. And on my newer PC with a newer 
> cd rom drive, it takes about 5 times longer.
> 
> Can anyone give me some help here?

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