[Paranoia] CD drive stuttering problem

[Chris]

I reported the problem a while back that some of my CDs ripping would 
slow to a crawl half way through (like a week to rip one CD) and the 
resulting qualtity was bad.  I'm noticing that the current version of 
RealPlayer ripper works fine with these CDs, so I've had to abandon 
paranoia.


Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:

> I'm having a problem with my drive during cdparanoia rips. I'm on a 
> Dell Inspiron 5150 with a Philips DVD+RW SDVD6004 and using cdparanoia 
> III r9.8 on Gentoo.
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> I find that sometimes when I rip a CD, the drive "hiccups" somewhere 
> in the process, and any digital playback after this point consists of 
> a stuttering representation of the song instead of the song itself. 
> Every ripped song after this point is usually empty, but sometimes 
> will contains the stuttering sounds. I can still use the drive, but 
> any normal DAE playback is impossible until I reboot the computer.
>
> I've also found that this happens much more regularly (i.e. almost 
> every attempt) when I try to rip a particular song from the CD 
> (usually the song that triggered the problem in the first place) 
> instead of ripping the entire CD over again.
>
> The latest occurance happened with my Linkin Park CD. I tried ripping 
> the entire CD using grip, but the problem happened half-way into the 
> second-to-last track. I rebooted, and tried again with only the last 
> two tracks. The problem happened almost immediately. Another reboot, 
> and I tried the same tracks again, this time with "Extra Paranoia" 
> turned off. Same problem. Another reboot, this time with "Use 
> Paranoia" turned off. Same problem.
>
> This is somewhat different from previous encounters I've had with this 
> issue, when switching off various level of paranoia would fix it.
>
> http://ballsome.com/sample.mp3 is a demonstration of what I'm hearing. 
> This one is unusual because it captures the stuttering sound. Usually, 
> the rest of the track will be silent, but every DAE playback after the 
> attempt will produce the stuttering.
>
> This problem is also described and demonstrated at 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59464
>
> Can anyone think of what may be the problem here?
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