[Paranoia] Ripping physically scratched CD's

[Michael_OF]

Hi Monti, Carter and "grarpamp",


thank you very much for your kind answers and hints for my request.

I agree to all of you that repairing the CDDAs or at least trying to repair would for sure guarantee the best possible
ripping results.

But my question was more on the software side, not "hardware". I've tried to understand why a rip WITH error correction
etc. hangs, and a playback with "kscd" not, "playing" the scratches, but not disturbing.

So in fact Monty's hint "you can turn that off" was my solution, "cdparanoia -vZB". Much faster than a pure playback, as
drive's full speed is used. And all files are playable on my MP3 player.

Remark: All of these CDDAs are audio books, no music, so the result is completely sufficient for me.
Just in case some music enthusiasts in the mailing list might shudder about my quality "expectations" :-)

So thanks again,
Michael





Am 04.12.2014 um 00:11 schrieb xiphmont at xiph.org:
>> Whyever, I can't really rip these CDDAs, not with audex, not with a dolphin copy and paste and unfortunately also not
>> with cdparanoia, which I tried at last. All of the above "hangs" at some tracks.
> 
> Right; by default it will only accept a perfectly reproducible read.
> You can turn that off, BTW, however there might still be issues with
> the kernel endlessly retrying read attempts when the drive itself
> reports errors.
> 
> You can in fact often buff out scratches from the play surface.
> Polish from hub to rim.  Plastic 'scratch-removal' fluids and a cotton
> cloth work pretty well.
> 
> There's also a product called a 'CD Doctor' that's a little automated
> buffing machine that does the same.  It actually works.
> 
> Monty
>