I admit to having obtained more than a few used and consequently scratched CDs. Most will successfully play through on my Rotel RCD-1072 but not all of the musically better CDs can be successfully ripped without audible errors when making a backup copy. A few have been helped after using Mapleshade's Mikrosmooth.
In the past, I ripped at 32x and when burning, used 16x speed with varying results. Will ripping at something like 16x and burning at 8x or 4x give me any better results or am I correct to expect that the scratch errors are simply read at a slower speed and burned at a slower speed?
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Topic - On ripping scratched CDs - Postal Grunt 20:29:21 04/5/16 (11)
- RE: Get rid of the scratches first!! - craiggoff 09:15:04 04/8/16 (0)
- RE: On ripping scratched CDs - AbeCollins 08:39:04 04/7/16 (0)
- Try ripping from a different drive - tcell 07:27:53 04/6/16 (0)
- RE: On ripping scratched CDs - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 20:40:44 04/5/16 (7)
- I agree, EAC is the best. It will reread a bad disc section until it is perfect... - Smelly_Socks 14:20:24 04/6/16 (6)
- RE: I agree, EAC is the best. It will reread a bad disc section until it is perfect... - John Elison 19:13:11 04/7/16 (2)
- RE: I agree, EAC is the best. It will reread a bad disc section until it is perfect... - Tony Lauck 12:43:53 04/8/16 (1)
- Ditto - E-Stat 07:25:57 04/12/16 (0)
- or as I experienced, until the drive wore out and died. nt - Tony Lauck 16:27:40 04/6/16 (2)
- Yeah, don't do what he did [nt] - J.Mac 23:53:15 04/7/16 (1)
- RE: Yeah, don't do what he did [nt] - cfraser 12:11:45 04/12/16 (0)