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If you're using EAC, first of all: Is the "Offset" detected automatically the right one for your drive? You can check this online. The automatic detection isn't 100% foolproof.
If the last tracks on a CD won't read properly, there's a strong indication of a bad pressing, or disintegration of your CD over time (PDO, anyone?). Both happened to me many, many times (Deutsche Grammophon, Unicorn, Hyperion, John Scott Records). If the latter, there's nothing you can do. On those PDO bronzing CDs the last tracks were ALWAYS the ones not to be playable/readable any more first.
Also, check your drive. If you can play a CD with no problems on your standalone CD player, but it still won't rip properly on your drive, than almost certainly the drive is malfunctioning.
Also, try CDEX for ripping. This program is a lot more forgiving on ripping problematic CDs. If it rips OK, but the result will still show skips and plops, then it's the CD, or the drive, but not the software.
I know that you can reduce the ripping speed on several programs, but, frankly, that won't help you. Correctly working CD drives can rip undamaged CDs at MAXIMUM speed.
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I think this mostly occurs when there's plenty (too much?) music on the disk. I had it happen with some soundtrack CDs, but the "notorious" ones in my collection are anthologies by Bear Family. Some of them have content close to 90 minutes - a bit much compared to the original 74 minute limit. Some of them have difficulties on the closing tracks - others (particularly older pressings!) will have the problems all the way through...
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I found the same thing, when making some compilations from the "ST:TNG" box from FSM, the last cues from one of the discs, would not rip properly, and they play bad, too.
Another way this, if the CD plays fine, but just doesn't rip properly, is to simply use a program, like Audacity, and record it as it plays. It's time consuming, but it works.
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Aug 26, 2013 - 12:04 PM
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mstrox
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This happened to me with several albums in my collection on multiple computers/drives (always on iTunes)-
Varese, The Other Boleyn Girl
Varese, LOST Season 4
Silva, The Essential Horror Music Collection (one of the discs)
Warner, Inception
Varese sent me a second copy of LOST S4 after I e-mailed them, and I had the same problem with that disc, too. With this, the Silva disc, and Inception, I managed to make acceptable playing tracks by copying again, and again, and again, until somehow it made it through without any audible pops or skips.
I actually bought a second copy of The Other Boleyn Girl (was only $3 at Family Dollar) and had the same problem. No matter of ripping and reripping would fix the offending tracks, so I ended up picking them up on iTunes.
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Audacity is a great free program. I use it all the time. You can record audio as it's streaming live from the internet, radio, Youtube, your microphone, whatever.
The only downside is the preset options need to be adjusted. I cant' speak for the current version of Audacity, but when I got it, it came set to mono recording, and other low quality features. I had to re-adjust everything. I had to also mess with the computer volume controls, 'cause if you don't have certain things muted, you can record background noise, or get nothing when recording from online.
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[Album] - -
[Artist] - Herbert von Karajan
[Genre] - Blues
But all replay gain, encoding and itunes flags are filled.
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