Posted by NRen2k5 on 02/02/06 02:28

David wrote:
> I have several CDs I need to rip to my hard drive. Some of my CDs are
> scratched. Is there any ripping software that will detect if the CD
> can rip correctly? What happens is it will rip, then when I listen to
> the track, I can hear the scratches. Sometimes a CD will play OK in my
> audio player, but when I rip it to my hard drive, there are errors. It
> would be nice to have a software package that can check the CD for
> scratches beforehand. Any suggestions?

I haven't heard of anything of that sort, but Exact Audio Copy and CDex
are rippers with "secure" ripping, meaning that when there are read
errors the sectors are read again, and that way you can get a good rip
even though there are some scratches. Obviously nothing will give you a
perfect rip from a CD that's in *horrible* condition, but these rippers
are pretty good.

If you decide to use EAC, the ripping mode you want to use is "Secure".
If you decide to use CDex, then you want to use "Full Paranoia".

- NRen2k5

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