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Posted by Jyeshta on 08/14/07 17:08
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:23:46 GMT, "dadiOH"
<dadiOH@guesswhere.com> wrote:
>Jyeshta wrote:
>> I've Googled this for hours. Every page says to rip the .cda
>> "files" with a ripper.
>>
>> I've tried CDex, Audiograbber, DbPowerAmp, and WinAmp, all to no
>> avail. None of them will even show the tracks from the CD in the
>> optical drive.
>>
>> I tried copying the CD with Nero, in case it was a matter of the
>> original CD not having been finalized. Still, nothing works.
>>
>> The files play just fine from the optical drive, but I cannot rip
>> them from the CD!
>>
>> This CD was made on a CD Recorder, and there is no copy
>> protection involved. Can anyone please help me out with this?
>
>Got another drive you could try to rip from? Or maybe a friend's
>computer?
Hi again, dadiOH,
Well, I finally got the wavs ripped. First, I had to uninstall
MusicMatch Jukebox (a Dell pre-install I never had even opened)
because everytime I was putting the CD in a drive, it kept
opening, crashing, and hanging and I had to kill it with Task
Manager. So, I uninstalled that.
Then I tried to see if a known-rippable CD would show up in the
rippers, and it did. But I opened the ripper first, before
inserting the CD in the drive. That seems to be the only way it
will work now.
So, then I was finally able to rip the home-made CD. But then
WinAmp no longer worked. I had to download and install
foobar2000 to see if there was any sound in any of my wavs or
mp3s.
So then I uninstalled Winamp and reinstalled it and for some
reason, now instead of the Winamp desktop icon, there's an AOL
icon. But it works as a music player again.
I still don't know what the problem was. It was never a problem
before to insert a CD before opening a ripper. But at least I
don't have to set up my old computer and I'm glad of that.
One weird thing - the wav files sound a lot more distorted than
the CD did when playing from the optical drive.
Anyway, I managed to rip that %#&%@ CD!
Many thanks!
G.
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