Posted by Jyeshta on 08/15/07 15:32

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:36:58 GMT, "dadiOH"
<dadiOH@guesswhere.com> wrote:

>Jyeshta wrote:
>
>> Hi again, dadiOH,
>>
>> Well, I finally got the wavs ripped.
>
>Good to hear :)
>___________

:-) Well, I thought they *would* be, but.... :-)

>> 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.
>
>You can override that automatic program opening when you insert a CD
>by holding down the SHIFT key when inserting the CD (have to hold down
>quite a while). You can shut it off in Device Manager (Winkey +
>Pause/Break) by selecting...
> CDROM
> Drive
> Properties
> Settings
>and untick "Auto Insert Notification"
>____________

Thank you! Great to learn this. :-)

>> 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.
>
>I don't know either but suspect it has to do with the CD being made by
>a CD recorder.
>_____________

Could be, but a different one made on the same recorder/copier
ripped fine a few months ago.

I don't remember being plagued with MusicMatch popping up any
other time before when I've put a disk into a drive. Since it
had been staying dormant I left it alone, but then suddenly it
wasn't and luckily it uninstalled without persisting system
problems so far. I knew I couldn't use it anyway, because
everytime I do a virus scan, my antivirus listed corrupt files in
MusicMatch (probably why it was crashing and hanging, but I still
have no idea why it suddenly started opening automatically just
since Sunday).

>> One weird thing - the wav files sound a lot more distorted than
>> the CD did when playing from the optical drive.
>
>Then there is something wrong with the ripping. You certainly
>shouldn't be able to audibly distinguish between ripped waves and
>their parent CD.

Maybe I'd better try it again, also first listen more carefully
to the disk in the drive to see if there is really is that much
distortion on the original disk.

>It seems/sounds like things aren't reading the CDs table of contents
>correctly (or are having difficulty in reading it). The confusing
>thing is that you say the CD plays fine and the TOC needs to be read
>to play. So why does it play OK but other things have trouble reading
>it? Beats me.

Well, I need to give it a close listen and see if it really is
playing OK. My first impression could very well have been wrong.
But it would be nice if there isn't so much distortion on the
disk so I still might have a chance to get better rips of it.

Many many thanks!

G.

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