Re: When ripping fizzles out toward the end of a CD...

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 15:41, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm ripping CDs onto my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303) with 
> (mostly) a great deal of success. But occasionally, the process grinds 
> to a halt before the entire CD is ripped. Rip rates of 1.5x or so slow 
> to 0.1x or worse. This holds true on the same CD whether I'm using 
> cdda2wav, cdparanoia, or grip (with CDp). This leads me to think it's 
> the CD, not the hardware or software, but I'd be pleased if someone 
> wants to disabuse me of that notion -- it's hard to appreciate 
> Schubert's Symphony No. 2 when you lose the last two movements! ;-)
> 
> If anyone's experienced this, is there a workaround?

I've experienced something like this, and the cause was a copy
protection system on the CD, which made it impossible to play under
Windows, and hard to rip under Grip. Somehow, the data track at the end
of the CD made it hard to rip the audio right next to it, or at least
that's what I thought...
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