[ale] Troublesome CDs

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim)]

On Monday 19 August 2002 02:14 pm, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm in the process of ripping all my CDs to MP3 for listening on the go,
> and have found that some of them do not work in the CD drive.  None of them
> are new enough to be protected by the new
> consumer-ripoff^H^H^H^H^Hcopy-protection schemes, and others from the same
> label are readable.  What I'm interested in knowing is what may be the
> problem with those disks.  Can anyone help/point me to help?

I have had some CD's with unrecrodable tracks. If you are using cdparanoia to 
rip, it will give you an indication of scratches and errors that it finds.

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