Re: [tlug] Audio CD Issues

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

David Santinoli wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:27:20PM +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
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>>been doing this on and off for a few years on different hardware and
>>with different software and I've noticed that some combinations
>>(sorry, I don't have a precise record) of software & hardware produce
>>disks that sound perfect, but some disks - while readable - have
>>extremely irritating popping sounds that crop up every thirty seconds
>>or so.
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>Do the bad CDs sound the same (with pops and cracks) on any reader?
>In this case, it's probably an audio extraction issue.  For reading
>audio tracks, you'd better put dd aside and use cdparanoia instead
>(never forget the -z option!).
>  
>

Yes, the defective sounding disks play that way on all players.

Thank you for the information.

Lyle