The other day I was overcome with nostalgia and decided to rip all my Bruce Springsteen CDs so I could listen to all of them via iTunes on my stereo instead of having to switch CDs. I used to love Bruce Springsteen as a kid. So I spent some time ripping... And as I listen to them now I realize that some tracks have various breaks in them – a second of silence here or there. How could this happen? I know that if the CD is bad and you’re not trying to reread bad sectors you’ll end up with clicks in your tracks. But silence? Was my computer too busy while ripping? Damn. I’ll have to try and rip one of them again to see whether this is fixable.
I blame iTunes.
I ripped a CD again, and there were (different) silent moments in the one track I picked for testing. Grr. And when I listen to the CD on my stereo, no problem. What’s going on?
In a sinister world where the big labels are trying to screw their customers, working together with Apple, I would surmise that they intentionally break CD ripping by iTunes. “Get the real tracks from the iTunes Store!?”
Well, I think I’ll try and find a command-line tool to do rip CDs for me. Or maybe there’s something with a Mac interface? I’ll give Max a try. It interfaces with MusicBrainz, gives me decent encoding options, uses LAME.
Time passes, and the tracks no longer seem to have the problem, as long as I don’t use the computer. W00t? When I start switching applications, I get these silent moments again. Am I stupid? Was this all a *playback* problem? I’ll have to listen to a few more CDs. 🙁 Groan...
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I’ve experienced this on a friend’s Windows machine with iTunes. It was caused by skipping I think. And when it skipped, iTunes would start a new track. The laptop also didn’t appreciate the heat resulting from running the CD-ROM drive and ripping, either. I just kept starting the ripping process over from where it messed up, and it eventually worked.
– AaronHawley 2007-10-22 12:47 UTC
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HI! Also es scheint, mein kommentar ist verschwunden 🙁 . Ich versuche es also noch einmal... Zu rippen: rippe mal mit ezcddax. Dann das gespeicherte in itunes importieren. ezcddax arbeitet eigentlich sehr gut. War mal ein tipp von dir! Habe auch schon sehr viel gerippt: muss ca. 1700 auf der festplatte haben 😃! Podcast in itunes: der download ist ganz mies, funktioniert nicht! Aber mit “juice” geht es wunderbar: einfach und schnell. Auch da wieder, speichern, importieren, eine eigene wiedergabeliste machen, denn die sendungen werden leider nicht unter podcast gespeichert. Ganz toll, das hörbuch-system. Bin ja bei audible.de... Bin immer noch fan..
Bussis, mama
– mum 2007-10-23 13:22 UTC
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Seltsam, mit dem Podcasts habe ich unter iTunes gar kein Problem. Meine Angst ist jetzt halt, dass unter den vielen CDs, die ich eingelesen habe, nun diverse mit “Fehlern” sind und ich diese so schnell nicht finden werde. So will gar kein rechtes Vertrauen in die Technik aufkommen. :__
– Alex Schroeder 2007-10-23 13:42 UTC