Weird

[ellarien]

So I have this CD, one of the set of two I bought to fill the gap in my Mozart collection that I suddenly discovered last month.

It plays fine on my elderly and sometimes crochety boombox, but neither computer likes the last two tracks (about the last five minutes of an 80-minute disk). Butterfly won't rip them without inserting bursts of static, and Behemoth just hung iTunes, froze the CD driver, and had to be rebooted without the CD in the drive before it would behave.

I guess I don't get to listen to those tracks except in the old-fashioned way.

Meanwhile, we had a mild and humid day after early rain. The local news is getting excited about floods in one of the popular mountain canyons, that washed out the road and caused a lot of destruction. It's been raining, on and off, since Thursday, I think, which is more water than the watersheds around here can really handle.

Comments

[eclecticmagpie.livejournal.com]

In iTunes preferences, importing, try turning on "use error correction". It might or might not help, but should be worth a try. Commercial CD players always use error correction; computer s/w does not, as a rule -- most of the time all it does is slow down the process of reading (remember: the player is just reading the CD at normal, real-time; the computer, on the other hand, is trying to read it much faster than that). Good luck. Let us know if it works.

[ellarien]

Thanks for the suggestion, but no dice, I'm afraid -- the ripped tracks still sound as though they were being played by a rap DJ with tremors.

As a last resort, I tried the old laptop, on the basis that it might be slower, but after much slowness and stupidity that didn't work any better.

It's only a couple of make-weight tracks anyway, so I'm not too bothered, but it just seems weird -- most of the dodgy disks I've come across work better in the computer than in the 1997-vintage boombox. I put this one down to trying to write tracks too close to the edge, I think.