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Posted by: al9315 on 24 April 2016

Copying some discs to hard drive in preparation for NDX installation

One a couple of Cds the last track or two come up with errors  ( Re-rip 8864 frames ) - tried re-writing them - but no go - maybe scratched Cd.... ?

QUESTION ?

Can I just delete the track in file manager? AND will the rest of the CD - successfully copied tracks - work OK ?

What does the +/- offset mean please ?

Thanks

Al

Posted on: 25 April 2016 by Mike-B

As all tracks have verified against AccurateRip it means AR has positively verified all but not Track 12,  It has ripped OK but not verified.  

Track 12 is on the outer edge of the disc & its most likely disc edge damage or corrosion. Its common with old CD's & those that have been bruised in life outside the jewel case.    I would try a disc clean & polish with a damp cloth & try a few re-rips that overwrites track 12 it can work,  it might help if you try another read/write drive  (be sure you have Secure Rip enabled as this makes 3 passes to try to get a verified rip)   Finally I have about 12 or 15 of those but only 1 is audible.   

Posted on: 25 April 2016 by Guy007

AL9315 The file has copied properly - it took 5 re-rips to get it - but as a result it is secure, with 26 instances in the database having similar matches on the checksum.    The other 11 tracks exactly matched 21 instances of the tracks in the Accurate rip database.

So all is good, we'll that's my interpretation. 

And if you haven't got it yet, at 30 days after install, Accuraterip will ask to send in your CD ripping info to add to the database of results, to help all audio ripping brethren.

Posted on: 25 April 2016 by Guy007

Mike, you beat me to it.  That said, I have had no issues listening to tracks that are "secure", and normally when it does occur for me, it is for the whole disc of an obsure CD and one that is not in their database and I will be the reference rip.

Posted on: 25 April 2016 by Mike-B

Hi Guy,  like I said I have a few rips that have mixed A.Rip & Secure & I cannot hear anything different.  I do however have one disc from a CD  that has an end track with visible "rot" corrosion,  the rip has some pop/click noise during the last few seconds, The problem was it did rip as "Secure" ....  eventually .... after a lot of cleaning & overwrite attempts.    Read into that what you will;  my practice was to at least listen.    

Posted on: 25 April 2016 by al9315

Thanks very much for your patient replies - now just about understand it - I think !

Al

P.S. - Hopefully soon be sitting listening !? - Can't wait

Posted on: 25 April 2016 by Guy007
Mike-B posted:

Hi Guy,  like I said I have a few rips that have mixed A.Rip & Secure & I cannot hear anything different.  I do however have one disc from a CD  that has an end track with visible "rot" corrosion,  the rip has some pop/click noise during the last few seconds, The problem was it did rip as "Secure" ....  eventually .... after a lot of cleaning & overwrite attempts.    Read into that what you will;  my practice was to at least listen.    

Mike I've also had some cd's with snow flake 'rot' designs, where I have given up ripping. As I can count them on two hands out of several thousand, those are odd's I'm sort of ok with. It's just frustrating it wasn't due to my miss use that caused the issue.