Ripping Errors - What to do?

For me option 2 or 3 are reasonable or try to use other ripper.

I would clean disc and just attempt to re rip the offending track, which you can do in dbpoweramp.

I use a mac and have had success by using a different program or drive for the ocasional tricky disc.

Yup agree with maccaa, give it a clean and try again.  I have found in the past that once this sort of thing starts then it seems to get worse - so get it ripped as well as you can.

Don't know what the music is but hopefully it's a Cliff Richard album and then you could just bin it!  I wonder what you are doing with one of his albums anyway.  If it was a Kylie album you at least could keep the picture of the diminutive antipodean while you bin the disc.  Kylie is lovely, it's just a shame she can't sing.

What cd drive are you using for the ripping?  It could be a drive issue, not necessarily a disc issue.

Old discs are liable to have "CD rot" (disc degradation/lamination separation) on the uter edge - the last track(s)  -  not able to fix this

Try a thorough clean & polish & fingers crossed

Set rip "Options" (Top Left Banner)  > Ripping Method & check "Secure" (recover Errors)

Still sounds like a high failure rate. Unless the CDs are in particularly poor condition I would suspect the CD reader/transport.

I agree. 

Try one of these  

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsun...amsung+cd+dvd+writer

I've ripped thousands of CDs successfully over the last year with one of these. Excellent value for £20.

A couple of things to consider...

1. Try to rip with another dvd player you can buy them cheap and mostly using two ones will do the job.

2. Clean cd as mentioned

3. Retry the individual problematic tracks - does sometimes do the job

4. If nothing work just buy the one problematic track from f.i. qobuz or buy the cd new.

I had a lot of problems like this when I started ripping, about 35 discs failed to rip properly out of the first 250 or so I'd ripped to that point and all my CDs were in pretty immaculate condition. I went through three UnitiServes and was being offered a third NS01 (even tried a different drive on one of these) when my dealer and I agreed that it could not possibly have been a fault in all these units. We even tried two different releases of the ripping firmware. In the end I sent a dozen or so problem discs to Trevor Wilson who investigated the problem using a programme called 'Nero CD-DVD Speed' release 4.7.0.2 , which showed 'C2' error spikes in the discs. Replacement discs were obtained and the problem was largely resolved. In a couple of cases I have returned one disc only to receive a replacement from the same batch which exhibited the same fault in the same place on the disc. The solution here was to wait a while or source a replacement from a different supplier and hope for the best. So the answer was a problem in the discs. It seems I was just very unlucky!

Interestingly, I have a copy of Dire Straits' 'Brothers in Arms' (normally I wouldn't admit to this) which has from new had numerous holes in the aluminium foil layer, and that ripped just fine.

As said above, clean disc and re rip problematic track. Depending on CD drive and CDripper program you are using the drive can have varying degrees of success of using various brute force methods to read the track.I use dbpoweramp which I find good here and seems to have good interoperability with many CD drives. If I have a badly scratched disc I sometimes have to resort to this... And despite this it is very rare that any damage is audible even if the Accurip doesn't match.

Simon

As above.

Clean, then retry track.  Better still, retry in a different optical drive.  Most disc reading problems are fixed this way.  I use 3 drives, and 1 of them nearly always works with the stubbornly tricky tracks.

Some non secure rips actually sound OK, others don't,

I have found that issue occurred with the 'secure' function on, so sometimes I just cancelled and turned it 'Burst' mode for those problem tracks. 

Upgrading to the latest version 15.3 seems to have fixed some of these problem issues, which always seemed to the last one or two tracks on a disc. 

If the issue occurs reguarly on the last one or two tracks, that does suggest bad CD drive alignment, and you might want to try a different optical drive. I think dbpoweramp keep a list of optical drives that perform the best overall based on feed back from Accurip uploads.

Simon

Cheers guys some good pointers there ...

actually ripped all my 50+ Cliff Richard albums fine cheers

Ah well never mind, it must have been your Girls Allowed collection then.

The  dBpoweramp system with Accuraterip needs to check the individual drive off-set, if it it does not qualify, then it will not allow that drive to label it as Accuraterip.  However that does not mean you cannot get an error free rip, or at least a rip that indicates its error free.  

I have two drives, a Samsung & a Dell; one gives an Accuraterip but with some CD's will show tracks that do not qualify;  the other drive will not align for Accurate rip qualification but will give "Secure" error free rips on more tracks than does Accuraterip.  Audibly they all sound error free to me - or at least nothing that is obvious. 

I do however have one CD that has the CD "rot" & it rips audible errors on the last two tracks with both drives  & show the same tracks with errors.   

IME whilst Accurate rip is a very good indicator that is comparing to the listed numbers of the same CD's it has on www record,  the dBpoweramp Secure Rip system does copy "your" CD accurately & if it does have real errors,  it shows it.