NDX - dbPoweramp issue

Posted by: al9315 on 15 April 2016

Been getting some great assistance from a regular contributor on here, but a problem !

Downloaded dbPoweramp in anticipation of my NDX arriving next week, then NAS.................................

Did a test CD - put it in PC DVD drawer - ran it !?"?£?

Have run it 3 times now - and get Inaccurate (11) on every track - I cannot find out what to do now anywhere ?

Any suggestions most welcome

Could it be a poor quality DVD drive??

Posted on: 15 April 2016 by Mike-B

Hi again, I would guess a bad drive as the prime suspect, try another CD & if that also gives bad tracks, then 99% sure the DVD drive. Do you have another drive to try, laptop with a drive. Have you tried different rip programs?? basic, secure etc.

When I first set about ripping my ~500 CD collection I did not get any inaccurate reports except the rare odd one or two on a few CD's & with what I could see were defective discs - bad marked or the infamous CD rot that you get on the outer edge. Some CD's ripped OK but did not report one or two tracks as "AccurateRip", I could rescue those by ripping on my laptop drive

Posted on: 15 April 2016 by PepsiCan

Make sure you go through the options and setup of DbPowerAmp. Things like drive offset and buffers need to be correct otherwise you can get this sort of behaviour too.

Posted on: 15 April 2016 by al9315

Thanks very much for replies - I have just tried again - and lo and behold - on my 10th CD without a single error !?

Regards

Posted on: 15 April 2016 by Mike-B

Thar ya go !!! Same drive I assume ??? maybe need to shake off some dust

Posted on: 15 April 2016 by Dungassin

Some CDs will give multiple errors. The problem can be a bad CD - try cleaning it.

Some CDs will have just a few errors, but set dBpoweramp to rip in Burst mode, and just see if the rips play OK. If so, don't worry too much about it. Other CDs will have to retry parts of individual tracks and will hopefully report 'secure' (rather than accurate rip), and again the rip will play OK.

However, there are CDs (usually Warner Brothers or subsidiaries) which won't rip successfully on some CD drives (even in burst mode). If you attempt to play these rips you get gross distortion (i.e. unusable). I use a Mac Superdrive, and this exhibits this problem. For that reason I have kept my old LG DVD writer which will usually rip these OK.

Posted on: 16 April 2016 by SB

I echo the Warner Brothers issue, when I had my first HD player (Olive HD4), that refused to rip WB CDs. It went back under warranty (not for the last time, but that is another story) and the CD drive was replaced, witha different model. It then ripped OK.

Posted on: 16 April 2016 by Dungassin

The other thing I forgot to mention is that I think sometimes CDs are reissued, possible remastered, or with slightly different track lengths, and the database thinks they are another version of the album. In that case rips, although OK, will be reported as inaccurate.

Posted on: 17 April 2016 by Huge

Dungassin posted:
The other thing I forgot to mention is that I think sometimes CDs are reissued, possible remastered, or with slightly different track lengths, and the database thinks they are another version of the album. In that case rips, although OK, will be reported as inaccurate.

In that case the best course of action is to use dBpoweramp's CDGrab in 'secure rip' mode (and go out for the evening while it processes the CD multiple times). It may not match the AcurateRip database (and hence be reported as 'inacurate'), but the rip confidence can still be good.