Problem ripping with XLD?

Posted by: ChrisG on 21 August 2016

Hi

Can anyone help with this problem, I’m using XLD to rip my CD’s into FLAC on an iMac and have encountered very few problems in some 2000+ CD rips. 

Today I tried to rip the new Ryley Walker CD “Golden Sings That Have Been Sung” (truly truly excellent music!) it’s a 2CD edition, the first ripped very slowly but there were no errors according to the XLD log file. The CD isn’t in the accurate rip database yet so no confirmation of rip that way. The second CD refuses to rip, I should mention that it’s one 42 minute track…...could that be the problem?

I can rip it to ALAC using iTunes with error correction enabled without a problem.

Would appreciate any ideas.

Best

Chris

Posted on: 21 August 2016 by Huge

Take the ALAC rip and convert it to FLAC or WAVE - all three are lossless codecs, so the data conversion can be bit perfect and (assuming no defect in the converter software) it'll be exactly the same as ripping directly to FLAC.

Posted on: 21 August 2016 by ChrisG

Thanks Huge, any idea  why the XLD software wouldn't rip the CD?

Posted on: 21 August 2016 by ChrisSU

There isn't much I like about iTunes, but on the rare occasions I've been unable to rip a CD elsewhere, it does seem to be the best chance of getting a result, so I would second Huge's suggestion here. Rip it to AIFF, ALAC or WAV and use XLD to convert it if you need to.

While you're waiting, you could always listen to it on Tidal!

Posted on: 21 August 2016 by Adam Zielinski
ChrisG posted:

Thanks Huge, any idea  why the XLD software wouldn't rip the CD?

I think it's down to individual CDs as such. Even my UnitiServe 'refuses' to rip some of my CDs.
They play fine on a CDX2.2 but US stubbornly refuses. Cleaned them, zapped them, you name it... hey still won't rip

Posted on: 22 August 2016 by ChrisG

Thanks for the help, guys, yes iTunes does have it's uses from time to time!

 

Chris

Posted on: 23 August 2016 by Mr Happy

Also, you could try ripping in burst mode. I found this worked on every cd that struggled on secure mode. There doesn't seem to be any audible difference between the two either.