If ripper A can successfully extract the audio but ripper B can't, it's because ripper A uses multiple reads to try and get a consistent result or some other similar strategy that ripper B doesn't use. Either the drive can read the block or it can't. All rippers do is ask the drive for one or more blocks of audio data from the CD. However, on one of the computers, when I make FLAC files from a cue/wav image file with XRecode, there are no tags at all, but I still get 'dropouts.' So I think tags are not likely the problem.Ĭlick to expand.That actually has nothing in particular to do with iTunes. The files are tagged in some manner by EAC. ID3 tags? I'm not sure, I'll have to check on that. When I identify a bad track - and these are not really bad, but they are imperfect, obviously - I can re-rip and they always play back flawlessly. It's difficult to be precise, but I would estimate that about 5% of files have a little dropout in them at some point, could be anywhere within the track. On computer number 2, I have FLAC set up to rip, verify, and make FLACs (it then erases the wav file originally generated, leaving only the FLAC file for each track.

Then I open XRecode and drop the cue file in, where it proceeds to make individual FLAC files for each track on the album. On one computer, I rip to cue/wav disc image with EAC. This is odd because it happens on both computers that I use for ripping. Click to expand.I didn't have any problems today, but for the past several months I've been getting a dropout or two - sounds roughly like a tape dropout on maybe 5% of the files.

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