Problems playing audio CD's in PC

[Chaos Master]

Hello people

I have a problem:

A certain audio CD will suddenly get "stuck" - as in a scratched CD - on my PC'
CD drive. The cd plays 100% fine in a standalone CD player.
The problem is: the CD has no scratches.

I found this problem after I tried to "rip" the CD to WAVE files for conversion
to MP3 format.

Is this a problem of PC CD drive or of disk?

Thanks!

 

[William R. Walsh]

Hi!

A certain audio CD will suddenly get "stuck" - as in a scratched CD - on my PC'
CD drive. The cd plays 100% fine in a standalone CD player.
The problem is: the CD has no scratches.

Perhaps the disk has a defect that your audio CD player is willing to
ignore, while the PC CD-ROM may not be able to work around it?

I've seen marginal disks that played fine in a regular audio player but
failed in a PC or most "skip protected" players.

Do you have digital audio output enabled for your CD-ROM drive, or is the
audio coming from a special small cable from the drive to your soundcard?
Check your operating system's configuration to be sure of what you are
using. I find it better to use the analog audio output as there isn't much
difference in sound quality and the bus to which the drive is attached is
not kept as busy.

Is this a problem of PC CD drive or of disk?

Test the drive with other known good CDs and see what happens. Try both data
and audio. If it fails, you can probably be sure it is the drive that has a
problem. If there are no problems, then the disc is probably to blame for
your troubles.

William

 

[Chaos Master]

William R. Walsh bleeding:

Perhaps the disk has a defect that your audio CD player is willing to
ignore, while the PC CD-ROM may not be able to work around it?

This is exactly what I am thinking. The CD is just with small scratches.

Do you have digital audio output enabled for your CD-ROM drive, or is the
audio coming from a special small cable from the drive to your soundcard?
Check your operating system's configuration to be sure of what you are
using. I find it better to use the analog audio output as there isn't much
difference in sound quality and the bus to which the drive is attached is
not kept as busy.

The audio is coming from the small cable.
Windows 98 is not set to do digital audio output, as I think the sound of analog
output is louder.

Test the drive with other known good CDs and see what happens. Try both data
and audio. If it fails, you can probably be sure it is the drive that has a
problem. If there are no problems, then the disc is probably to blame for
your troubles.

I can blame the disk, then.
Data CD's work fine even when I do heavy access to them (e.g. installing
software or running a live Linux distro).


Thanks
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