Randall Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 I have resurrected CD's I thought were dead. Anyone else have success doing this? Then I have been able to re-burn them and put them on ipod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampnuts Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 I've saved a few this way. Pretty cool when it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 it just means the CD drive on your computer reads better than the one in your car or wherever. this is usually the case. i've had plenty of cds get skips that i can't seem to get rid of by cleaning...go burn a copy and it's fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Posted February 8, 2006 Author Share Posted February 8, 2006 it just means the CD drive on your computer reads better than the one in your car or wherever. this is usually the case. i've had plenty of cds get skips that i can't seem to get rid of by cleaning...go burn a copy and it's fine. 1313172[/snapback] No, in my case I have tried copying and re-writing and it hasn't worked. itunes has worked better at copying on PC's and Macs. No big deal but the software has been better at reading most discs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 No, in my case I have tried copying and re-writing and it hasn't worked. itunes has worked better at copying on PC's and Macs. No big deal but the software has been better at reading most discs. 1313250[/snapback] well see software isn't what reads the disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 well see software isn't what reads the disc. 1313304[/snapback] But, maybe the reading process of ripping it to mp3 is able to pick up on multiple passes what it couldn't do in real-time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 (edited) But, maybe the reading process of ripping it to mp3 is able to pick up on multiple passes what it couldn't do in real-time... 1313429[/snapback] ripping almost always occurs at FASTER than real time. i bet if lulu tried to play the disc in the same drive he used to rip it to i-tunes, it would play fine. and even if it didn't, using a decent burning/ripping software like nero will rip every bit as effectively if not more. my point is that the drive itself is far more important as far as being able to retrive data from "unreadable" discs than software is. if you have software that tells the drive to try and read it several times before it gives up, it still ultimately boils down to whether the laser is picking up the data or not. Edited February 8, 2006 by Azazello1313 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Posted February 8, 2006 Author Share Posted February 8, 2006 (edited) ripping almost always occurs at FASTER than real time. i bet if lulu tried to play the disc in the same drive he used to rip it to i-tunes, it would play fine. and even if it didn't, using a decent burning/ripping software like nero will rip every bit as effectively if not more. my point is that the drive itself is far more important as far as being able to retrive data from "unreadable" discs than software is. if you have software that tells the drive to try and read it several times before it gives up, it still ultimately boils down to whether the laser is picking up the data or not. 1313483[/snapback] That isn't true. I tried it several times along with several other software titles and they didn't work. Edited February 8, 2006 by Randall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10g_DBA Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I use EAC for hard-to-rip CDs. Works great. http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckB Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Man this turned into a fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Posted February 9, 2006 Author Share Posted February 9, 2006 Man this turned into a fight. 1314929[/snapback] What a shock. Itunes has read discs that were damaged. They may try and replace damaged areas they can't read. Saved a few CD's for me so I don't mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 What a shock. Itunes has read discs that were damaged. They may try and replace damaged areas they can't read. Saved a few CD's for me so I don't mind. 1315121[/snapback] there's tons of software that does this, wetodd. and most of them don't require the lossy compression/decompression to mp3 and back. if your method for recovering "damaged" cds is to pull them into itunes and then burn them, then you don't really know what you're doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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