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Should i worry?

Soon i'm going to rip my entire CD collection to my hard drive (100+ CDs) and I’m worried about my current setup.

I'm using a  LG 8520b (HL-DT-STCD-RW GCE-8520B) and CDex with ripping method set to Paranoia, Full, and encoding with FLAC.

Should i worry about the quality of the ripped wav files? or can i assume that my hardware and software setup is good enough to prevent anything but defects/damage to the CD itself?

And to damage on the CD will this setup find and notice errors? or just read the bad data and not notice?

Some of the CDs are damaged to 1 degree or another, lending out CDs isn't always smart. and I always wash the CD with soapy water, rinse, and dry toilet paper before ripping to get any crud off. Is there anything else i should do?

maybe I just worry about the ability of my hardware and software to much and have no faith..

Should i worry?

Reply #1 –
I'm sure a million other monkeys will say this, but ...

you may get better results if you use ExactAudioCopy:
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

There is plenty of info in this forum on how to set up EAC for secure ripping.

There are also products you can buy that can help restore the surface layer on the cd, which may help improve the readability of the disk. Of course that depends on the extent of the damage ...

You should also give more info about your hardware - what OS, motherboard, processor, RAM, hard disk, etc... do you have?

.dd.

Should i worry?

Reply #2 –
I recently ripped my entire collection of about 500 CD's and have had multiple problem CD's. Even though the CD does not appear to be in bad condition it may not rip properly. If you want peace of mind use EAC.

Destron
 

Should i worry?

Reply #3 –
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...and I always wash the CD with soapy water, rinse, and dry toilet paper before ripping to get any crud off. Is there anything else i should do?

Since toilet paper is made up of small fibers (which can scratch your CDs), you might want to find something else for drying your discs. A good lint-free cloth would be best. Unless you feel like buying cloths for the purpose, you might get satisfactory results with a scrap from an old tee-shirt or turtleneck.

    - M.

Should i worry?

Reply #4 –
well i used to use  EAC, but i then tried some cds where i was getting bad rips, and a burned CD witch i totally messed up and EAC didn't do as good as job as CDex. But maybe i had them setup wrong.

How good are these products? all the CDs that I never lent out, or have purchased after i was about 14 are in perfect condition, its the others i'm worried about, like warcraft 2 CD from whatever year it was first released that has survived 3 kids and many many hours of use:)

My complete system specs:
built myself
AMD athlon xp 2500+ (barton core)
asus A7N8X deluxe (rev 2.0) lastest bios
1 GB ram, 333 DDR
silent-X 400watt PSU
sound blaster audigy with 300$(Canadian) logitech speakers (i can remember the model number)
asus geforce 4 (doesn't matter but i said complete so hey:)
2 HDs, 1 seagate 80gb ATA(SYSTEM), 1 seagate 120gb SATA ,
LG 8520b (HL-DT-STCD-RW GCE-8520B) for ripping.

i have had a few problems with this system so far,
memtest86 found ram problems with 1 slot, so i might have a MB with a bad RAM slot, still doing nightly memtests to resolve the root issue here.
And when i'm ripping with CDex all sounds are messed up when its reading the disk except winamp2. I'm really puzzled about that and have written to creative asking about it, who have sent me a forum letter with bios tweaks.

But the 14 CDs i've done so far i've only found 1 error. maybe i'll try EAC and see if it can do better with that CD

Should i worry?

Reply #5 –
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well i used to use  EAC, but i then tried some cds where i was getting bad rips, and a burned CD witch i totally messed up and EAC didn't do as good as job as CDex. But maybe i had them setup wrong.

...But the 14 CDs i've done so far i've only found 1 error. maybe i'll try EAC and see if it can do better with that CD

My current policy is to use EAC as much as possible, but there are CD's which I cannot rip no matter what, so I plow through the errors using Cdex.

The thing about having found only one error so far is that there may be more errors which Cdex did not find that you will not discover until the listening stage.

Of all the CD's I have ripped so far there has only been one error that EAC did not catch (but I caught later while listening to the album).


Destron

Should i worry?

Reply #6 –
well i'm trying to configure EAC but there are no help files to tell me what does what.

The 1 error i've found so far was by listening, and neither CDex nor EAC can fix/detect it, i think its just a error from the mastering process or something(its an OLD unused, un damaged CD, serria - homworld soundtrack)

Should i worry?

Reply #7 –
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well i'm trying to configure EAC but there are no help files to tell me what does what.

Hello.
You are right, EAC's documentation is lacking.

But there's the FAQ

Maybe you want to spend some time there before starting your archiving endeavor.
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