OK, so I've started ripping my collection of CD-Gs via a Lacie drive from work. (FYI, OS X 10.7.1, latest version of kJams)
It's been ripping good for the most part... however on some songs, it'll stall... the disc will slow down, speed up, slow down, speed up (and just keep doing this until you stop the rip) you can then go onto the next song...
Out of about the 50 discs i've ripped, I've had about 20 songs that would do this.
Now, I was ripping a CD-G... it did that... I stopped it, went to the next one, did the same thing, went to the next one.. it ripped the rest of the disc fine. HOWEVER, on the last few songs, it slowed down from 12x to 8x, and it was much quieter... I went back and ripped the other two songs, it ripped those two songs fine at the lower speed.
(side note, I HAVE tried skipping a song... and ripping it later, it will stop in the same spot. I've tried just ripping the rest of the disc and going back. AS well as ripping another disc, and going back to the old disc that had an issue.)
Is there a hidden option I stumbled upon to slow the speed down? Or was this just by some fluke of the Optical drive?
As well, if there isn't. Can we have an option to slow it down (I think iTunes calls it "error correction"). These discs are in pretty good quality, although some of them have been used a ton... regardless they still play fine in my Pioneer.
Ideas? Suggestions?
** EDIT **
It appears that I can play the songs totally fine in iTunes...
** EDIT 2 **
Even weirder... On this disc... if I try to rip track 17 & 18, no good... If I PLAY a track near the start of the disc in iTunes ... WHILE trying to rip 17/18... I get the tracks! And they look / sound totally fine! (minus one SLIGHT glitch in 3 letters on the one song)
Changing Rip Speed
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As far as I know (and i think i know quite a bit), there is NO public API way to control the speed of the ripping. That speed up-slow down you're seeing is entirely on the "driver" side, i simply ask for the bits, and the driver "deals with it", giving me bits. yeah, mine does the same thing, sometimes speeding up so it's literally humming, sometimes slowing down so it's silent.
I have no idea what it is that iTunes is doing when you check "error correction". I was under the impression that EC is just *always* on, so that pref is a mystery to me.
ability to play audio only in iTunes is not related to whether you can rip CD+G in kJams. iTunes is not attempting the +G part.
I can not explain your results regarding ripping in kJams being successful ONLY when playing another track on the same disc from iTunes, that doesn't make sense to me.
I have no idea what it is that iTunes is doing when you check "error correction". I was under the impression that EC is just *always* on, so that pref is a mystery to me.
ability to play audio only in iTunes is not related to whether you can rip CD+G in kJams. iTunes is not attempting the +G part.
I can not explain your results regarding ripping in kJams being successful ONLY when playing another track on the same disc from iTunes, that doesn't make sense to me.
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So would it be possible to change the rip speed in kJams? (Or if kJams sees an issue (the rip stalls) it stops it, and restarts it using a slower speed.
and I DO KNOW that just because it can play in iTunes doesn't mean the CD+G file is intact... but it shows it's not totally damaged beyond recognition.
But yeah, this is more so for your information... I took another drive from work (Same unit, Lacie) and it does the same thing. If a song stalls during import, I just play a song thats far from that one (so track 1 if it's track 8...) and it'll jump around a bit, but it'll get past the block.
Do you often see it stalling when it reaches a glitch on a disc with other drives?
and I DO KNOW that just because it can play in iTunes doesn't mean the CD+G file is intact... but it shows it's not totally damaged beyond recognition.
But yeah, this is more so for your information... I took another drive from work (Same unit, Lacie) and it does the same thing. If a song stalls during import, I just play a song thats far from that one (so track 1 if it's track 8...) and it'll jump around a bit, but it'll get past the block.
Do you often see it stalling when it reaches a glitch on a disc with other drives?
Re: Changing Rip Speed
sorry, i left out the word "NO" in my previous message, LOL, i have corrected it so it reads correctly now: "there is NO public API way to control the speed of the ripping". sorry for the confusion.
kJams just asks for the track's bits. the drive itself does all that crazy speed up slow down speed back up stuff, kjams has NO idea that this is even happening, it just gets the bits.
i do not often see it stall, cuz i have only brand new discs.
kJams just asks for the track's bits. the drive itself does all that crazy speed up slow down speed back up stuff, kjams has NO idea that this is even happening, it just gets the bits.
i do not often see it stall, cuz i have only brand new discs.
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*laughs* THAT makes more sense... Fair enough..
Yeah new discs seem to be fine... However uh, some of these discs are well... 13 or so years old and have been well used. So not a BIG surprise. Hopefully I don't lose too many songs in this conversion.
Thanks for the info though =)
Yeah new discs seem to be fine... However uh, some of these discs are well... 13 or so years old and have been well used. So not a BIG surprise. Hopefully I don't lose too many songs in this conversion.
Thanks for the info though =)
Re: Changing Rip Speed
and thanks for that very clever way of faking it out!