On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen<a...@develooper.com> wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:19, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >> I've just discovered that iTunes will merrily rip CDs with errors and >> make no mention of this. Is there a way to have iTunes bail or retry >> on rip error? > > I've no idea what it does, but there's a "Use error-correction on Audio CDs" > checkbox in the preferences.
Whatever it does, it allows glitches & pops in the output. I should've said, I already had that checked. > I haven't tried it, but I looked at "Rip" and "Max" for my never-happening > re-encode-everything project: http://sbooth.org/Rip/ and > http://sbooth.org/Max/ Rip seems lossless only, at this point, afaict. I mailed the author requesting he put up some blurb on the differences. Max seems interesting - it uses cdparanoia and a couple of other rippers. It's pretty complex, and encoding to AAC is not obvious: you need to select MPEG 4 Audio rather than AAC (ADTS). And then you have to take a guess at what Quality: Low/.../Maximum means. Yes, it's a separate option from bitrate, and VBR... Annoyingly, Max doesn't seem to use Gracenote* out of the box, nor does it auto-complete based on existing titles (like iTunes) so ripping these uncommon CDs is going to be painful :-/ Paul > > > - ask > > -- > http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/ > > >