RE: cdex and scratches
I'm playing them in winamp. It's not on every song though. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdex and scratches
What should the sectors be set for starting and ending time and what should the spinup speed be? Sharon - Original Message - From: Bobcat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 22:00:31 -0600 Subject: Re: cdex and scratches CDEX has options for extraction that should take care of clicks at the beginning and end of tracks. They are: Start and end offset (sectors). Look under the CD drive tab of Cdex configuration. You might also want to change the spinup speed. ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdex and scratches
I have no idea what values you would need sharon. I think it is a matter of reading the manual and help files and experimenting with your particular drive. - Original Message - From: sharon hamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cdex and scratches What should the sectors be set for starting and ending time and what should the spinup speed be? Sharon ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdex and scratches
Just to add to this thread. Looking over the CDEX manual, it appears the track offset parameter that is the first edit box in the CDEX window should be used for fine tuning track start. It is defaulted at zero but can be incremented with each increment equating to a 75th of a second. Although this could be used to fine tune where CDEX determines the start of the track, I think it would be quicker to rip and edit later for the number of times you need to do this. It would be interesting to see if any of the paid for rippers can do a better job but I'd assume that this issue is with individual CD's and suspect that even the paid for rippers would need some manual fine tune for the odd track here and there? Many of the cases where there's a click or scratch are where tracks actually merge into each other on the source CD. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 11:19 AM Subject: Re: cdex and scratches I don't believe that ripping a track at a time would resolve this minor irritation with CDEX and it would be more trouble than it's worth. To put things into perspective, I get about one example of a click or scratch at the beginning or end of a track for every 3 or 4 CD's ripped so it's not really a big deal to trim it off. I normally review the ripped tracks with Winamp by starting the music in that folder and then using alt + R to move me to within 5 seconds of each track's end thus allowing me to review the end and start of each track and only trim those that have a click or scratch. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Adrian Beech [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:21 AM Subject: RE: cdex and scratches Would saving the tracks as WAV's to the hard drive first fix the problem? Perhaps you could convert one track at time from WAV to MP3? AB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharon Hamm Sent: Sunday, 8 August 2004 5:17 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: cdex and scratches Hello. I'm trying to rip my cd's to mp3's on my hard drive. Sometimes it will have a little scratch sound at the beginning of a song on the cd. I don't know how to get it out of there. Is there something I need to change in cdex? I suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sharon ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 1.815 (20040718) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System. http://www.nod32.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I was using CDEX, I never experienced this problem, I've seen it but not for ages and only one ripper I ever owned gave me the problem. I'm sure that paid rippers will display this problem too! if the drive paramaters are not set correctly or are incompatible in some way. Unless I'm very wrong, each CD-ROM/CD-RW drive has its own offset values so you'd have to find out what they are and I'm glad that CD ripping software is allowing the entry of these valuses as it makes for accurate ripping. In the case of EAC (Exact Audio Copy) you can make a test CD to dertermine these values or use a CD marked in the EAC CD database, many pre-recorded CD'S are lsited. At 11:36 AM 8/08/2004 +0100, you wrote: Just to add to this thread. Looking over the CDEX manual, it appears the track offset parameter that is the first edit box in the CDEX window should be used for fine tuning track start. It is defaulted at zero but can be incremented with each increment equating to a 75th of a second. Although this could be used to fine tune where CDEX determines the start of the track, I think it would be quicker to rip and edit later for the number of times you need to do this. It would be interesting to see if any of the paid for rippers can do a better job but I'd assume that this issue is with individual CD's and suspect that even the paid for rippers would need some manual fine tune for the odd track here and there? Many of the cases where there's a click or scratch are where tracks actually merge into each other on the source CD. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kevin Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 11:19 AM Subject: Re: cdex and scratches I don't believe that ripping a track at a time would resolve this minor irritation with CDEX and it would be more trouble than it's worth. To put things into perspective, I get about one example of a click or scratch at the beginning or end of a track for every 3 or 4 CD's ripped so it's not really a big deal to trim it off. I normally review the ripped tracks with Winamp by starting the music in that folder and then using alt + R to move me to within 5 seconds of each track's end thus allowing me to review the end and start of each track and only trim those that have a click or scratch. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Adrian Beech [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'PC audio discussion list. ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:21 AM Subject: RE: cdex and scratches Would saving the tracks as WAV's to the hard drive first fix the problem? Perhaps you could convert one track at time from WAV to MP3? AB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharon Hamm Sent: Sunday, 8 August 2004 5:17 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: cdex and scratches Hello. I'm trying to rip my cd's to mp3's on my hard drive. Sometimes it will have a little scratch sound at the beginning of a song on the cd. I don't know how to get it out of there. Is there something I need to change in cdex? I suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sharon ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NOD32 1.815 (20040718) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System. http://www.nod32.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.3 Comment: Dane Trethowan, a client of TFT-BBS run by Gordon Smith iQA/AwUBQRYFZilBPqY64aUBEQKe2QCfZAiQeUymqrvT+HPgzDbWyyXgPgQAoLf+ /LWT7rRwgjADoyAokjIv9g7a =rmdN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdex and scratches
Hi Sharon. This is fairly common and that scratch sound can appear at the start of a track or at the end. I think it's caused by the encoder not being able to make a completely clean cut between the track beginning or track end. I use a program called MP3TRIM to clean up my ripped tracks. It's shareware and comes in a few flavours. The freeware version is fully functional but will only let you clean up tracks less than 5MB in size, the personal version can be purchased for about $20 and will let you clean up tracks up to 25MB and the Pro version will allow you to use certain batch functions as well as having no size limits on files that can be processed. The program is fairly accessible but does need some JAWS cursor work. Basically, you sample the beginning and end of each file where you have this problem and trim away the number of frames that will remove the sound. You can also fade in and fade out to clean up those tracks ripped from live concert recordings. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Sharon Hamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 8:17 PM Subject: cdex and scratches Hello. I'm trying to rip my cd's to mp3's on my hard drive. Sometimes it will have a little scratch sound at the beginning of a song on the cd. I don't know how to get it out of there. Is there something I need to change in cdex? I suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sharon ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdex and scratches
hi, What are you playing these mp3's with? With winamp, I notice a click at the biginning of each selection that I play. Sounds like the click you hear when surfing. I've wondered how to stop that click myself. Rusty At 03:17 PM 8/7/2004, Sharon Hamm spake thusly:- Hello. I'm trying to rip my cd's to mp3's on my hard drive. Sometimes it will have a little scratch sound at the beginning of a song on the cd. I don't know how to get it out of there. Is there something I need to change in cdex? I suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sharon ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information age offers something for anybody: 'Survivor' for simpletons, 'The Sopranos' for sophisticates. The problem is that it offers nothing for everybody. (Terry Teachout) Check out my site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi group. I also have cdex, but every time I rtry to use it, Jaws shuts down. What am I doing wrong? Fran - Original Message - From: russell Bourgoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 3:36 PM Subject: Re: cdex and scratches hi, What are you playing these mp3's with? With winamp, I notice a click at the biginning of each selection that I play. Sounds like the click you hear when surfing. I've wondered how to stop that click myself. Rusty At 03:17 PM 8/7/2004, Sharon Hamm spake thusly:- Hello. I'm trying to rip my cd's to mp3's on my hard drive. Sometimes it will have a little scratch sound at the beginning of a song on the cd. I don't know how to get it out of there. Is there something I need to change in cdex? I suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sharon ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information age offers something for anybody: 'Survivor' for simpletons, 'The Sopranos' for sophisticates. The problem is that it offers nothing for everybody. (Terry Teachout) Check out my site at: http://www.thesoundzone.com ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
