Foobar rip to flac problems

[Deleted member 108165]

Gents

Sorry if this has been covered before but I'm looking for some guidance/assistance.

I'm in the process of ripping my CD's to flac using foobar as ripper and media player, everything is moving along nicely, but slowly. I've found my PC CD drive in the accuraterip database and have set the correct offset, however, every CD I have ripped so far (100+) has converted with minor problems. Is this correct or am I doing something wrong?

At least two CD's have encountered major problems with some tracks not converted at all - I have had to resort to ripping these to WAV in WMP and then converting them to flac with foobar. All CD's are originals and pristine - no heavy scratches whatsoever.

 

[cheeseboy]

might be that your drive is slighty faulty. the other thing is to try removing the offset in fubar given that wmp will not use this.

Also, as a general rule, when ripping softwrare does rip, it tends to rip to wav, then convert to flac, it's doesn't rip as flac, so that also may point to either a faulty drive or the accurip getting in the way. However, if they accurip is getting in the way, again that might point to the drive being faulty.

Another option to try is to limit the drive speed when ripping if you haven't already.

 

[Deleted member 108165]

Thanks cheeseboy. I didn't even consider it could be the drive as the pc is only about 1 year old, I have tried limiting the speed and ripping on paranoid setting but no joy. I do have a spare external samsung drive that I'll connect-up and try, maybe I'll have more success with it, plus the drive is in the accuraterip database so I can set the correct offset. Cheers for your advice

 

[cheeseboy]

Thanks cheeseboy. I didn't even consider it could be the drive as the pc is only about 1 year old, I have tried limiting the speed and ripping on paranoid setting but no joy. I do have a spare external samsung drive that I'll connect-up and try, maybe I'll have more success with it, plus the drive is in the accuraterip database so I can set the correct offset. Cheers for your advice

no worries, hope the external drive works better

 

[Deleted member 108165]

Well, connected up the samsung drive and tried to rip one of the major problem cd's using foobar again. Just as with the internal drive no way would it convert the entire cd, I tried all possible variations of speed and ripping security; there seems to be a definite problem with the final track.

I was on the point of giving up and thinking of disabling the rip security setting when I decided to give EAC a go at it and.....success! Ok, it took EAC an hour to rip it and most of this time was spent on the last track, but it did convert the entire cd.

Strangely when I first set-up EAC today it tested both drives and reported that my internal drive should be used as the default drive because it is the better of the two. Gonna give EAC some more trials with some easier cd's and see what happens.

 

[cheeseboy]

hate to say it, but sounds like some of the cd's might be damaged if you getting similar errors on both drives

 

[Overdose]

CD production quality can vary. Some CDs have the data layer sandwiched in the disc, others have it on top as a coating and this can be scratched of if it is not handled carefully.

On a few other (rare) situations, I have found that there may be a problem with a particular batch of CDs or even a particular issue, as I have replaced a defective CD with a new one, only to find that the very same track was difficult to rip.

It is worth checking some of the suspect rips to see if any artifacts are present before putting the CDs into storage, you might still need to re-rip them.

Another thing to consider is copy protection. Some software is better at ripping this than others, the open source solutions usually fare better.

 

[Deleted member 108165]

Cheers fella's really appreciate your input here Currently the two cd's I have problems with are one bought new in 1990 and the second one is brand new this year, (I'm in the process of getting a new replacement for the 1990 cd). Crazy thing is that both of these problematic cd's play without a hitch on my hifi cd player and my pc drive(s).

Guess I'll start re-ripping my cd collection at the beginning again, oh joy! I'll do a comparison between foobar and eac as the reported faults with eac seemed nowhere near as regular as foobar, even though they both use the same accuraterip database,(foobar was basically saying all my discs had minor faults).

Cheers again.

 

[cheeseboy]

Cheers fella's really appreciate your input here Currently the two cd's I have problems with are one bought new in 1990 and the second one is brand new this year, (I'm in the process of getting a new replacement for the 1990 cd). Crazy thing is that both of these problematic cd's play without a hitch on my hifi cd player and my pc drive(s).

Guess I'll start re-ripping my cd collection at the beginning again, oh joy! I'll do a comparison between foobar and eac as the reported faults with eac seemed nowhere near as regular as foobar, even though they both use the same accuraterip database,(foobar was basically saying all my discs had minor faults).

Cheers again.

Playback is much more forgiving than trying to get the drive to properly rip the data, hence why when you play, it's probably not noticed, but trying to rip is a different matter. If you didn't want to replace the cd's, might be worth seeing if any of your local record shops or friends have one of those disc doctor things to try.

Personally i tend to use eac to rip as it's generally considered one of the best bits of software. Foobar is good, but like you, I've noticed better (not audible, but just general usage/less read error results) results with eac.

 

[Deleted member 108165]

Thanks cheeseboy. Had a long re-ripping session over the weekend with eac and all I can say is that it's much better than foobar; so much easier to understand the report logs, and not a single problem reported so far. I'm ripping to wav with eac and then converting to flac with foobar, (plus tagging). Foobar is still a great media player though so won't be ditching this anytime soon. Cheers for your support and assitance

 

[pauln]

Thanks cheeseboy. Had a long re-ripping session over the weekend with eac and all I can say is that it's much better than foobar; so much easier to understand the report logs, and not a single problem reported so far. I'm ripping to wav with eac and then converting to flac with foobar, (plus tagging). Foobar is still a great media player though so won't be ditching this anytime soon. Cheers for your support and assitance

You can of course rip straight to flac with EAC... If you want. Would save time.

 

[Deleted member 108165]

I'm a little new to eac but yes discovered that option last weekend, very much appreciated, thank you. With digital storage so cheap these days I now tend to rip three file types for storage: wav, flac, mp3; for various uses. Foobar converts from a perfect eac wav rip in a matter of seconds and I am very happy with the results from both pieces of software. EAC is a very powerful tool and I am liking it a great deal, but when it comes to tagging foobar seems more reliable even though both use freedb tagging database, strange.

I did write this reply last week but somehow I triggered the spam filter so sorry for the late reply.