Program to find "dropouts" on (scratched) CD's??
- Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Jan 10, 2007
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Does anyone think it's possible to write a program to see if an audio book on CD has "dropouts" on it? Reason I ask it that I've been getting some books on CD from a library for my mother to listen to, & because others have borrowed & returned them previously, (as opposed to buying each one new), they can be variously scratched, which sometimes causes lots of dropouts of the spoken story, which isn't wonderful. So I thought maybe I could write/find a program that could analyze the CD as it reads it, looking for dropouts, so if there were I could say, "never mind, don't bother listening to this one", but I can't see how to tell the difference between a dropout and a pause or moment of silence. Anybody got any ideas? (And it could be useful if I could do this to mp3 tracks, too.) Dan Moyer