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Re: Program to find "dropouts" on (scratched) CD's??

• Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> Jan 10, 2007
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Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> 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.)
> 

Why not just rip and re-burn the CD?  If it does that without error, the newly
burned version should be fine.  If the dropouts are caused by unreadable areas,
then you'll get an error when trying to rip (assuming you don't set your ripper
to ignore read errors)...