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

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Jan 11, 2007
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Andy Serpa wrote:
> 
> 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?
> > <snip>
>> > 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)...

Andy,

Thanks for the suggestion; I'd already done that, and the dropouts seemed 
worse (more) on the ripped/reburned CD than on the original.  But I'll have
to try and check about "ignoring read errors", 'cause the ripping didn't 
indicate any errors at all.  I was just using Windows Media Player to rip.

I also saw a suggestion somewhere on the web to make sure CD player was
set up to do error correction, but couldn't find anywhere on the CD player
properties anything that would set up "error correction for the player.

Was hoping I could write/find/use a program to scan the CDs to see if they
had dropouts, but that might not be doable, I guess.

Dan