I'm trying to rip a cd with itunes, and the disc hits the last three tracks and then starts a "clicking noise" same on all drives. Clonyxxl comes up with nothing... I can copy with clonecd but it takes hours and still doesnt help me rip it to itunes.
The problem is whatever protection is on there, when I hit the last part of the cd, it makes the laser go crazy.
1)Do you know if the disc has any extra data other than audio? I remember my pokemon 2.B.A. master cd had some video that messed up the rip. What I did to fix this was rip it and then edited the songs that we're screwed up in an audio editor. 2)Or does it have a watermark on it? I read at some time that watermarks we're on discs and somebody covered it with a felt-tip marker and it ripped fine afterwards. 3)Maybe some kind of DRM is causing it to fail... I don't think this is the problem because the rip works until the last three tracks. There's a plethora of software out there to fix this though. Is this a brand new cd or one of the older ones? I don't know exactly what the clicking sound you described is but keep in mind that the disc needs to be balanced, so no D-skin. I hope the disc itself isn't making the sound. Also are all the drives you have newer or older drives? because you know wear and tear on the motor may be having issues with getting to the outside of the disc. So it was lucky number 3 and clonyxxl didn't help... You think it's the laser? The laser probably moves enough to make a clicking sound if it just goes back and forth changing it's focus. So is there an option in clonyxxl to force the laser the stop focusing? By the way what disc is it? maybe the disc is using some prototype drm or worse a rootkit.
1. has only audio data 2. It looks like a protection ring It shows up as an audio only cd, no hidden files. It does the same thing in all my burners. The noise is thelaser trying to read that psrt of the cd. The drive is less than two months old. The other ones are older. Same thing, all drives.
Have you got an old CD walkman somewhere you can just take the line-out feed and pump it into audacity and make an mp3 from that. Quality won't be as good obviously, but it will be done.
or even better, use an TOSLink SPD-IF/optical connection to copy the music digitally from the player, with no loss =) Even the PS2/3 offer such a digital-out (via optical)
Clone it with CloneCD to a file, then mount the image with Daemon Tools -- and then use an audio ripper on the fake mounted disc.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ I used this program for converting/ripping practically all of my CD collection onto my PC. It has never given me a problem. I have an older version that does not require a renewal of the mp3 codec. That program also uses tons of plugins to convert to other types of audio compression files.
