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Stuttering MP3s - what the heck?
InAmberClad
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Just throwing this out there incase anyone has had a similar problem. I've been searching for an answer online for nearly a year now, and I'm at my wits end. Maybe my google fu is weak, maybe i just can't define the problem well enough. anyway, here goes.
I consume vast quantities of audiobooks, both driving to work, sitting in my kids bedroom at night getting him to sleep, and getting myself to sleep sometimes. So i buy a lot. Where I can, i buy them on audible so i can download them straight to my mp3 player... happy days. However i do pick a lot up on cd when i see a good price, and since I mainly listen to unabridged ones we're talking 17 odd discs most of the time. I don't own a cd player (other than my pc, 360 etc) so I have to rip them to my pc and put them on my mp3 player. Simple enough.
however,
every time i copy a disc to the hard drive i end up with tracks that stutter. I've tried windows media player, winamp, musicmatch and several different programs that claim to just copy the stuff straight off with no luck.
it never happens in the same place twice, but always near the end of the cd, about 80% of the way through, every time. always track 10 or 11 of 13 . what you end up with is sentences that sounds like...
if it should be this : "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
what you get is "the qui qui qui qui qui qui qui qui ck ck ck ck ck ck ck br br br br br br brlazy dog"
of course, it always manages to happen with incredibly important plot points, "the killer is none other than mu mu mu mu mu mu th th th th th th la la la laeveryone gasped in shock"
I just can't get to the bottom of it. I've updated the firmware on my dvd drive, it does everything else absolutely fine. it's driving me nuts, the cds will play just fine, but everytime i copy one it gets to about 80% and starts revving up like a biker, and the program sticks at whatever percentage it's on for about 4 or 5 minutes, then suddenly completes, and the files from then on are full of stuttering.
could this be caused by the cd drive dying? time for a new one? i'm running vista if that makes any difference. Even software that claims to copy music off the most scratched up discs won't copy it without stuttering, and anyway, the discs are brand new from amazon etc.
thanks for any insights you guys might have!
I consume vast quantities of audiobooks, both driving to work, sitting in my kids bedroom at night getting him to sleep, and getting myself to sleep sometimes. So i buy a lot. Where I can, i buy them on audible so i can download them straight to my mp3 player... happy days. However i do pick a lot up on cd when i see a good price, and since I mainly listen to unabridged ones we're talking 17 odd discs most of the time. I don't own a cd player (other than my pc, 360 etc) so I have to rip them to my pc and put them on my mp3 player. Simple enough.
however,
every time i copy a disc to the hard drive i end up with tracks that stutter. I've tried windows media player, winamp, musicmatch and several different programs that claim to just copy the stuff straight off with no luck.
it never happens in the same place twice, but always near the end of the cd, about 80% of the way through, every time. always track 10 or 11 of 13 . what you end up with is sentences that sounds like...
if it should be this : "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
what you get is "the qui qui qui qui qui qui qui qui ck ck ck ck ck ck ck br br br br br br brlazy dog"
of course, it always manages to happen with incredibly important plot points, "the killer is none other than mu mu mu mu mu mu th th th th th th la la la laeveryone gasped in shock"
I just can't get to the bottom of it. I've updated the firmware on my dvd drive, it does everything else absolutely fine. it's driving me nuts, the cds will play just fine, but everytime i copy one it gets to about 80% and starts revving up like a biker, and the program sticks at whatever percentage it's on for about 4 or 5 minutes, then suddenly completes, and the files from then on are full of stuttering.
could this be caused by the cd drive dying? time for a new one? i'm running vista if that makes any difference. Even software that claims to copy music off the most scratched up discs won't copy it without stuttering, and anyway, the discs are brand new from amazon etc.
thanks for any insights you guys might have!
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I can't fathom it being anything else.
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