I am trying to rip many of my masters, which were stored on CDR, to digital, but I am encountering a problem. Before the days when I thought about that I might primarily need to use them in a computer, I made paper disc-sized labels for many discs- a painstaking process I now regret. It seems my Dell Inspiron 1520's burner does not like the paper labels. These discs play fine - they even play fine in the computer, I think - but they won't rip. I've tried EAC, CDex, even iTunes. Nothing will rip the whole disc - it always snags and makes a loud clicking noise halfway through.
Since the discs play perfectly fine, my only thoughts are a) to try another computer or b) to get an audio CD duplicator and copy the discs to new CDRs, then rip those CDRs. Any other ideas? Any thoughts on cheap CD dupe devices? The cheapest I've seen is $120 at Amazon.
In some cases, I may be able to get the original DATs, but not likely - heck, the whole point of doing this was to not be using fragile, easily deteriorated DATs!