Topic: CD transfer help!!!

[charles]

I'm having a problem transfering some music onto my hard drive. I've never had this problem before. The files in question were put on disc by the following transfer method:  DAT>Tascam DA-20>Marantz CDR630. When I load the discs in the drive, my computer won't read them. I've had this problem before somewhat but have always at least been able to rip them off the discs using Nero. My computer shows the files being on the disc but cannot open them......I've tried opening with Nero, WMPlayer, Soundforge 7, Wavelab 5.....nothing will open it. The discs in question do play without any problems in a regular CD player. I'm in desperate need of a solution to this problem and will be extremely grateful for any help anyone has to offer. Thanks. Charles.

[charles]

Where do I get EAC?

[dnsacks]

www.exactaudiocopy.de

[charles]

Thanks man. +T I'll give it a try.

[charles]

Allright....I got it going. So far so good. I'll let you know once the extraction is done.

[charles]

OK...I extracted a file....30 minutes worth of music.....entire wave contains no music........flat. I don't get this. What the hell is going on.

[dnsacks]

did you follow the various instructions/setup procedures for EAC?  Especially the drive detection stuff?

[charles]

I just tried another disc that I know is good and it worked no problem. I'm getting more and more confused and frustrated. This just doesn't make sense.

[charles]

Plays fine in a cd player.

[charles]

  Wouldn't that be nice.  Now here's something strange.....I just tried another disc from this batch (these are from my 8 show YMSB run) and it ripped fine.......same source...same transfer...etc......justs doesn't seem to make sense.

[charles]

I don't know how that would have hapened. Shit. I guess I'll just keep playing with it until all of my hair is gone.

[charles]

Thanks for the help man.

[charles]

Allright....still no progress here. Is there anyone out there who has encountered this problem before? I've got about 7 discs that play fine in a regular player...but cannot be read by my computer. EAC will transfer the files to the hard drive.....but the resulting WAV file has no music on it. I've got another half dozen or so discs from the same transfer method and same source that EAC transfered no problem. Like I said before, I could use any help I can get.

[dnsacks]

Charles -- try using eac's "copy range" command to copy the disk and, when the copy range dialog box pops up, change the beginning of the range from "0" to 1,000 -- cds burned on a standalone sometimes have "issues" at the very beginning of the disk and using the methodology above causes eac to skip the very beginning.  If this works, and you can tell that the very beginning of the recording is missing and necessary, try again but change 1,000 to 100.

Darrin

[charles]

Thanks. I'll give it a try. +T

[bluegrass_brad]

It could be that the CD wasnt finalized before you got it.  With standalones the disc remains "open" so that it can be written to repeatedly (so you can record something, stop the burner, record something else, stop the burner, record something else).  After you are totally done recording you than finalize the disc, which makes it readable in other players, burners, etc.  I have had this problem before and it sounds similar to what you are experiancing.  I ended up putting it in a tascam CDRW-700 and was able to finalize it with it.  Then it was fine. good luck.

[charles]

You're the man dnsacks!!! You got a few more +T's coming. Thanks.

[charles]

Yeah....thanks for the input Brad.....I went through that a couple of weeks ago and finally figured  it out.

Man....I'm psyched.....now I can finally get the 30 minute radio show split omnis transfered.

[dnsacks]

GLAD to hear it worked.

+T backatchya