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Topic: EAC Static, WAVs not seekable (Read 2040 times) previous topic - next topic
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EAC Static, WAVs not seekable

i'm getting this intermittent static noise for a few tracks on one cd (sting - all this time) and on all the tracks for another (five for fighting - the battle for everything). not just that, on my most recent batch of rips, almost all of the WAV tracks aren't seekable. i'm smelling some sort of copy protection, but it's definitely not sunncomm--i've already gotten rid of their stuff before. EAC's (or maybe the WAV encoder thing or something) acting a bit weird in general. any ideas?

I'll try investigating a bit more tomorrow and i'll see what happens.

thanks!

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alright, i've figured out that the disc is protected by the [apparantly rare] safeaudio cd protection. seems that the only way to get this is to somehow directly record the the tracks through an audio, not data stream from the cd. ugh i can't believe they don't even write that it's copy protected on the cd label!
anyone know a good application to directly record the audio stream from the cd drive? some high quality method? this cd protection is one of those crappy ones that introduce extra errors into the cd data, so eac (with all it's error checking) isn't gonna work at all
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alright, i've got it ripped using disk writer and the multiple output plugin for winamp. this copy protection is pretty crappy--i can actually hear some pops due to the errors they deliberately introduce into the audio.
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