World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive)

From: tim.mann_at_compaq.com <(tim.mann_at_compaq.com)>
Date: Thu Dec 7 20:27:37 2000

> One of my favourite CDs skips terribly on one track and
> it really pisses me off, especially when I'm supposed to be mellowing out.

If you have a CD-R drive, you could try making a copy. The CD-R drive
might be able to read past the skip (or it might not, but it's worth
a try). Use CD Paranoia on Linux to read the original; it tells you whether
it's getting errors, and does retries if so. A few of my CDs that have
problems in some of my audio players can be read fine in my CD-R drive,
and the copies play fine. Of course, if you're unlucky, you might have
an audio CD player that can't read CD-R's at all.

Tim Mann tim.mann_at_compaq.com http://www.tim-mann.org
Compaq Computer Corporation, Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Received on Thu Dec 07 2000 - 20:27:37 GMT

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