I have no idea if my PowerBook CD drive is out of alignment or picky, or if my DVD burner is better on the error correction. But now I have an alternate that seems to work when my PowerBook drive doesn't!
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I had a stack of CDs that my PowerBook just didn't want to read (most of them had fairly ugly scratches on them), so I couldn't bring the contents into iTunes. Well I happened to gaze over at my IDE DVD burner that is in a external FireWire enclosure and thought I would give it a shot. After hooking it up, low and behold, every one of my CDs that was having problems is now imported into my iTunes collection. What is even better is that I consistently get ripping speeds of 13x, where my internal CD drive would be anywhere from 1.2x to 16x.
I have no idea if my PowerBook CD drive is out of alignment or picky, or if my DVD burner is better on the error correction. But now I have an alternate that seems to work when my PowerBook drive doesn't!
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Rip stubborn CDs via a secondary drive
The newest Switchfoot CD would lock up at about 3/4 of the way through a rip on my new 1.67 GHz 15" PB. I flipped it over to my MDD G4 tower that had a flashed DVR-107 in it, and it ripped just fine. No idea why, except that the CD had the label on it that said "This disc does not conform to CD audio specifications and may not play in all devices." The flashed Pioneer probably didn't hiccup on the "intentionally corrupted" disc like the PB drive did.
Rip stubborn CDs via a secondary drive
In general, build-in drives in Macs are not very good at reading problematic CDs. I always use my external CD-burner to read large amounts of data from CDs or for copying (with Toast). I once tryed to copy a Win-98SE installer CD from my Cube's internal (stock) CD/DVD-rom drive to my external burner - after more than two hours it ended with "could not verify… - use with caution…" - choosing the burner as source produced a perfect copy whitin 10 minutes…
Rip stubborn CDs via a secondary drive
Slot-loading drives are very picky. The older CD-RW drive in my tower will read plenty of discs that my PB combo drive won't. It's just part of life.
Rip stubborn CDs via a secondary drive
The laser in your DVD burner is a probably a lot stronger, it being newer and capable of higher speeds, and has better focus, it being designed for better data compression. Its output may also be a different frequency (color).
Rip stubborn CDs via a secondary drive
You're on the right track... The DVD laser is somewhat stronger and at a different frequency. Most importantly, however, is the fact that the error correction on a DVD drive is so much better (consider the fact that a DVD has so much more data on it, so a tiny scratch will affect a great deal more information).
Rip stubborn CDs via a secondary drive
I too have noticed a few "weird" things about external and internal drives/burners...
Rip stubborn CDs via a secondary drive
Drive reliability for "bad" CDs
Here's my experience regarding drive reliability for "bad" CDs (from a related hint I'm submitting right now):
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