can't get clean mp3/wma files from my drive AARG!

Get a niffy program called CDEX, it is free and does an
excellent job ripping your CD's to MP3's, make sure you
make them at least stereo quality.


-----Original Message-----
Using a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with a fixed-bay 8x CD-
RW/DVD-ROM drive (a
Samsung CDRW/DVD SN-308B). I've had this computer over
a year and have
*never* been able to get totally clean copies of my
music collection, with
either .mp3 format in MusicMatch Jukebox Plus OR .wma
format in Windows
Media Series 9.

I would really like to be able to copy all my music onto
this computer and
put the CDs in storage forever. Windows media copies
the files fine but
there are (lots of) intermittent blips/scratchy sounds.
MMJB is even more
problematic-- most of the time it just displays an error
message 20 seconds
into the encoding and has to quit. When it does
completely encode a CD,
most of the time there are similar little cuts in the
music. A real drag.

Reading/burning data cds and burning music cds is no
problem, which leads me
to think that there is no problem with the drive
itself. I'm hoping that's
the case anyway because like I say, it's fixed-bay so
it's here for good.
System runs fine otherwise, Pentium III, 1 GHz, 256 MB
RAM. A software
problem? Both players also work fine otherwise. Just
copying the damn CDs
to the hard drive is the problem. Thanks for any help
y'all.


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