Sensitivity to Bad Music CD

Dear Win7ers:

I recently moved to Windows 7 because of my Windows XP system
dying. There are some things that I have not gotten to my
satisfaction yet with Windows 7.

One of these is CD playback. I have a CD (my first) that has a
track with a bad area. When played on my XP system, I would get some
garble for a bit, but the system would recover. On my 7 system, the
same CD causes my system to lock up, and the only way that I have
found that consistently ends the lock-up is to remove the CD from the
drive.

I play CDs using Windows Media Player.

What is causing the problem? What do you recommend to deal with
it?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:30:48 -0700, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

I recently moved to Windows 7 because of my Windows XP system
dying. There are some things that I have not gotten to my
satisfaction yet with Windows 7.

One of these is CD playback. I have a CD (my first) that has a
track with a bad area. When played on my XP system, I would get some
garble for a bit, but the system would recover. On my 7 system, the
same CD causes my system to lock up, and the only way that I have
found that consistently ends the lock-up is to remove the CD from the
drive.

I play CDs using Windows Media Player.

What is causing the problem? What do you recommend to deal with
it?

The difference is the CD drive. As a temp fix, bring the old drive to the
new system to verify that the previous behavior (garble) is restored. At
that point, I would either extract the music tracks and burn a new CD, or
just replace the CD.

If you decide to extract the music tracks, I recommend EAC.
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/inde...rces/download/

There are other options, as well, such as downloading a copy of the 'bad'
track and using it to replace the 'bad' track when you burn a new copy of
the CD.

--

Char Jackson

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Dear Win7ers:

I recently moved to Windows 7 because of my Windows XP system
dying. There are some things that I have not gotten to my
satisfaction yet with Windows 7.

One of these is CD playback. I have a CD (my first) that has a
track with a bad area. When played on my XP system, I would get some
garble for a bit, but the system would recover. On my 7 system, the
same CD causes my system to lock up, and the only way that I have
found that consistently ends the lock-up is to remove the CD from the
drive.

I play CDs using Windows Media Player.

What is causing the problem? What do you recommend to deal with
it?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Using old system rip the good tracks off the cd. Use them to burn a new
cd. The bad track you can likely replace by finding a copy of that
specific song on the Internet so could "splice" that back in to the new
burned copy. Ripping tracks to "wav" file format and using those to burn
a new disk should keep quality good enough for most peoples tastes.

Difference being able to play the disk garbing the bad area instead of
having system hang is almost certainly the drive and not the version of
Windows being used. Want to confirm that then simply remove the old
drive from the old system and install it into the new system and then
try to play the disk again.

On 06/04/2015 21:56, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:30:48 -0700, Gene Wirchenko
wrote:

Dear Win7ers:

I recently moved to Windows 7 because of my Windows XP system
dying. There are some things that I have not gotten to my
satisfaction yet with Windows 7.

One of these is CD playback. I have a CD (my first) that has a
track with a bad area. When played on my XP system, I would get some
garble for a bit, but the system would recover. On my 7 system, the
same CD causes my system to lock up, and the only way that I have
found that consistently ends the lock-up is to remove the CD from the
drive.

I play CDs using Windows Media Player.

What is causing the problem? What do you recommend to deal with
it?

I would say the real problem is the defective disc, as you mentioned.
It is possible your old system had a player which had *better error
correction.* Quality and capabilities of optical disc players vary
widely amongst manufacturers and models.

+1

Bolding mine
--
choro
*****

I think this is a problem
associated with the operating system.

Have you considered ripping the disc and burning a new one?

On 4/6/2015 5:12 PM, pjp wrote:
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says...

Dear Win7ers:

I recently moved to Windows 7 because of my Windows XP system
dying. There are some things that I have not gotten to my
satisfaction yet with Windows 7.

One of these is CD playback. I have a CD (my first) that has a
track with a bad area. When played on my XP system, I would get some
garble for a bit, but the system would recover. On my 7 system, the
same CD causes my system to lock up, and the only way that I have
found that consistently ends the lock-up is to remove the CD from the
drive.

I play CDs using Windows Media Player.

What is causing the problem? What do you recommend to deal with
it?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Using old system rip the good tracks off the cd. Use them to burn a new
cd. The bad track you can likely replace by finding a copy of that
specific song on the Internet so could "splice" that back in to the new
burned copy. Ripping tracks to "wav" file format and using those to burn
a new disk should keep quality good enough for most peoples tastes.

Difference being able to play the disk garbing the bad area instead of
having system hang is almost certainly the drive and not the version of
Windows being used. Want to confirm that then simply remove the old
drive from the old system and install it into the new system and then
try to play the disk again.

And, sometimes I've found that when you copy a CD it will do many
re-reads of a possibly bad area and eventually, just maybe, recover the
data.