[KLUG Members] Ripping

[Jamie McCarthy]

kc8cie@yahoo.com (Tim Smith) writes:

> If I play a cd with the cdplayer, I get perfect sound.  If I rip
> a wave, It almost sounds like it's repeating each little section
> three times, similar to a skip.  My sound card "seems" to be
> working alright.  It's on-board sound and it's an Aureal 3D in a
> Compaq machine.  I can't find that name in the sndconfig program,
> but it seems to work as a SoundBlaster.  Is this the fault of my
> sound chip, or does it sound like I have other issues?

> I still ended up with a wav file that sounded kind of like it was
> repeating it's self/skipping.  I've tried different drives, and
> different disks which play fine with the cdplayer, but still no
> luck with the wav files.

I had a similar problem recently -- on playback, not rip/encode.  My
current ripping machine has onboard sound, no soundcard, and I
haven't gotten around to configuring it properly.  Last time I tried
XMMS, I got similar audio to what you're describing -- sounds kind of
like skipping.  I don't know if it was exactly three times repeating,
but I remember it would repeat short sections and then skip ahead and
do the same thing.

But the problem isn't on ripping, it's on playback.  These same MP3s,
ripped/encoded on this same computer, play fine on other computers.

Try playing those WAV files (and MP3s) on another computer.  If you
like, email one to me and I'll give it a listen here.  (Under 5 MB
please!!)

Playing a CD with the CD player almost certainly uses the CD player's
DAC, i.e., from the CD player to your speakers the signal is analog,
so broken software wouldn't affect it.  (The Mac is the only computer
I know of that plays CDs with the computer's DAC, routing bits
through the system software instead of just connecting wires
together.  At least, last I heard.)  So just because a CD plays fine
in that computer, doesn't mean sound is configured properly.