Ripping CDs

Whenever I rip a CD to my PC I always get this little "click" sound right at the beginning of the 1st track.  I guess I need some new software, any suggestions?

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Solution 1
Try another software

Solution 2
Turn of your PC speckers so you won\'t here the clicking sound

Solution 3
go into sounds in system and turn off the clicking sound when you open a new app or window.

Exact Audio Copy with the LAME VBR decoder is the best cd ripper on Earth.  No joke.  Here\'s a way to get it all up and running on your PC.

1.) Download Exact Audio Copy V0.9 prebeta 11 at http://www.exactaudiocopy.de
   - http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su0165/eac09pb11.zip
2.) Download LAME 3.89 at http://www.hot.ee/smpman/mp3/
3.) Extract EAC to C:\\Program Files\\EAC (Or wherever you want)
4.) Extract LAME to C:\\Program Files\\EAC\\LAME (Or wherever you put EAC ../LAME)
5.) Open EAC.
6.) Go to EAC : EAC Options;
   - Extraction: Put Error Recovery Quality on High
   - General: Check "On unknown CDs, automatically access online database
   - Filename: Select whatever naming scheme you would like.
7.) Go to EAC : Drive Options
   - Press OK
   - Extraction Method: click "Detect Read Features" followed by apply, and detect C2 Read Features, followed by Apply
   - Drive: Click "Autodetect read command now"
   - Offset / Speed: Click "Detect read sample offset correction"
   -Go back to Extraction Method and select Secure Mode.
8.) Go to EAC : Compression Options
   - External Compression:
      - Click "Use external program for compression"
      - Parameter passing scheme, select "LAME MP3 Encoder"
      - Program, including path, used for compression: Put your LAME.exe that you extracted under step 2 in this box
      - Under Additional command line options, type "--r3mix -b128" without quotes.  Leave the bitrate box alone, it is ignored when passed to the LAME encoder
9.) Go to EAC : freedb/ Database options
   - Put your email address in the empty box.


All set, now just select all the audio on the cd you want to rip, right click, and hit "Copy selected tracks"

Enjoy.

I always found it a lot easier to send it to a repair shop then having to buy a whole new one:D

I\'ll 2nd Ryu\'s suggestione`

Yep me too.  The EAC & LAME/RazorLame combo is simply the best, better than Fraunhofer, and it\'s free!!  My Sugar Ray CD was scratched to hell, but EAC brought it back to life with another copy I made.

http://www.r3mix.net has lots of info on ripping and all the proggies you\'d need as well.  I\'d watch out for some of the things said there though, the authors are kinda liberal.  They think CD audio is "perfect" with no need of DVD-A or SACD.  And they think MP3 audio makes CD PCM tracks useless (for other than ripping).

yeah right :nerd:

Thanks, for the suggestions.  Turns out it was just my crappy ass CD-ROM drive.  When I rip them through my burner there\'s no click sound.

And after I rip them EAC/LAME the birate constantly changes when I\'m playing them back.

Yah, but that\'s just a result of the burn process.  Trust me, the sound is as crisp as you\'ll get into an mp3 at least for the time being.

You can use other gateways for lame, I use RazorLame.  Somewhere in options there should be an option to turn VBR (Variable Bit Rate) off.

Suggestions:

<128 kbit, 44, use Joint Stereo Mode, always use VBR, with min set at 2/3 the set bitrate.

128 kbit, 44, use Joint Stereo Mode if it is a fairly un-stereo track.  Use VBR for music that has mixed music (sometimes lots of stuff, sometimes just, say, drums).

<128 kbit, 44, use Full Stereo Mode, don\'t use VBR any more.

I do everything these days at 192/44 full stereo, no VBR.  The fact that a 5 min song is 8 megs doesn\'t bother me as much as that would have in the past.  Most of us have a lot of HDD space these days, as it\'s so damn cheap.

Pros/cons:

VBR
Can make some songs sound better, if there are parts that could benefit from more bandwidth, and parts that wouldn\'t.
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Can make songs that have a fairly constant, high amount of \'sound\' fluctuate sometimes, you may notice it, because of how the algorithm will break the song up into parts.

JointStereo/Stereo
JointStereo combines most of the left and right tracks into a center channel with more bandwidth anytime the left and right stereo separation is small.  This means higher sound quality, but less stereo separation.  
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Stereo is the older method, but if you are encoding high bitrate MP3, you should stick to this method.  Songs with a lot of stereo separation loose a lot with the Lame\'s JS algorithm (test it on Radiohead songs, for example).