Ripping woes

Well it hasn’t exactly been the most fun of days in the world of troubleshooting. I bought a bunch of used CDs recently, and decided that I needed to rip them to my new machine. I started on the process, but then three of the new discs didn’t rip. They just sat there. I put the discs in an older computer, and they ripped just fine. I then decided to try them again on the new machine. They ripped incredibly slowly, but they worked. However, they skipped all over the place, but the rips on the old machine didn’t. I concluded that I have a bad optical drive.

However, I just noticed something. My new machine has version 2.1 of Asunder, and my former machine has 2.0. I tried downgrading to 2.0 on my new machine, and the CDs ripped just fine with no noticeable skips. There was one minor one that I don’t think I heard on the older machine, but that could have been due to a multitude of other factors.

After these trials, I believe that the issue may stem from this line in the changelog:

3 Jan 2011 – 2.1
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– No longer passing -Y and -Z options to cdparanoia, for better quality rips. This was reported to freeze on badly scratched disks, but perhaps the cause was different.

I will likely file a bug with the developer of the application regarding this situation.