Itunes Error Correction

I hate to revive a thread that is like over a year old, but you should know that I experienced a similar problem ripping discs with iTunes. At first I thought my CD drive was busted so I had it replaced. No change. I wound up updating all of my system drivers, including video card and motherboard chipset and that solved the problem.

This particular system had an Nvidia chipset and video card.

My customers are reporting the iTunes even with correction on is not as good as EAC on a PC. Try it and decide for yourself.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

I'll also chime that there are ripping programs out there, such as EAC, which will give you better sounding rips than Itunes.

Steve N.,

Funny you should mention EAC, because I just started using it a few days ago. I can't say with certainty that EAC sounds better than iTunes with correction, but I do know that in secure mode, discs that are in not so great shape that generate EAC error reports (the red boxes light up) sound dramatically better.

One disc I had was in such bad shape that EAC actually read a substantial part of it at .2x speed to extract the data. (secure mode, c2, no buffering) iTunes on the other hand was reading it at 2x-4x speed. The EAC version sounded cleaner, quieter with greater instrument separation and low level detail.

If you use a program called "iTunesEncode" you can actually configure EAC to perform the actual rip, automatically launch iTunes, use iTunes' encoders to change the file to any format supported by iTunes (.aiff, .alac) and automatically import the disc into your iTunes library, tags and metadata in tact. I also find that files tagged by EAC with ID3 tags display more information on my Squeezebox than files ripped by iTunes. Once configured the entire ripping process takes two clicks.

Happy Holidays all!