Music problems
 

I recently had to copy my CDs to a new laptop due to : oldlaptopdisaster : It's a netbook so it doesn't have a CD drive, but I got hold of an external CD drive to do the copying. Every single disc I had copied just fine except for my Smiths albums. The sound quality is atrocious, it's so garbled and static-y that the music is barely discernable in b4 music taste diss. I'm not a tech head, I just about get by, so I'm pretty damn confused. The CDs are almost pristine, and since I copied them to my old laptop without complaint I fail to see why I should have trouble now. Any ideas?

Probably an unlucky case of your drive not liking your discs. Using a different brand of drive might help you transfer things over, if you haven't done it already?

I had a problem like that but not the same on my old computer. The CD drive was corrupted I think and whenever you tried to play/burn a song to the computer, it would sound horrible, and you'd have this horrible background noise going on all through it. :/

Oh man, that sucks :( I can't really afford another one. It copies other CDs fine though, just dislikes the Smiths. I'm honestly thinking it might be worth just torrenting the albums since I've already bought them, just can't access them!

Does the disc play fine on other computers / cd players?

You could always try using a program like PowerISO to create an image file of the disc, mount that and then try ripping the virtual image to wav or mp3. It sounds like your disc may be scratched and/or damaged and your ripping program isn't liking it.

It works well enough. I used one of the albums in a CD player recently (ie. after being unable to copy it) and it played with no problems. Would you still recommend I make an image file and try it that way? I was thinking of taking the old copied files off my broken laptop and just transferring them across with a USB pen or even just my mp3 player, but I won't be able to do that for a month or so. I'm still bloody confused about why my new laptop/CD drive won't copy a perfectly functional disc that works/will copy elsewhere though.