Ripping in FLAC with my laptop

I've recently switched to ripping my CDs in FLAC using my laptop, as it's a lot faster, although i've found the drive has different settings than my desktop one.
I'm ripping in secure mode, the results sound fine, but it seems both drives have 'use accurate stream' enabled, although my laptop one does not auto detect 'defeat audio cache', where as my PC drive does, and instead it detects 'make use of C2 pointers', which my PC drive dosn't.

I just wanted to check that these settings will still give me the best results, before I started ripping my entire collection

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Also, on both my laptop and PC, I am unable to rip the Narnia LWW soundtrack. If I use secure it takes like 3 hours and I get sync errors, and if I use burst it rips, but the tracks are crazy, skipping all over the place non-stop. Odd.

I notice the CD has one of those stupid data files in the tracklist. Maybe that has something to do with it.


Edit - 3 drives i've tried ripping it on now. Secure and Burst both give crazy skipping tracks.

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Well the laptop ripping and disk problem were meant as two different questions I was just wondering whether not having the 'defeat audio cache' enabled for my laptop drive would affect the quality of any of my CD rips. I auto detected and that's what the results were. I make sure the offsets are correct for each drive

As for the Narnia CD, it has a few light scratches, but it seems OK. I think it might be to do with the data track. When it loads up on the PC it opens some lame media player and plays it, so EAC must be picking up that program/file in the tracklist. I seem to remember having the same problem with another CD, with it picking up a data track, although I think that one ripped OK, it just took hours. This one however rips the disk but every track is crazy.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

Ok, try disabling Autorun. Hold down shift while inserting the CD into the drive. Then try ripping again to see if it makes any difference.

This worked! Thanks so much, and for the other advice too

It's funny how if you forget to hold shift for like a split second during it's load it goes back to a crazy rip. You have to hold it literally the second the tray closes. Pesky autorun, or whatever it was.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Might decrease quality. I suggest an MP3 rip right from the CD.

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