How can I copy mp3's of a scratched disc?

[Unfocused]

I've got a CD with mp3's. When it's in the drive, I can listen to them, ocassionally the track will skip in a few places, cause the CD is scratched. Now I want to copy those mp3's on my HDD, but it won't let me cause I get a CRC error. Is there any way (a program perhaps) to copy those mp3's on my HDD, so that they would simply skip in places where the CD could not be read because of the scratches, instead of not copy at all?

 

[JFry]

You can try this:
http://www.mp3-converter.com/cdex.htm
When you use it just turn the speed that it rips the mp3 way down and it may be able to save the file. It's worked for me in the past anyhoo.

 

[pomegranate]

Er, that's a ripping program. For audio CDs. This is a data-reading problem, nothing to do with audio or ripping or encoding at all, really.
Unfocussed, the only thing I can suggest is that you try using another CD drive.

 

[operative x]

Being a sound fx guy, i would use an audio program and change the microphone settings to "What U here" (this means it is recording sound created from your computer) and then start a new file at 44khz/stereo then play the song and record at the same time.

 

[Cole]

I've got a CD with mp3's. When it's in the drive, I can listen to them, ocassionally the track will skip in a few places, cause the CD is scratched. Now I want to copy those mp3's on my HDD, but it won't let me cause I get a CRC error. Is there any way (a program perhaps) to copy those mp3's on my HDD, so that they would simply skip in places where the CD could not be read because of the scratches, instead of not copy at all?

Copy them one at a time. Most of them should copy except maybe 1 or 2 of them because of the disc being scratched.

 

[giant384]

if you cant get them then pirate them there problem solved.

 

[Shasta]

How have none of you ever heard of "CD scratch repair kits" (about$5), or even most local video rental stores have those little machines that repair DVs and CDs. Sheesh.

 

[Unfocused]

Meh, I was hoping there would be some application able to copy the mp3's along with the skips and pauses in them.

 

[Cole]

Meh, I was hoping there would be some application able to copy the mp3's along with the skips and pauses in them.

The problem is actually reading the disc. It is full of thousands of cuts to tell if there is an 0 or 1 there. If there is a big scratch in the middle of it, then you can't really read those 0's and 1's. However what CD\Dvd-Rom Drive you have can make a big difference on readability and how well they can skip over such scratches.

I personally run most of my scratched discs on a nice $150 external DVD\CD-Drive(Can Write and Read DVD's\CD's). Reads all the horrible discs I throw at it.

 

[Unfocused]

The problem is actually reading the disc. It is full of thousands of cuts to tell if there is an 0 or 1 there. If there is a big scratch in the middle of it, then you can't really read those 0's and 1's.

Yeah, I know, that's why when the PC or stereo plays music from a CD and can't read a part of it it simply skips that part or starts repeating it until you skip a few seconds of the track yourself.

I'd like to copy mp3's so that in parts where the CD cannot be read, the mp3 would just skip further to a part than can be read (as if I was playing them from the CD directly). I thought it's possible.

 

[Shasta]

Sweet Jesus.

It can't read it because it is scratched.

It would cost you $5 get a repair kit to smooth the scratches.

Doing that would have solved your problem by now. You wouldn't be pissing around trying to work out how you can read scratched discs, or "skip" bad sectors.

FIX THE FU*KING SCRATCHES.

 

[Asus]

Have you tried to make a copy of the CD to another CD? If you could do that successfully without getting an error then you could copy the MP3s from the new CD easy. Or maybe try to create an image file first and then burn it.