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Ah yeah, the link kinda left that open as well

I have bought three separate copies of a CD release, and every one fails to rip, with two separate drives. Could it be something about this release itself and not just the discs?

aidalgol: it could be. Small-size runs (unmastered, just burned from a PC or industrially, but not mastered) are more likely to have problems ripping.

Especially if the problems show up toward the end of the disc.

They're all over the disc. And this looks professionally done: https://www.discogs.com/release/877082-The-Donn...

Pretty odd that something of that vintage would have trouble ripping. Are They CR-R?

They looked pressed to me.

the fact that it's enhanced is suggestive that might be the issue

what software are you using to rip?

rubyripper

btw : < vzctr> Stage names don't get sorted second name first, right?

👀

my understanding was that stage names that are like real names get sorted like names

but that might be an incorrect understanding

aidalgol: silver look, or slightly bluish?

(It does seem likely mastered, but you know those punks with their DIY…)

Could just be a bad master, or you got 3 scratched-up copies. Try polishing them? IDK.

crism: Silver, and it has Warner Music Group logo on the centre ring.

So under that convention it would be "Lamar, Kendrick" for sure, and "Ace Hood" for sure, but probably "Juelz Santana", "Action Bronson", and I assume "Rick Ross"

Man, I can *not* manage to get a good rip of an Enhanced CD.

I can't even *play* it with VLC.

I mean, it can play, but it's *really* scratchy.

Rick Ross is named after a real person

aidalgol, https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/797289

seems to be related to CD pressed by Warner Music Manufacturing Europe

Oh, wow... Thanks for finding that!

warner was in a joint venture with sony bmg in 2002

you might have a rootkit

try linux

Oh, I'm already on Linux. :D

hmm

that's weird then

@aidalgol, I guess try another ripping software and see what happens. There looks to be a perfect rip of that exact release on a *record scratch* website so it should be possible? Weird though

@Erin, sorry about that! I was just making sure edits weren't going to fail because of retaliatory voting or whatever and it doesn't let me approve without leaving a note :O

heh

i just found it amusing

well, after the heart attack 8b

finish this big 5 code test i was nervous about [even though it ended up being easy], it processes, i finally look up, and i see the gmail icon with 15 in the corner

haha great timing! congrats on the 'easy' test

well

...iono

interviews with big5 or faang or whatever you want to call rich people who run the world ... are annoying and exhausting and have never ended well for me

like, apparently having a google interviewer speechless due to some cleverness wont get you hired

i had github tell me "you passed the whole set, congratulations ... there were only two people at all that did ... so we're hiring the other one" -.-

or a ... lets just say big consulting company ... rejected me because i dont have experience with ... something i definitely have experience with [and they didnt ask]

i very much would like this particular one to lead to something for a lot of reasons ... but ... it's hard to get your hopes up with big companies

well, there's ... more concerns but this is not the place

hard to know what's going on behind the scenes, I feel like often places already have someone earmarked but are required to interview

best of luck anyway!

aerozol: I've even tried EAC, and it couldn't do it. I'm suspicious of those rips I'm finding.

Really interesting! I reckon the EAC forums (or similar) will give you more useful info

Since people on MB aren't really pro at ripping (as far as I know!)

Most of the big companies use feedback from multiple interviewers to decide who to hire. As long as there are no major red flags, you'll keep getting interviews for the role. Once they have feedback from 4-6 employees, they review and send the packet to a hiring committee who say yay/nay.

You're as much in the hands of the interviewers presenting a good case to hire you than anything. If they don't provide a good argument, you aren't getting hired. :(

i still feel like "this person found a solution 3000 candidates and 200 employees missed" is a pretty compelling thing >.>

aerozol: people of mb are totes pro at ripping ™ (idk I've seen discussions in this very chan about rippers etc "EAC" "cdparanoia")

i feelt dumb sayimg I use like itunes/wmp

I mean you shouldn't using those so :P

but yeah there's probably some pros hanging out!! I should never underestimate the wide swathe of nerdery that MB caters to :O

p.s. good night all

ಠ_ಠ "you shouldn't using those"

i should be using exactly whateverthefuck tool i want ot use, thnaks

suggestions for "played by" as a credit? just "performer"?

Probably, if nothing else is known

CatQuest: Except those ones > < jk jk

aidalgol: CDs have a very thin top layer with label stuff etc. it might be possible that the label side is damaged, while the bottom looks clean

yeah, the actual data on a CD is in the top layer, right under the printed label.

other than that, if they are indeed copy protected, it should be shown somewhere with a label/sticker or a missing compact disc logo

(on DVDs the data is in the middle sandwiched between two thin plastic layers, and on blu-ray the data layer is on the bottom of the disc)

DVDs made the right choice :D

if you've ever heard of some manufacturer selling a "blu-spec cd", that just means they made the CD using the new harder lacquer material developed for protecting the bottom of blu-ray disks from scratching.

no audio difference, might be marginally less vulnerable to scratches on the top of the disc :)

who buys CDs today? :>

... me? :)

anyway, if you are on windows and have a proper drive for audio extraction like some 15 year old plextor drives, you can try something like https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator...

huh. interesting, both the plextor drives i have are on that list :) all the audio cds i have rip using normal tools tho.

kepstin: the most amusing thing about shm-cd, blu-spec CD etc is they're actually more brittle than normal CDs

and the SHM-SACDs have a green label at the top, taking the sharpie-round-disc-rim myth to the extreme

makes sense, it's a material which is designed to maintain shape of the smaller pits/lands of the bluray format, so harder/less flexible might be the tradeoff for that.

well, there's only negatives here because they are more expensive and brittle, with no discernible difference in the data on the thing

i think i might have 1 or 2 shm-cds, but that's only because the albums in question weren't available on standard cd formats.

kepstin: well, that tool was created for other purposes, but it is possible to use it to copy audio CDs aswell: http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=CD_Dumpi...

usually an image gets created and you can use something like isobuster or a virtual drive to do the ripping - or just manually add a wave header :D

if you use EAC and that works fine for you, no need for DIC

Hi Folks, trying to add an album and it says 'You must enter a title and select an artist for every track.' Titles are added, all Artist entries are light grey other than 1 which has green background

As a new release in to musicbrainz that is

G0d: the green background means that you have assigned a valid artist from the database. Is it a various artist release?

No album featuring others in colaboration

Are you importing the release using a userscript or adding it manually?

Trying manually through the site

OK, well using a userscript will save you a lot of time

Anyway, on the "Release Information" tab, you have entered "Gerry Driver" right?

(in the artist field)

Yeh also green

OK, go to the "Tracklist tab" and click the Edit button next to the artist column

You need each artist field in the tracklist tab to have a green background

Ahh

Are you adding featuring artist credits for each track?

Yeh, I've fixed them all now and that is now submitted, thanks

can you give me a link to the release so I can check it? :)