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I've been having that issue lately with my Apple USB Super Drive and iTunes/Apple Music. It will be working fine for weeks, even months, then suddenly I'm noticing random bits of static in a playback of a newly ripped disc. The disc will play fine on its own, and if I re-rip those cues sometimes they're fine and sometimes they have different glitches, it's completely unpredictable and really irritating.
My more computer-savvy friends have suggested some possible reasons (perhaps the power flow is being interrupted by another device plugged into the computer), but I'm taking some time away from CD playing/ripping to finally play/rip the many LPs I've bought in the last several months. Watchmen, Mandalorian, Picard...
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If you're referring to digital "pops" in the recording (that's on both disc and digital), those are sometimes referred to as digital impulse noises. I think of them as the equivalent of a "pop" on a vinyl record. It's a permanent artifact that results from the engineer not monitoring the audio levels closely enough. I find them highly annoying, and thankfully have software that can remove them, but it's very rare for the boutique labels to let even one slip in. Those guys are good.
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Jul 28, 2021 - 11:03 PM
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fmfan1
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This may or may not be it, but I had that problem with my old computer's CD-ROM drive. Maybe it would glitch 5% of the time when playing or ripping a CD, consistently at the same moment every time. Even though those CDs would play fine on my dedicated CD player, it wasn't necessarily my computer drive's fault. I had software that would check for CD faults, and indeed, the CDs would have (if memory serves) C2 errors in the exact places where the static bursts and other noises would occur (which tended to be near the end of the CD). The error was in the manufacturing. My new computer and drive play and rip MOST of these discs fine, but a few discs still have the same problems on the new drive as well.
To make the issue even more bizarre, in some cases the error noises would disappear when I listened through headphones but were there when I listened through the computer speakers.
I know how disappointing these gltiches can be. My old computer went through periods where STREAMING music would skip every few minutes. I was told it was my anti-virus program, the RAM, uncommon settings deep in the computer, but then after a few months, the problem stopped on its own.
My iPod has random micro-skips while connected directly to MY car's USB (could be 3 times in the course of 5 minutes or 0 times over the course of an hour), but it plays fine in my wife's car. My wife's iPOD also skips in my car but not hers. Then again, when I connect my cellphone with a USB in my car, the music plays perfectly, as it does through Bluetooth, or when I'm listening to music on Spotify or XM Radio.
When it works, technology is great. When it doesn't, there are 50 explanations and the solution to your problem will usually be a unique 51st case. Good luck!
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There are CDs where there are recording glitches, yes, but then those are on the actual disc, possibly on the source material.
When I rip a CD, I check it with accurate Accurate Rip, which checks if the rip is a bit perfect copy of the CD, so I don't have problems with glitches just on rips.
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If you're referring to digital "pops" in the recording (that's on both disc and digital), those are sometimes referred to as digital impulse noises. I think of them as the equivalent of a "pop" on a vinyl record. It's a permanent artifact that results from the engineer not monitoring the audio levels closely enough. I find them highly annoying, and thankfully have software that can remove them, but it's very rare for the boutique labels to let even one slip in. Those guys are good.
What software removes them?
I use iZotope RX. Spectral Repair tool specifically. I've been a customer of theirs from the beginning (2008 or so). It looks like they offer a free trial if you want to check it out.
https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html
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First I made sure I wasn't doing anything else on the computer (I'd accidentally paused ripping LPs due to other tasks), but that hadn't helped. Then I tried turning off all other apps but that didn't help.
Since my SuperDrive gets its power directly from the Mac, a friend suggested unplugging other items like my backup drive, which could be interrupting the power flow. I'm hoping that does the trick, don't want to have to exchange drives. Considering I've managed to successfully rip something like 95 days of music over the years, mostly from CDs, it's annoying this is happening now.
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