I am not sure if anyone in here can offer any advice but I thought I would ask just as well as I have sort of made this my new home... :jester

I have a little over 600 cd's and since my new Alpine CDA-7998 plays MP3's I decided to get a nice cd burner and installed musicjukebox pro. I copied a bunch of tunes and burned them as MP3's on my discs. I then noticed that they skipped in various places.... it is quite annoying to be jamming to, let's say Back in Black and it is going along then you here "I'm ba...ba...ba...black..." not into listening to say Ozzy or Bruce Dickinson rapping if you know what I mean.. :lol:

I know that alot of my cd's have a few scratches in them but was wondering if there was a way to use software to clean up the mp3 files while still on my hard drive? I noticed that the songs skip when on the hard drive without being burned onto the cd.

Last weekend I moved one of our computers out to the entertainment area and hooked it up. Ran a network cable under the house and have it hooked up to the home theatre. I have dishnetwork and all of the digital music channels. I have been saving a few hours of tunes to burn to mp3 soon. I thought that would be a way to avoid the skipping.

Any help or a good point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

 

There's your problem. Whatever the song sounds like on your computer is what it'll sound like in your car. The songs are skipping in the same spot with both your computer and your car stereo, right? Are you ripping songs off CDs you already have and encoding them as MP3 or downloading them? If you are ripping them I would try different software. If you are downloading then try to get a working copy. :cheers:


[Modified by ZippoMan, 12:03 PM 8/30/2002]

 

Yep, I knew that the copies were messed up once I listened to them on my computer. That is why I hope that there is a software program that can clean up the skips or something. Is there a better piece of software for doing this than musicmatch? I do not need recording studio level of equipment though..hehe... :hat

I am probably going to go mainly with the music that I record off of the satellite music.

 

Since I started burning using my iMac and iTunes I haven't had the same skipping problems.

 

I found CDEX to be the best for encoding, and its FREE...

http://download.com.com/3000-2140-10138504.html?tag=lst-0-1
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[Modified by KylePatrick, 4:17 PM 8/30/2002]

 

Nope there isn't really any software that will clean up the MP3s, I suppose you could do it manually with a WAV editing program but it's not worth the time :smash: . Go to http://www.mp3.com, click on Mp3 Software choose your OS then click on Rippers. There will be a list of shareware and freeware applications that can take tracks from your CD and save them as MP3.

 

Zippoman is right, it's tough to get pops and especially skips out of the song. You really should just try to download another copy or clean the disk you ripped from and maybe rip the song from another program. Audiograbber works well for me.