I bought a CD set off of eBay (Led Zeppelin boxed set... great price!) The seller's description noted that some CDs were "lightly" scratched but still "playable." I figured, OK, that should be fine.
WRONG!
The first two CDs refuse to be ripped to my hard drive through iTunes. In fact, they basically crash the program. Most unfortunate.
So, what do I do now besides e-mailing the seller for being such a shithead? Is iTunes more sensitive? Would I have better luck ripping to MP3s with some other program and then simply copy paste the files to my iTunes library? Or, do those CD scratch fixer thingies really work?
Help me please, oh great seer of LJ. I am but a lowly servant begging for a smidgen of your great intelligence.
- Current Mood:
grumpy
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I have a manual CD/DVD de-scratcher that I paid I think $29 for about five years ago, and it's saved my patootie numerous times and earned it's keep many times over.
If you don't want to own your own disk polisher, you probably can find someone near you who will has one who will help.
Exact Audio Copy
CDDA Paranoia
Both of them will, given enough time, read just about any CD that it is even slightly physically possible to read, and transcribe the bits onto your hard drive. Sadly, neither of them have a Mac version, so you'll need windows for the former, and linux for the latter.
(actually there have been a couple of attempt to port paranoia to the mac, but I don't think any of them are well-maintained)
http://tinyurl.com/ybro36
Good luck!
And then, yeah, there's the "download someone else's rip" method. I own both LZ boxed sets (I assume we're talking about the studio ones, I think there are a couple live ones too) and if you don't hook up with tgrey, feel free to hit me up... or just hit Soulseek or Limewire since LZ is not exactly rare.
In either case, don't neg the ebay user unless you actually go through the whole complaint process first and come up empty handed, because you will get a retaliatory neg and no one needs that.
This in no way should rule out getting the missing items from an alternate source but lets not build false legal precepts here.
I would manually ban you, but it would appear that in itself is useless, because you will simply post comments anonomously, like you frequently do on other journals that have you banned. So, barring banning anonymous comments altogether, something I loathe to do because I do have non-LJ people who read me from time to time, I seem to be in a quandary.
I ask again - do NOT post in my journal, please.
You do not care for me. I do not care for you. I don't understand why you make comments on my journal in spite of these facts.
I am banning you now, Dov. Please stay away from me and mine.
I bite you.
And not in the good and fun ways.
*smooches*